How a late night TV show inspired John Lennon’s only solo No. 1 and how Elton John helped turn it into a chart topping hit.

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...

Towards the end of Lennon’s time with the Beatles, he released a side project in collaboration with Yoko Ono, Two Virgins. The album proved to be controversial, not only because Lennon was creating ...

John Lennon only issued seven solo albums in the 10 years after the Beatles broke up. The posthumously released Milk and Honey and Menlove Ave. made for a total of nine. With such a small sample size, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The disc is part of the massive rollout of reissued Lennon solo material that EMI recently prepared to commemorate what would have ...

His best-selling album, 1971's multi-platinum Imagine, was followed by the gold-selling Mind Games in 1973 and Walls and Bridges in 1974. Only 1972's newsy, overtly political Some Time in New York ...

We now continue with the songs of post-Beatles era Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr that did not make the top-10 of the Billboard charts during the ...

After The Beatles broke up in 1970, John Lennon went on to have an incredibly prolific solo career, releasing six studio albums in five years. However, in 1975, he decided to take a break from music, ...