John Lennon and Yoko Ono — under the moniker John & Yoko — hit the top 10 for the first time on a U.K.-based chart as “Happy ...
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 ...
John Lennon was so embarrassed by "Oh Yoko!", the closing track to 'Imagine', that he refused to release it as a single.
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, ...
John Lennon was a perfectionist of sorts, both as a solo artist and as a part of The Beatles. Like anyone with a perfectionist bone in their body, he outright criticized and slandered a few of his own ...
On August 30, 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band, backed by Elephant’s Memory, and joined by special guests, headlined two historic One to One Benefit Concerts at Madison Square Garden in ...
On John Lennon’s death anniversary, we look at how The Beatles kept his greatest songs alive after his short-lived return to music.
Lennon was clutching the tape of the final mix from this session as he and Ono stepped into a limo on the street outside the Record Plant. They had planned to go and eat at the Stage Deli, a ...
The new book "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs" traces the relationship between Lennon and McCartney through their tunes. When Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday,” it was a new day for The Beatles — ...
Relations between McCartney and Lennon had so degraded by the 1970s that they began expressing their frustrations through song. McCartney said Lennon’s political preaching began to grate on his nerves ...