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 ...
A Beatles song reached No. 1 on Billboard, but its influence from rock and roll legend Chuck Berry later led to legal trouble ...
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, ...
The Liverpool, England-born rock band The Beatles remains perhaps both the best and most compelling rock group of all time. Not only were their songs incredible, but they also went through several ...
John Lennon‘s Double Fantasy will always have a complicated legacy. It was released to mixed reviews, but then became the last completed blockbuster album in his lifetime after the former Beatles star ...
John Lennon released Happy Xmas (War Is Over), the iconic anti-war Christmas song that continues to inspire peace and ...
We count on musicians to hold a mirror up to us. We want songs to reflect our inner-most thoughts–the ones we’re too afraid to say out loud. Not every musician is up to the task. Many skim the surface ...
The Beatles' John Lennon had tons of incomplete half songs that lingered in his head, which he would play around with in the recording studio, before quickly tiring of them ...
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 ...
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 — ...
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