John Lennon pulled from multiple sources of inspiration for this dreamy 1965 track, "Girl", which he called one of his best.
John Lennon’s songwriting catalog with the Beatles was robust. His songs were characterized by off-kilter, heady lyrics (sometimes even nonsensical) that somehow spoke to audiences on a real level.
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 didn't have the big-bang decade-opening album like his former bandmate George Harrison. He didn't turn to more homespun music like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Instead, he simply bared ...
Revisiting comments made by The Beatles member John Lennon about his love for Buddy Holly and how he was able to sing the hit ...
When The Beatles formed in the early 1960s, John Lennon and Paul McCartney became the band's chief songwriters, but George ...
The Beatles wrote some of the most enduring songs of their generation, but John Lennon disliked many of them. Though Lennon spoke critically of many of Paul McCartney’s songs, he also had problems ...
In the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon told writer David Sheff that ...
Just because John Lennon was inThe Beatles doesn’t mean he loved every track they ever released. While many fans still sing along to the Fab Four’s biggest hits, Lennon was often his own harshest ...
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