Across the music landscape, no band is more significant than The Beatles, and perhaps there never will be. One of the main reasons for their incredibly vast and longstanding influence…
Yoko Ono co-wrote John Lennon‘s “Imagine,” one of the most popular anti-religious songs ever written. Despite this, she still spoke of The Beatles in supernatural terms, saying they were like…
The sophisticated Beatles fan can sometimes tell which Beatle wrote which song just by listening to it. The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” doesn’t sound like it was written by John Lennon…
A vital part of John Lennon’s story was his natural penchant for striking out on his own, treading a path far away from the confines of tradition. Of course, this…
John Lennon gave one of the most renowned Playboy interviews of all time. The interview is partly famous because the “Imagine” singer died shortly after giving it and partly because…
John Lennon wrote about love more than any other topic. While many of The Beatles’ early songs deal with love in a juvenile manner, the “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”…
One of The Beatles‘ songs feels like it’s about a drug that isn’t generally associated with the band: cocaine. John Lennon dismissed this interpretation. He also dismissed cocaine. John Lennon…
When an artist passes away before their time, they leave behind the question of what they would’ve created if their work was not curtailed. Would Kurt Cobain have gone fully…
When The Beatles broke up, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, were on decidedly bad terms. They were embroiled in a legal battle and spoke publicly about…
The songwriting relationship between Paul McCartney and John Lennon was one of the most prolific of all time. They began to write on a more individual basis as the 1960s…