When artists have been around long enough, there comes a point where they start critiquing their old work. Regardless of how much potential they had in their early years, it’s […]
Yoko Ono and John Lennon had a very public love story. They met while Lennon was still married to his first wife, Cynthia, and eventually began an affair. Ono said […]
From day one, John Lennon always wanted to make songs that sounded weird. The Beatles may have started life as a simple pop group who wrote material for the screaming […]
By late 1965, The Beatles had conquered the world. They’d done pretty much everything there was to do in the pop stratosphere and so decided to expand their musical horizons […]
In the broad scope of the Beatles‘ career, “Love Me Do” isn’t their most sophisticated. We can’t imagine that a band that was later able to play songs like “A […]
There are plenty of stories of songs John Lennon hated, but they’re usually written by others. Especially at the end of The Beatles, he was more than happy to dish […]
In 1968, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr took the friends, girlfriends, and wives of The Beatles to India. They had previously heard Maharishi Mahesh Yogi speak […]
Not only was John Lennon in likely the greatest rock group of all time, The Beatles, but he participated in one of the greatest songwriting partnerships of all time, too, […]
A story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. A good plot and established characters are vital elements. The perspective of the story is just as important. Is […]
The Beatles knew how to derive inspiration from the most unlikely places. A guru gave a lecture that inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write songs. Paul’s song appeared […]