After John and Cynthia Lennon divorced, their relationship fell apart almost entirely. Their divorce was messy, and Lennon allowed his relationship with their shared son, Julian, grow increasingly distant. In […]
John Lennon and Paul McCartney spent years competing for control over The Beatles. While Lennon was initially the clear leader, McCartney took more and more control over the years. Cynthia […]
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon first met, McCartney made it his mission to impress the older boy. Lennon was already in a band, and McCartney was eager to show […]
John Lennon’s Icarian relationship with the music industry infamously soured during and immediately following his tenure with the Beatles, and his negative personal experiences led to an ominous warning he […]
After The Beatles split, tensions between the band members occasionally flared up. Despite the deep fraternal bond they shared during their meteoric rise to fame, the pressures of success and […]
Fans of The Beatles are now able to stay at a historic club that the belovedband performed some of their earliest gigs and honed their musical craft. The Casbah Coffee […]
The Beatles didn’t exactly have the luxury of rejecting songs. Thanks to their contract with EMI, the band were required to release two albums worth of material a year, not […]
Of all the drugs, celebrity status seems to be the most powerful and, hence, dangerous. In David Bowie’s 1975 song ‘Fame’, a collaboration with John Lennon, he discusses the titular […]
You might know the iconic black-and-white frame of The Beatles running down the street being chased by a stampede of young girls, but you know where it’s from? It is […]
They were the biggest band in the world, but they certainly weren’t above criticism. In fact, you could argue that The Beatles invited more scrutiny than their rock band peers. […]