The ‘Double Fantasy’ album, released three weeks before John Lennon’s passing, has become something of a requiem for John’s 40 years on earth. Five years in the making, Double Fantasy is ...
Dedicated fans of the legendary Beatles musician John Lennon converged on Strawberry Fields in Central Park Sunday to dance, sing and remember the icon’s tragic death 44 years ago. The ...
Countless musicians have offered sonic memorials to the late great John Lennon, and in 2012, Bob Dylan threw his hat in the ring with his own tribute to the former Beatle, “Roll On, John.” ...
Three years before writing his political anthem “Gimme Some Truth,” John Lennon had a stark warning for the public about politicians when he was interviewed at The National Theatre in 1968 ...
Playing off Lennon’s self-deprecating skepticism, John got him to agree to a bet: If the single reached #1 on the charts, Lennon had to promise to come play with him at one of his shows.
On 8 December 1980, a man named Mark David Chapman from Hawaii shot 40-year-old John Lennon as he was entering his apartment building – the Dakota - at close range, four times, with a ...
Learning to play guitar through those tracks was an act of communion, every strum bringing him closer to his father John Lennon, who was killed in December 1980. John was 40 and Sean was 5.
In many ways, “Cold Turkey” would be a test run for the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album in 1970, as it also included bassist Klaus Voorman and drummer Ringo Starr, and featured Lennon ...
The death of John Lennon on 8th December 1980 remains one of the most appalling moments in the long history of rock music. We've lost a lot of great musicians over the years, but it's rare for a ...
In the immediate aftermath, John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s interactions were limited to legal disputes ... I’m really attacking myself,” he said in the Imagine film. Thankfully, the pair would patch ...
The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was initially a creative free-for-all. The two worked incredibly closely within The Beatles, often “eyeball to eyeball”, and delivered a ...