John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...

Back in 2010, a member of the Steve Hoffman forum said Lennon’s friend, the New York City photographer Bob Gruen, told him ...

John Lennon was a bit of an enigma. He was a creative genius, and his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney yielded some of the greatest songs of the 20th century. But as a man, he didn’t speak ...

In 1971, John Lennon released “How Do You Sleep?,” a scathing song about former bandmate Paul McCartney. McCartney wrote a dig about Lennon in the song “Too ...

Few songs from The Beatles’ later years hit quite as hard as “Don’t Let Me Down” from the Let It Be sessions in 1969. The song itself was released as a B-side that year but was ultimately not included ...

J ust because John Lennon was in The Beatles doesn’t mean he loved every track they ever released. While many fans still sing ...

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, ...

The Beatles' huge success took a toll on John Lennon, who expressed his pain through songs - he once said he missed ...

As collaborative as they were, John Lennon and Paul McCartney had their own styles. But what song should they have swapped?

Lennon saw “Across the Universe” as one of his best songs ever. He didn’t like the band’s recording of it, though. He blamed McCartney for this. “I think subconsciously sometimes we — I say ‘we,’ ...

David Bowie was in the closing stages of recording his Young Americans album when he decided to record a cover of The Beatles’ Across The Universe — primarily as a strategic move to entice John Lennon ...