This is an excerpt from Yoko, a new biography about Yoko Ono from author David Sheff. It releases March 25 from Simon and ...

Lennon unleashed all of his negative energy towards his former bandmate, Paul McCartney, on a song called “How Do You Sleep”. From the title alone, one could guess this track is a scathing ...

The influence of Dylan, evidently, presiding over the sudden transition. It impacted John Lennon most of all. There was always deepness to the bespectacled Beatle. His childhood had been pitted with ...

While John Lennon had more than a few of his lyrics ... it was probably for the best to keep it as Lennon fans’ little secret. Any casual fan might flock to ‘Imagine’ or ‘Instant Karma,’ but they are ...

John David Washington collaborated with Samuel L. Jackson for the 2024 horror drama flick The Piano Lesson. The film was based on the namesake play from 1987, where Jackson played Boy Willie in Yale ...

At this point, calling any member of The Beatles ahead of their time feels redundant—especially John Lennon ... wasn’t just romantic but collaborative, too. Lennon was on record as saying that ...

The hushed, hymn-like ballad, with Flack’s graceful soprano afloat on a bed of soft strings and piano, topped the Billboard ... on the same floor as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who became a ...

But for John Lennon, it had already started. As a child, eccentric authors like Lewis Carroll fascinated Lennon. He spent much of his free time writing absurd poems that he modeled after Carroll ...

As a beginner on almost every instrument, the range of possible pieces can be limited which is not encouraging if you want to make progress. Fortunately, in the case of the Piano, there is a vast ...

Decades after his death, the details of John Lennon’s violent assassination in 1980 are well-known. Mark David Chapman approached Lennon twice outside the former Beatle’s apartment in the ...

Written by John Lennon, it follows a listless man who "doesn't have a point of view" and is going nowhere. Though the song was written in the third person, the lyrics reflected how John was ...

The murder of John Lennon remains one of the most infamous showbiz tragedies of all time. On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman fatally shot Lennon as he returned to his New York residence.