Latest about John Lennon
The shock rock icon was getting high when the news broke, and says Lennon’s death made musicians fear they could be next
Mercury dreamed up the song in the bath, then recorded the rhythm guitar and even attempted the solo before May had a chance to play on the track
The newly restored ‘Power to the People’ captures Lennon and Yoko Ono’s legendary 1972 Madison Square Garden shows, with a deluxe edition also including the ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ documentary.
The legendary session bass guitarist on asking Gilmour for a last-minute favor — plus his sessions with John Lennon, Robert Fripp, Steve Vai and Paul Simon
As Rubber Soul gets a Super Deluxe reissue, we revisit the surprising Elvis-inspired origins of Lennon’s darkest Beatles cut
McCartney reflects on Lennon’s difficult childhood, from an absent father to the death of his mother, and how those experiences left him with “a lot of anguish”
The Paul McCartney guitarist shares his hard-won advice on how to perform any Beatles song perfectly
The upcoming Rubber Soul box set reveals an early stage in the song’s development, as George Harrison’s curiosity about the sitar helped bring Indian classical music into the pop mainstream
