When John Lennon died on December 8th, 1980, the musical landscape changed forever. Not least for his former partner, Paul McCartney.

John Lennon was fatally shot 45 years ago, but his legacy continues to live on. The former Beatles musician was shot and killed outside of his New York City apartment, the Dakota, on Dec. 8, 1980. He ...

Monday, Dec. 8, marks the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder. He died in New York City at the age of 40 when he was gunned down outside his apartment building. The man convicted of killing ...

Musical genius, cultural icon, voice of peace — all are synonymous with John Lennon, the prolific singer-songwriter of Beatles stardom who was taken from this world too soon. Few figures have left as ...

On Dec. 8, 1980, the world lost a cultural icon when John Lennon was shot and killed outside of his apartment in New York. It’s hard to believe 40 years have passed since Lennon’s untimely death at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the musicians who remember that tragic night well is Steven Gustafson, the bass player and a founding member of 10,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty-five years ago, on December 8, 1980, John Lennon was murdered outside his New York City home. Lennon worked alongside music ...

NEW YORK -- Music fans in New York City and around the world are marking what would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday. Lennon was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England. He grew up to be one ...

Tom Petty included this subtle tribute to John Lennon after tragedy struck in the middle of Petty recording his album 'Hard ...

Lennon was fatally shot outside of his New York City apartment in December 1980 Paul McCartney recalled the "horrific" moment he discovered John Lennon had died "It was just too crazy,” he writes said ...

Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono had a famously contentious relationship. While they are on much better terms now, they publicly clashed after The Beatles split. Still, Lennon’s sudden, shocking death in ...