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John Lennon Top 40 Solo Hits Ranked

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s ...
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, ...
Rare footage of John Lennon playing Carl Perkins’ “Honey Don’t” in 1971 in a New York City hotel room has premeired online; audio of the performance will appear in the upcoming ‘Power to the People’ ...
For all of the great songs that John Lennon had to collaborate on, he felt that not everyone needed the credit that he put ...
In 1968, The Beatles were going through a tough time. The year before had been full of incredible highs, such as the release of their iconic album Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band, and ...
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 ...
When Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday,” it was a new day for The Beatles — and especially for his relationship with John Lennon. The 1965 chart-topper signaled the beginning of a new creative chapter ...
John Lennon doesn't have to have warm feelings about his greatest hits, but some records should have never been revisited at all in his mind.