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Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top ...
This Beatles song became an anthem for a whole generation, but John Lennon would later admit he didn't really know what he was talking about.
Paul McCartney certainly believes in magic. Behind The Beatles song that opened up McCartney's eyes—and sparked John Lennon's envy.
Ahead of a gig at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, the 80-year-old singer and songwriter looks back at some of his signature ...
Yet “lost albums” are embedded in music industry lore. Some were literally lost. Some remained unfinished or unreleased ...
Paul McCartney has revealed to fans that he is reminded of his two Beatles bandmates - John Lennon and George Harrison - when ...
John Lennon and Paul McCartney had a complicated relationship. McCartney listed all the reasons he loved Lennon in a letter worth thousands.
Together, the Beatles wrote some of the world’s most enduring love songs. John Lennon’s love letters, on the other hand, reveal a different, earthier type of poetry — and take a swipe at ...
John Lennon was no exception. In 1965, while The Beatles were constantly on the road, Lennon purchased a 15kg KB Discomatic jukebox - a portable record player he filled with 40 of his favourite 45s.
In between lyrics of peace, upbeat psychedelic tunes and love ballads, John Lennon’s discography features one experiment that stood out at the time. When writing his album John Lennon /Plastic ...
Ian Leslie’s new biography “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs” unpacks John Lennon and Paul McCartney's intense and complex relationship as Beatles.
Ian Leslie’s new biography “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs” (Celadon, 436 pp., out now) unpacks their intense and complicated relationship from their first meeting in 1957 to Lennon’s ...