War is hell, and great songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Alice's Restaurant" bring home that message more successfully than the rest.
You’ll find covers of all those numbers on this fine tribute album, whose all-female lineup includes Kelly Willis (“I Don’t Care”), Summer Dean (“Don’t Talk to Me about Men”), Melissa Carper (“Take Me ...
Back in 2010, a member of the Steve Hoffman forum said Lennon’s friend, the New York City photographer Bob Gruen, told him ...
John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman had wanted to murder The Beatles star two months before he killed him in December ...
Every October 9, the world remembers John Lennon not just as a Beatle ... From benefit concerts after tragedies to global broadcasts for peace, Imagine has become shorthand for hope. Its lyrics may be ...
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 Paul ...
Imagine there's a singing pope. It's easy if you've seen the resurfaced 2019 video of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle singing the 1971 John Lennon song. Tagle is among the favorites to be the next pope, ...
Yoko Ono – musician, artist, activist and the 92-year-old widow of the late John Lennon – took the brunt of the vitriol when The Beatles broke up in 1970, and details revealed in a new documentary ...
In 1972, the FBI tapped John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s phone at the request of Richard Nixon, who worried Lennon might undermine his reelection bid. The paranoid president couldn’t have anticipated that ...
Julia Baird, the half-sister of John Lennon, has some harsh words about those upcoming Beatles biopics. In an interview with The Telegraph, Baird made it clear that she’s not exactly crazy about the ...
John Lennon was a tough Liverpool teenager with a well-earned reputation—a rocker with a volatile streak—when he first encountered Paul McCartney. It was a summer day in 1957. John’s skiffle band the ...
In trying to deport a Palestinian anti-war activist, Mahmoud Khalil, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of another former Republican president. Richard Nixon tried to deport Beatles member John ...