Starting Over" is more than a retro homage—it’s harmonically rich and emotionally layered. Join us as we dive into the theory ...

Yoko Ono has always defied convention, but during a rare interview on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2007, she made an unexpected claim - that she felt John Lennon’s presence with her in ...

In The Beatles' early days, John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote songs in tandem. The two would write together at Paul's childhood home on Forthlin Road in Allerton or at John's Aunt Mimi's house ...

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Yoko, a new biography about Yoko Ono from author David Sheff. It releases March 25 from Simon and Schuster. Out of the entirety of Ed Fairburn’s 12-year career, ...

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But in the case of The Beatles, the latter certainly can’t be said. So it’s somewhat surprising that the John Lennon and Paul McCartney feud is given so much airtime. But maybe it’s because at the ...

“What is this? It’s me, Bob. [John’s] doing me!” Said Dylan when making his feelings on the album perfectly clear, “Even Sonny and Cher are doing me, but, fucking hell, I invented it.” Even Lennon ...

Of all the tired old clichés in the book that you can tag onto The Beatles, few ring as true as describing Paul McCartney and John Lennon as the quintessential old married couple. The duo were the ...

During 1966’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions, EMI Studios hired a Mk II to aid John ... Imagine sessions, but it was discovered unplayable due to the inner magnetic tapes becoming ...

John Lennon certainly had the pedigree to become ... but when listening to any of Lennon’s songs, there will always be a handful of chords that come out of nowhere and turn the song on its head, like ...

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