John Lennon

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Kurt Cobain and The Beatles
"John Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle... Paul McCartney embarrasses me:" Why The Beatles meant so much to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and changed his life forever

By Paul Brannigan Published

Dave Grohl might be good friends with Paul McCartney, but for Kurt Cobain, John Lennon was the Beatle who truly mattered, or so he claimed

Interviews
John Lennon in 1971
The John Lennon albums you should definitely own

By Rob Hughes Published

Buying guide Iconic Beatle John Lennon's solo albums are full of timeless pop, but be prepared for avant-jazz, birdsong, politics and primal screaming too

Buying guide
Rick Nielsen studio portrait, plus John Lennon and Yoko Ono outside the Hit Factory in New York
"I wish I'd had Rick on Cold Turkey – Clapton choked up": What happened when John Lennon hired Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen to play on Double Fantasy

By Fraser Lewry Published

Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen has never hidden his admiration for The Beatles, and in 1980 he got a call from John Lennon himself

Albums
English singer Eric Burdon of The Animals posed in London in October 1968. (Photo by Ivan Keeman/Redferns)
"I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy

By Tom Poak Published

How John Lennon took an amazing x-rated story – told to him at an orgy – and turned it into part of a psychedelic masterpiece

Interviews
John Lennon in 1970
John Lennon screamed and he screamed, and he learned to feel his fear and pain

By Bill DeMain Published

"I am myself and I know why" - How John Lennon used primal therapy to create the Plastic Ono Band album

Bands & Artists
Freddie Mercury speaking in an interview
Freddie Mercury once revealed the two famous people, alive or dead, he'd most want to meet, and it'd make a hell of a dinner party

By Merlin Alderslade Published

One was a fellow music icon that Mercury idolised, the other was an infamous royal

Bands & Artists
John Lennon of the Beatles
A legal document signed by John Lennon on the day of his murder is up for auction

By Liz Scarlett Published

A letter that John Lennon signed on the day of his murder in 1980 is being auctioned tomorrow (October 5)

Bands & Artists
Foo Fighters
Watch Foo Fighters’ John Lennon/Van Halen mash-up

By Scott Munro Last updated

Foo Fighters sing Van Halen’s Jump along to the music of John Lennon’s Imagine at their show in Curitiba, Brazil

Bands & Artists
John Lennon and Dennis Elsas in front of a rack of albums
The day John Lennon became a disc jockey on New York's biggest radio station

By Bill DeMain Last updated

What happened when John Lennon showed up at WNEW-FM and broadcast for two hours – a show that's still talked about nearly 50 years later

Bands & Artists
E from Ells in front of Plastic Ono Band artwork
Why I ❤️ John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band, by Eels frontman E

By Brett Callwood Published

Enigmatic Eels frontman E reckons John Lennon was at his best when he dispensed with the hippy stuff, as on the “timeless” album Plastic Ono Band

Interviews
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