just before Imagine arrived. After years of attempts in the early-'70s, Lennon ended up giving this song away to Johnny Winter for 1974's John Dawson Winter. A Lennon version wouldn't arrive until ...

John Lennon's "Imagine" may be the most celebrated protest anthem in history, but its true creative origins were long obscured by the song's author — or, more accurately, by one of its authors.

“Obviously, he’d written some amazing songs already, but John had still been ... In fact, Lennon’s obsession with “Yesterday” ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were each other’s favorite audience. That was plainly clear as the besotted Beatles bantered, ...