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Rare photos of John Lennon, taken by girlfriend May Pang, on display in Sag Harbor
May Pang photographed The Beatles icon during an infamous yet productive period when he was separated from Yoko Ono.
John Peel’s signed Lennon LP could be yours – if you’ve got a spare £7,000
I just want to hear something I haven’t heard before,” the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel once said. His love of music would ...
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Paul McCartney Edited This Pointed Lyric Out of a Diss Track Directed Toward John Lennon
Paul McCartney allegedly had to edit a particularly spicy lyric in this "diss" track he wrote for his ex-bandmate, John ...
Who was the only musician to play on solo albums with all four Beatles?
While their triumph defied the odds, it was also because of those humble beginnings that they proved so transcendent. Their greatest strength, above all else, was that they were the very definition of ...
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On This Day in 1966, John Lennon Sparked One of the Biggest Beatles Controversies of Their Career
On July 29, 1966, comments that John Lennon made in the U.K. five months earlier caused one of the Beatles' biggest controversies in the U.S.
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The Beatles’ Backbone: How Many Songs Did John Lennon and Paul McCartney Actually Write Together?
The duo wrote together less and less. With that in mind, how many songs did Lennon and McCartney really write together?
'There were days where I felt I could never leave': Intimate images of 'the real Hotel California'
The most iconic stars of the 1970s flocked to Record Plant Studios. A new book offers a glimpse inside – and argues that The Eagles' time there inspired the US band's most famous song.