A Beatles song reached No. 1 on Billboard, but its influence from rock and roll legend Chuck Berry later led to legal trouble ...

John Lennon, the mastermind behind Happy Xmas (War Is Over), created a Christmas classic with a powerful anti-war message.

How the Harlem Community Choir helped John Lennon and Yoko Ono turn “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” into a global message of peace ...

Lennon was clutching the tape of the final mix from this session as he and Ono stepped into a limo on the street outside the ...

The Beatles' John Lennon had tons of incomplete half songs that lingered in his head, which he would play around with in the recording studio, before quickly tiring of them ...

John Lennon's 1971 hit, "Imagine", helped him find the right approach for his iconic seasonal protest anthem, "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)".

NEW YORK -- Music fans in New York City and around the world are marking what would have been John Lennon's 80th birthday. Lennon was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England. He grew up to be one ...

The collaborative approach to the Beatles’ songwriting allowed John Lennon and Paul McCartney to bolster one another creatively, and it also opened the door for one musician to blame a song on another ...

John Lennon only issued seven solo albums in the 10 years after the Beatles broke up. The posthumously released Milk and Honey and Menlove Ave. made for a total of nine. With such a small sample size, ...

Plastic Ono Band was more than John Lennon‘s kiss-off to the Beatles. It was his demolition of everything the previous decade ...

In 1971, John Lennon released “How Do You Sleep?,” a scathing song about former bandmate Paul McCartney. McCartney wrote a dig about Lennon in the song “Too ...