In 1965, Beatlemania was in full swing. That year, the Beatles played their monumental show at Shea Stadium, performed for the last time on the Ed Sullivan Show, and capped off the year by releasing ...

John Lennon pulled from multiple sources of inspiration for this dreamy 1965 track, "Girl", which he called one of his best.

In the later years of his career, John Lennon stopped wearing rose-tinted glasses when it came to the Beatles' songs — in particular, his own. He continued to hold a warm spot for some of the group's' ...

In addition to being expert songwriters, The Beatles also had a strong b.s. detector. They wrote nearly two dozen No. 1 hits in the United States but also walked away from music they knew wouldn’t ...

The new book "John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs" traces the relationship between Lennon and McCartney through their tunes. When Paul McCartney wrote “Yesterday,” it was a new day for The Beatles — ...

John Lennon and Bob Dylan were contemporaries and competitors. The folk singer was an icon to the former Beatle, but his inspiration came with some bitchiness.