The disc is part of the massive rollout of reissued Lennon solo material that EMI recently prepared to commemorate what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday on October 9, 2010, and the 30th ...

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, ...

Given the strength of the Beatles’ albums, it may come as a surprise to learn that John Lennon didn’t enjoy making them. Making albums is a strenuous process. It’s more than compiling a collection of ...

“Mind Games, to me, was like an interim record between being a manic political lunatic to back to being a musician again,” John Lennon told Crawdaddy magazine in March 1974 about his fourth solo album ...

Mind Games was meant to be a return to form for John Lennon, after an instantly dated protest album that felt didactic and cold. He seemed to be back on track with its opening Top 20 hit title song.

So John and Yoko pop over to New York and get a tiny apartment in the West Village. They thrive on the city’s electric energy, with neighbors like Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg. They start wearing ...