John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” returns as a holiday favorite, earning a top 10 debut on a major sales tally ...

With a music catalog as extensive as John Lennon’s, it may be a matter of opinion to some fans which of his songs is most iconic. However, based on streaming data, it’s clear that his 1971 track ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...

One of those moments happened when Paul McCartney was writing a song that would go on to top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart ...

The welfare queen trope originated from a real person named Linda Taylor, a Chicago woman of ambiguous race who actually did bilk the government out of of thousands of dollars in the 1970s and had her ...

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, ...

We tend to focus on the beginning and end of John Lennon’s solo career, but there are a couple of fascinating albums of original songs he released in between that deserve closer scrutiny. From one of ...

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro broke into John Lennon’s famous peace ballad “Imagine” during a speech on US tension.

Lennon’s lyrics for “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night,” were inspired by late-night TV channel surfing while he lived with his girlfriend May Pang during his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono in 1973, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sean Ono Lennon about what his mom taught him, and the new documentary about his famous parents, One to One: John and Yoko.