John Lennon often poured himself into his songs, and he once did so quite literally for a classic track that took over 120 takes to capture.

There was one Beatles song, however, that John Lennon wished he had taken the lead on instead of his songwriting partner, Paul McCartney.

The Beatles rarely wrote songs for each other, but if he had it his way, John Lennon might have taken the lead on one ...

In The Beatles' early days, as John Lennon and Paul McCartney's songwriting partnership flourished into a hit factory, it ...

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

In the book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon told writer David Sheff that ...

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 ...

McCartney and Lennon wrote “Baby’s in Black” in 1964 and recorded it together, singing cheek to cheek into the same microphone. They performed it live in very much the same way. Because the song ...

Julian Lennon has scored top-ranked songs and a music career that would thrill most pop stars, but the son of Beatles legend ...

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.