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 ...

Back in 2010, a member of the Steve Hoffman forum said Lennon’s friend, the New York City photographer Bob Gruen, told him ...

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, ...

The Beatles wrote some of the most enduring songs of their generation, but John Lennon disliked many of them. Though Lennon spoke critically of many of Paul McCartney’s songs, he also had problems ...

PJ Harvey was born; Ray Charles had a hit with 'Hit the Road, Jack'; Glen Campbell did some session guitar work for the Beach Boys; Sean Lennon was born on his dad's birthday; Beethoven inspired a ...

Lennon was so disappointed by Dylan and "Gotta Serve Somebody" that he went so far as to write a song of his own as a ...

It was going to take a miracle to bring all The Beatles back together, but John Lennon knew there were times where it got ...