When The Beatles recorded Let It Be and hired someone other than George Martin to handle the final overdubs and production, many people wondered what had happened to sever a relationship that was previously thought to be inseparable. What had happened was more down to the turmoil brewing within the ranks of the band rather […]
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John and Yoko. Lennon and Ono. You don’t even have to give their full names to recognise one of the greatest power couples in all of music history. The Beatle and his artistic muse became so enraptured in each other’s orbit, and so famously in the glare of the public eye, that they almost couldn’t […]
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On paper, there’s arguably never been a finer collaboration than when John Lennon and David Bowie combined their talents on ‘Fame’. Of course, both men had enjoyed successfully working with other artists across their careers, but there was something magnificent about this quiet collaboration, largely because of the impressive stature of the two stars in […]
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon were, for a time, two halves of the same whole. An undefeated songwriting partnership, the duo created some of the most timeless pop hits in existence with The Beatles. But as time passed, their fame burned like wildfire, and the money kept rolling in, only adding more fuel for the […]
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December 8, 1980 is remembered for what the world lost. But in the quiet hours that followed, it was also about how those closest to John Lennon tried to understand what had just happened. When the news reached George Harrison in England, it came in the early hours of the morning. He was asleep. The […]
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“NO CAMERAS. NO CROWD. JUST THE WIND” PAUL MCCARTNEY’S SECRET TRIBUTE TO JOHN LENNON EXPOSED. On the anniversary of John Lennon’s passing, Paul McCartney quietly made a journey to pay respects to his lifelong friend. No announcement. No press. No stage. Just an old friend, a guitar, and a song that meant everything. He stood […]
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The entire fallout of The Beatles’ breakup was only a good thing in the eyes of John Lennon. He didn’t want to fight among his best friends by any stretch, but he would rather have gone off on his own and made the music that he wanted than have to force those Beatles smiles whenever […]
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It is difficult to quantify just how much power The Beatles were bestowed with back in the 1960s; during the peak of the Cold War, they managed to infiltrate the airwaves of both Manhattan and Moscow in ways that military forces could only dream of. Yet, their colossal power failed to endear the band towards […]
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The Beatles might seem like a whirlwind of truly monumental moments of creative conjuring, that those moments are enshrined with a kind of poetic joy that they rarely had time to feel down or depressed, but that’s a little far from the truth. Behind the mania, behind the swell of intrigue, fame, and fortune were […]
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While John Lennon was certainly not averse to experimenting with new and complex ideas during his time with The Beatles, it was in his solo career that he arguably stepped further into territories that were baffling to those around him. With The Beatles, he was fortunate enough to have been paired with other musicians who […]
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