The consensus on John Lennon‘s solo career is that his first two post-Beatles albums were his best. It’s a testament to his versatility that these two albums (John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine) ...

Two years after leaving The Beatles, English rock star John Lennon released one of the most influential—and ...

John Lennon is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection to mark the year the Beatles great and peace advocate would have turned 85, the Royal Mint said Friday. John Lennon is being ...

After the Beatles formally disbanded in 1970, John Lennon wowed critics with his inaugural post-Beatles solo album, “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band.” But it took that album’s successor, “Imagine,” to ...

From Paul's ‘McCartney’ to Ringo's ‘Ringo’, some of the Fab Four's greatest records arrived after they were no longer.

During a 1974 interview from the book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon, John discussed his then-new single “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.” “Yeah, and it’s wild and rough,” he said.

We're celebrating NPR's 50th anniversary by revisiting cultural milestones from the year we began broadcasting. "My mother and father believed very much in the power of conceptual thinking," Sean Ono ...

One of John Lennon's most iconic songs came from being with someone who was unfamiliar with who he was as a Beatle.

John Lennon was vocally frustrated with The Beatles, decrying his bandmates and the albums they made together. At the start of the 1960s, they worked closely and excitedly together. By the second half ...

The breakup of The Beatles didn't just mark the end of an era in music; it also signified the start of an unspoken competition between the former band members. They all rushed to put out solo albums ...