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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 Beatles’ 1965 track Run for Your Life became a song John Lennon disliked, revealing surprising regrets years after its ...

If you asked someone who played lead guitar in The Beatles, the simple answer would be George Harrison. However, that didn’t mean John Lennon (the rhythm guitarist) wouldn’t take a solo now and then.

John Lennon‘s Double Fantasy will always have a complicated legacy. It was released to mixed reviews, but then became the ...

Lennon saw “Across the Universe” as one of his best songs ever. He didn’t like the band’s recording of it, though. He blamed McCartney for this. “I think subconsciously sometimes we — I say ‘we,’ ...

These classic rock songs from 1971 still make it to my everyday rotation, and you might just feel the same way about them.

On this day in 1974, John Lennon became the final Beatle to score a solo No. 1 hit with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night." ...

If Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Keystone Features/Getty Images When the surviving Beatles — Paul McCartney, George ...

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs: Five of his trips to Billboard's main singles chart weren't part of any original album. Included are songs that became incredibly well-known ...