John Lennon would have been 84 today, and his life and enduring legacy as one of the most influential and successful artists of all time is being celebrated in a variety of ways around the world.

The best John Lennon songs? An impossible task surely. John Lennon’s incomparable career in The Beatles featured enough classic songs for a whole lifetime. But what happened after The Beatles?

R. Brigden/Daily Express/Getty In the summer of 1980, John Lennon recorded a demo of a new song he’d written called “Life Begins at 40” in his expansive apartment complex at New York City ...

The famous photograph of Yoko Ono and John Lennon, taken on December 8, 1980, by Annie Leibovitz, has become one of the most iconic images in the history of contemporary photography. This image has ...

One conversation involving John Lennon has become as iconic as the glasses he wore, the tragedy that befell him, or the countless hit songs he wrote with his fellow Liverpudlians, The Beatles. In this ...

It happened in Philadelphia in 1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono cohosted a full week of The Mike Douglas Show, the afternoon talk show that reached a nationwide audience of 40 million. And they didn’t ...

A rare watch given to the music icon on his 40th birthday is now at the center of a bizarre international legal dispute. In the summer of 1980, John Lennon recorded a demo of a new song he’d ...

John Lennon as young boy... and in his post-Beatle days in 1973. Picture: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Stock Photo Did the former Beatle really come up with the inspirational quote that’s ...

But on a week in 1972 – one where Douglas butchered a rendition of The Beatles’ “Michelle” – he was steering his show into uncharted territory: His co-hosts were John Lennon and Yoko Ono ...

If one is a Beatles historian and fanatic, one knows that John Lennon grew up without a mother or father. Growing up Lennon was raised by his aunt and uncle, however, heartbreak didn’t stop ...

If the earliest days of Beatlemania were the puppy love, head-over-heels phase of the Fab Four’s relationship with one another, then John Lennon considers this later Beatles album as “the ...