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The Beatles song accidentally fuelled by LSD

    The Beatles song accidentally fuelled by LSD

If I had to think about how John Lennon’s presence in the world was slowly introduced to me, it was first with the tightly fitting Windsor sunglasses, accompanied with a

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How Paul McCartney stepped up for John Lennon’s son Julian

    How Paul McCartney stepped up for John Lennon’s son Julian

“Hey Jude, don’t make it bad, Take a sad song and make it better”: Paul McCartney wrote those words in 1968, and quickly, they became the opening lines to one

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How John Lennon became a journalist before The Beatles formed

    How John Lennon became a journalist before The Beatles formed

When you think about the music world’s biggest and best creative minds, in some respects, it seems as if they simply popped up out of nowhere. But the reality is

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The band who killed “the new art” pioneered by The Beatles

    The band who killed “the new art” pioneered by The Beatles

For pretty much the entirety of human existence, live music was all there was. If music history was the Eiffel Tower, then the modern recorded era would comprise the top

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Why John Lennon Believed Bob Dylan’s “Basic” Songs Came From the British Isles – American Songwriter

    Why John Lennon Believed Bob Dylan’s “Basic” Songs Came From the British Isles – American Songwriter

No genre of music has one sole creator. Rather, the creation of a genre comes from generations of influence, impact,

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The Beatles fans praise John Lennon’s ‘Instant Karma’ performance – but point out one ‘annoying’ part | Cult Following

    The Beatles fans praise John Lennon’s ‘Instant Karma’ performance – but point out one ‘annoying’ part | Cult Following

A performance of Instant Karma delivered by John Lennon on Top of the Pops has one “annoying” part according to

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The song that proves John Lennon would rap in another

    The song that proves John Lennon would rap in another

It’s hard for us to imagine John Lennon as anything other than John Lennon. Regardless of your overall opinion about

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John Lennon’s Second Band That Marked the End of the Beatles – American Songwriter

    John Lennon’s Second Band That Marked the End of the Beatles – American Songwriter

By the end of the Beatles’ run, their best touring days were well behind them. That left room only for

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Beatles Roundup for Summer 2025 – Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia

    Beatles Roundup for Summer 2025 – Goldmine Magazine: Record Collector & Music Memorabilia

Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs (Celadon Books) takes a different approach in its examination of

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The secret John Lennon message only Paul McCartney decoded

    The secret John Lennon message only Paul McCartney decoded

Before The Beatles came The Quarrymen; this early incarnation was formed by 16-year-old John Lennon in 1956 with some friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool. They were initially,

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