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3 Beatles Songs That John Lennon Disliked – American Songwriter

    3 Beatles Songs That John Lennon Disliked – American Songwriter

John Lennon was a part of some pretty timeless songwriting efforts. His work with the Beatles is generally considered some of the best of all time. Lennon, and by extension

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When John Lennon was “more punk than anything the punks did”

    When John Lennon was “more punk than anything the punks did”

It’s not too far a reach to posit that The Beatles were among the most important proto-punk bands. Of course, the gene is more potent when traced back to The

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The John Lennon music video that was never released

    The John Lennon music video that was never released

The Beatles had always prided themselves on being slightly ahead of their time every time they ventured into the studio. For all of the great music that they could deliver

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The bitter songs John Lennon wrote to mock The Beatles

    The bitter songs John Lennon wrote to mock The Beatles

The fallout of The Beatles was never going to be pretty. As much as they may have professed time after time that all we needed was love, there would be

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Leon Wildes Dead: John Lennon’s Deportation Lawyer Dies at 90 – Billboard

    Leon Wildes Dead: John Lennon’s Deportation Lawyer Dies at 90 – Billboard

Leon Wildes, a prominent immigration lawyer best known for his landmark, yearslong fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon

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The Meaning Behind “Fame,” David Bowie’s First No. 1 Hit; It Followed John Lennon’s One Secret to Songwriting (and Had Lennon as Co-Writer for Good Measure) – American Songwriter

    The Meaning Behind “Fame,” David Bowie’s First No. 1 Hit; It Followed John Lennon’s One Secret to Songwriting (and Had Lennon as Co-Writer for Good Measure) – American Songwriter

“I’ll never forget something John Lennon told me,” David Bowie told Aussie journalist Molly Meldrum in 1983. “All you have

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The Beatles song that Paul McCartney was mocked for

    The Beatles song that Paul McCartney was mocked for

For devoted fans and casual listeners alike, picking out the best song by The Beatles is a near-impossible task. Over

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The 50 greatest Beatles songs | Yardbarker

    The 50 greatest Beatles songs | Yardbarker

Though the band was only together for a little less than a decade, their catalog is arguably the most influential

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The song John Lennon was afraid to record as his own

    The song John Lennon was afraid to record as his own

A prolific songwriter, John Lennon seemed too big to fail by 1973. Having left The Beatles firmly established as one

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The John Lennon song that makes David Byrne cry

    The John Lennon song that makes David Byrne cry

How can a song make a person cry? If any musician were to muse over the whys and wherefores of this human response, then it is David Byrne, and the

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