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The song John Lennon would have given anything to have written

    The song John Lennon would have given anything to have written

The world of music is now full of seemingly unattainable stars with legacies that stretch out of the public stratosphere and go on to shape the entire universe. It means

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The one artist who was too drunk to jam with John Lennon

    The one artist who was too drunk to jam with John Lennon

For any self-respecting musician, the chance to record alongside John Lennon is the thing of fantasy. After all, the former Beatle is among the most important, successful, and universally beloved

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What do The Beatles mean by ‘Glass Onion’?

    What do The Beatles mean by ‘Glass Onion’?

Not everything that John Lennon put into his songs for The Beatles was meant to make the most sense. It was hard enough trying to find out what some of

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The lyric that George Harrison insisted John Lennon change

    The lyric that George Harrison insisted John Lennon change

I love a good forbidden giggle. The kind when being told to stop only increases the amount you laugh and you end up fighting a physical battle with your own

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 fans.The Beatles‘ songwriter went on to enjoy a series of

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