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‘When life hands you lemons’ – The Standard

    ‘When life hands you lemons’ – The Standard

“Life,” singer John Lennon once aptly observed, “is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.” At no other time was his pithy wisdom better observed than

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Photographer Spots His Doppelganger in a John Lennon Poster | PetaPixel

    Photographer Spots His Doppelganger in a John Lennon Poster | PetaPixel

When I first saw the photograph, I was a bit confused. One was Beatle John Lennon because his name was written in bold, but who was the other similar-looking person?

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What the Beatles Teach Us About Creativity · Babson Thought & Action

    What the Beatles Teach Us About Creativity · Babson Thought & Action

Kevin Sweeney still remembers the music teacher in junior high who taught him about the Beatles. This was in the mid- to late 1970s, and the teacher was enamored with

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The Beatles song that saw Lennon and McCartney come to blows

    The Beatles song that saw Lennon and McCartney come to blows

By the time The Beatles made The White Album, the cracks were beginning to show. Having spent much of their young lives joined at the hip, it’s no wonder John Lennon, Paul

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When the authorities seized John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album

    When the authorities seized John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s album

There can be no doubt that, by 1969, John Lennon had reached a new phase in his life. Already beginning

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Did John Lennon really sabotage ‘The Long and Winding Road’?

    Did John Lennon really sabotage ‘The Long and Winding Road’?

The making of Let It Be will always be seen as having been notoriously difficult. Although the decent docuseries The

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De-Mystifying Song Writing in The Beatles: Get Back | Houston Press

    De-Mystifying Song Writing in The Beatles: Get Back | Houston Press

The uniquely unvarnished look at The Beatles in the three-part documentary series The Beatles: Get Back from Peter Jackson is an eye

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The Beatles album Ringo Starr and John Lennon disagreed on

    The Beatles album Ringo Starr and John Lennon disagreed on

Towards the end of The Beatles’ reign, John Lennon started to check out the band emotionally, and the passion he

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Behind The Song Lyrics: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon – American Songwriter

    Behind The Song Lyrics: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon – American Songwriter

  It’s not often that you get a mainstream holiday song that’s also an anti-war ballad but then again it’s

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Did John Lennon Really Hate His Own Voice?

    Did John Lennon Really Hate His Own Voice?

Before there was BTS, One Direction, the Jonas Brothers, the Backstreet Boys, or New Kids on the Block, there was one original boy band: The Beatles. Though the Scouse quartet

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