I was a music journalist in London. I profiled hundreds of rock bands at the start of their careers, including Nirvana, Alice i ...

When John Lennon left The Beatles, he also mostly left behind his tendency to write opaque lyrics that were sometimes intended to lead listeners off on a wild goose chase looking for meaning. It was ...

Lennon was inspired by a conversation between himself, Yoko Ono, Ono’s ex-husband Tony Cox, and Cox’s wife Melinde Kendall. The group discussed the concepts of ultimate fates and karma. Lennon was ...

Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the life of the ...

John Lennon didn't have the big-bang decade-opening album like his former bandmate George Harrison. He didn't turn to more homespun music like Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Instead, he simply bared ...

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's performance with Chuck Berry is legendary in music circles, with people still split on what to ...

Four tracks from John Lennon's final full-length solo concerts have been made into a special vinyl for Record Store Day.

John Lennon quipped that Epstein’s biography ought to be called “Queer Jew,” according to a biographer who traveled with the ...