Category : John Lennon

The day the Beatles broke up: fly away Paul - archive, April 1970

Fifty years ago, Paul McCartney announced that he was no longer working with Beatles. See how the Guardian reported the splitby Jackie Leishman11 April 1970 Related: 'I was shattered' – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the day the Beatles split Rel...

'I was shattered' – Paul Weller, Booker T and more on the day the Beatles split

Fifty years ago today, the counter-cultural whirlwind that was the Beatles ended. Musicians, fans and insiders relive the devastating day their era-defining story came to an abrupt close On 9 April 1970, a press release about a 27-year-old solo artis...

Julian Lennon Felt 'cast Aside' By Dad John Lennon

'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children

The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dadA lot of the happy memories of my father are from the late 1960s at Kenwood, the old Tudor house we had in Surrey,...

Road trips, yoga and LSD with the dentist: what the Beatles did next

Fifty years after the band announced their split, Craig Brown looks back at the Fab Four’s remarkable return to ‘normal’ lifeOn 29 August 1966, the Beatles closed their set at the Candlestick Park baseball stadium in San Francisco with “Long Tall Sal...

You'll Never Walk Alone and Locked Up top chart of popular quarantine music

Listeners are flocking to hear tracks such as Don’t Stand So Close to Me and Everybody Hurts as the coronavirus crisis deepensYou’ll Never Walk Alone, as performed by Gerry and the Pacemakers, has topped a chart of songs experiencing a surge in popul...

Abbey Road zebra crossing repainted in coronavirus lockdown

Council workers take advantage of the empty streets to spruce up the crossing featured on the cover of the 1969 Beatles albumThe iconic Abbey Road zebra crossing made famous by the 1969 Beatles album of the same name has been repainted while the stre...

Dhani Harrison - The Inner Light

The Inner Light

A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JOHN & YOKO

The Beatles' Rude Lyric Swaps At Gigs Drowned Out By Deafening Fans

Gal Gadot and friends singing to us about self-isolation? That’s a bit rich

We’re too worried about contagion, lost income and feral gangs to watch millionaires singing Imagine in mansions. Aren’t we?You might think, in a time of global panic like this one, the movements and behaviours of the rich and the famous are rendered...

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - The Luck Of The Irish ☘️ ???????? (official music video HD)

‘I was a bad influence on the Beatles': James Taylor on Lennon, love and recovery

The singer has written many beautiful songs – and was a muse for Joni Mitchell and Carole King. He reflects on his relationship with Mitchell and overcoming childhood trauma and heroin addictionJames Taylor looks out at the sprawling London skyline....