The Beatles' rise to fame in the first half of the 1960s was meteoric. They went from playing the clubs of Merseyside to ...

What Lennon and Yoko Ono’s song does is undermine the very solution to the problems that plague humanity. This has been ...

Paul McCartney's disco song about God feels oddly servile for an artist who was once associated with the hippie scene.

“Oh, god, I don’t wanna get ... s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album. John Lennon, in particular, was fascinated by Dylan’s artistic freedom to delve into politics, nuclear war and civil rights in his ...

Some of these lyrics seem to be clearly ... you want is the absence of God holding sinful human beings to account. Just ask the victims of Fidel Castro. What Lennon and Yoko Ono’s song does ...

It isn’t hard to find any footage of John Lennon slagging off some of the ... But a lot of what Lennon had to gripe about had to do more with the lyrics than any of the music. Although he always liked ...

Many Christians on social media took issue with Trisha Yearwood and her husband Garth Brooks' performance of John ... and Lennon eventually apologized while maintaining his assertion that Christianity ...

When country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang John Lennon and Yoko One’s “Imagine ... the recital of the lyrics touched on the hope for a world without war that energized and ...

The late former President Jimmy Carter reportedly held the 1971 John Lennon hit "Imagine ... saying in those parables," Lennon also has been quoted as saying. "God is a concept by which we ...

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Julian, whom John shared with first wife Cynthia Lennon, opens up in a new interview about how he hasn't felt connected to the Beatles throughout his life Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...

A voice that sang lyrics, both humorous and dark, on intricate melodic compositions made Nilsson a masterful artist who was revered by fellow musicians. His most famous admirers were John Lennon and ...