The Beatles, notorious for shaking things up, certainly did when John Lennon's audacious claim in 1966 that they were "more ...

On 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot four times in the back outside of his apartment building in New York City. He was 40 years old. 7 days after his death, millions of people paused their ...

On one occasion, John Lennon described his wife Yoko Ono as "the most famous unknown artist in the world. Everyone knows her name but no one knows what she does." This oxymoron is in itself a ...

One of the most famous quotes attributed to John Lennon was never actually said by him. At the height of their fame in the mid-1960s, the Beatles were the name on almost everyone's lips. The Fab ...

John Lennon changed a lyric in one of The Beatles' most iconic songs because he was worried it could cause a major misunderstanding, a new book has claimed.

John Lennon's incredible way with words wasn't confined to Beatles lyrics. The British singer/songwriter/peace activist who co-founded the most popular rock group in history had a gift for ...

John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous.. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term ...

The band, which was formed in Liverpool, England in 1960, is considered the most successful group in music history. Most of their famous tracks were co-credited as written by Lennon and McCartney ...

John Lennon is being honored in a specially minted British coin collection to mark the year the Beatles great and peace advocate would have turned 85, the Royal Mint said Friday.