John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...

The Beatles’ 1965 track Run for Your Life became a song John Lennon disliked, revealing surprising regrets years after its ...

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One of those moments happened when Paul McCartney was writing a song that would go on to top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart ...

On this day in 1974, John Lennon became the final Beatle to score a solo No. 1 hit with "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night." ...

Shepherding Julian Lennon across the Atlantic during the summer of 1974 came with an unexpected bonus for Davey Johnstone.

A ranked look back at John Lennon's multi-platinum international chart-topping 'Double Fantasy,' released on Nov. 17, 1980.

If Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled ...

Dylan’s first choice was “Do Unto Others” by Pee Wee Crayton, originally released in 1954. The song has been covered by numerous artists over the years, including Billy Bragg. But for Dylan, he ...

John Lennon didn’t always like Paul McCartney’s songs, but he praised one of Paul’s solo hits from the early 1980s. Sadly, the track John liked sounds like it was performed by Kermit the Frog.