With Lennon and Harrison’s untimely passings, this is as close as we’ll ever get again.

“Revolution 9” remains as big a mystery today as it was the moment it appeared on the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album.

This time, we’re combining tracks from the group’s immediate post-breakup solo albums.

Most of the questions – not to mention the comparisons – remain focused on his dad, the lost legend.

There’s a moment during the eight-disc set John & Yoko: I’m Not the Beatles when every Beatles fan will envy Village Voice journalist Howard Smith. You May Also Like: ‘The Smith Tapes 1969-1972: Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons’ (2015): Books The ‘Mind Games’ Song That Pointed to JohnRead More

The Beatles’ “Ballad of John and Yoko” is a wet noodle of a song, standing beside its much bigger and stronger siblings.

Yoko Ono still lives in the same building where her husband John Lennon was gunned down by a crazed fan in 1980. In the same apartment they shared. For that matter, in the same space where she raised her son Sean before he grew up and moved away. You MayRead More

John Lennon may have called it “a piece of rubbish,” but “Cry Baby Cry” symbolizes one of Lennon’s more underrated compositions. Written while in India, “Cry Baby Cry” serves as a twisted nursery rhyme, and he would return to the motif years later on Double Fantasy’s “Cleanup Time.” The 1968Read More

As the celebrations marking 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America reach a fever pitch, Julian Lennon remembers their legacy — and his role in it. You May Also Like: Final memory with John Lennon led Julian to Steven Tyler: ‘He is a very insightful man’ Rolling Stones’ ‘RockRead More

“Free as a Bird” provides an epilogue, albeit imperfect, to the Beatles’ story.