john lennon Archive
29 Sep 2022
Music to Your Ears: John Lennon’s ‘Rock and Roll’
In 1972 John Lennon teamed up with notorious producer Phil Spector to record a collection of rock’n’roll oldies. Those sessions took place in L.A. during a period the ex-Beatle would […]
05 Sep 2022
John Lennon: Five Sessions Outside the Beatles
More of my “Take Five”… John Lennon is rarely thought of as a session musician; nearly all of his work was within the context of The Beatles, with wife Yoko […]
12 Mar 2022
March Through Time: John Lennon
For many years after his tragic death, it was considered bad form to utter or write so much as a critical word on the subject of John Lennon’s body of […]
09 Oct 2020
Album Review: Jem Records Celebrates John Lennon
Today would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday. Cover versions that stick very close to the original version have their place: witness the appeal of tribute bands. But beyond the […]
22 Jul 2019
You Are Cordially Invited: John and Yoko’s ‘Wedding Album’ at 40
As the Beatles launched their punningly-named Apple Corps in 1967, the group also started a number of offshoot/subsidiary business lines. Apple Records would be the most well-known (and truly the […]
25 Sep 2014
Album Review: John and Yoko w/ Harry Smith: I’m Not the Beatles
Way back in 1990, author John Robertson published a provocative book called The Art & Music of John Lennon. The title might lead one to think it’s a coffee table […]