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The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"
By Will Groves published
Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”

How to play like John Lennon: 4 key guitar lessons from the early Beatles era
By Total Guitar published
Remembering an often underrated guitarist

"Hell, let’s do it": John Lennon wrote and recorded Instant Karma in one day. Here's how it happened
By Will Groves published
Remembering Lennon: "It was like all hell breaking loose. Tape machines, tape loops, tape delays, echo chambers, you name it!"

John Lennon's 10 greatest songs with the Beatles and beyond, ranked by you
By MusicRadar published
On the anniversary of his death we're revisiting your ranking of on John's finest songs

What if John Lennon had written Now And Then with The Beatles in 1964? A musician using AI has the answer
By Rob Laing published
And it's good!

"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn
By Andy Jones published
We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

John Lennon: "Somebody let off a firecracker onstage and every one of us looked at each other, because each thought it was the other that had been shot. It was that bad.” – Why The Beatles retired from the stage
By Neil Crossley last updated
How death threats, disillusionment and the very real threat of onstage electrocution all fuelled The Fab Four’s decision to stop playing live…

"They stole our ideas" – John Lennon on the Yellow Submarine film and the unexpected Beatles recording of its soundtrack song, Hey Bulldog
By Rob Laing published
"We had nothing to do with that movie"
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