Tench, who plays a pair of shows at Largo at the Coronet in LA this month, says the sound of Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ and Dylan’s ‘John Wesley Harding’

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Across the Universe” was penned by Lennon and credited to the Lennon-McCartney partnership. Many fans consider this track one of the Beatles’ best compositions. It’s very Lennon, with its off-kilter lyrics and warbly instrumentation.

Comedian Tony Hendra wrote in his book that John Lennon was furious when during a guest appearance on radio, the DJ played parody song Magical Misery Tour by National Lampoon

Pang's photos of John Lennon and meet May Pang at Liss Gallery in Toronto in April. Learn more about the exhibition and see how to purchase tickets.

A song from legendary rock group The Beatles was so hated by members of the band it led to a sound engineer quitting. The White Album was mired by in-fighting between the Fab Four, with drummer Ringo Starr departing the group and John Lennon voicing his disgust at "granny music" written by Paul McCartney.

The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney had become increasingly strained in the latter years of The Beatles, with the pair exchanging barbs through their solo music

Paul McCartney and John Lennon didn't always see eye to eye. In the early days of The Beatles, the two would write songs as they sat together in Paul's childhood home on Forthlin Road in Allerton. However,

Paul McCartney and John Lennon had a strong bond that was born out of much pain, so it makes sense why the late singer confided so much in Paul and vice versa

“Some of it was absolutely puerile,” Dennis said in the book Many Years From Now by Barry Miles. “Thank God a lot of it never actually got recorded because it was highly, highly personal, like a bunch of schoolboys standing in the lavatory making scatological jokes.”

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The Beatles went their separate ways in 1970, but John Lennon made a surprising offer to bandmate Paul McCartney years later, and his response was surprising to many