Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul McCartney opened up about the death of his childhood friend and former bandmate John Lennon in a new book about his ...

John Lennon“resented having to be a Beatle” and “wanted to move on and be a radical artist and activist” in the years following the breakup of the band, according to his son Sean Ono Lennon, 49.

Few musicians have lived as boldly or spoken as freely as John Lennon. Born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Lennon wasn't just a Beatle; he was a mischief-maker, a dreamer, a peace activist, and a ...