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.

On the night of December 8, 1980, John Lennon returned home to the Dakota building in Manhattan after a recording session with Yoko Ono. As the couple approached their entrance, a man who had been ...

John Lennon, a cultural icon, spoke in a 1980 interview about how difficult it was for him to step away from his busy music ...