Tagged John Lennon

“One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...

Photo by Robert Freeman Ranked 83rd on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” The Beatles’ “Norwegian Wood” lit a fire in the burgeoning psychedelic music community. Part of the folk-...

Chicago-based percussionist Marshall Greenhouse recently released Plastic Oh No (2020), a track-by-track reimagining of John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band (1970), under his project MANCHO. We had a Zoom interview...

80 years since October 9, 1940, 40 since December 8, 1980. 40 with John Lennon, 40 without. Saints are often depicted as "holier than thou" impossibilities, people of mythical and dubious origin from a time ...

50 years ago, the Beatles released Let It Be (1970), their last release after nearly a decade of leading one of the most innovative eras in music history. In this near- apocalyptic Year of Our Lord 2020, the r...

Regardless of someone’s degree of Beatles fandom, a look at the cover of their final recording reveals a deeper familiarity with the world culture overall. Abbey Road, 1969’s greatest contribution to music,...

Hi, my name is Natalie Silver, and I am a raging narcissist. Hi, my name is Rosie Davidowitz, and I am a raging narcissist. Hi, my name is Sofia Duarte, and I am Editor-In-Chief. Hi, we're FIDLAR, and who ...

I’m partial to this song – at my first real concert, the Rolling Stones played it in my backyard. I was 7 years old and the show was at Dodger Stadium, close enough to our house that we could walk and close...

Have you ever heard of The Beatles? I hadn’t either until I googled FIDLAR to conduct research for my upcoming rant on how I got punched in the face at their Pomona show, and this band came up instead. Any...

A message from Rosie & Natalie, your Curators of Experience: Before reading this piece, please recite after us: “I will not take this piece seriously. I will take these words with a grain of salt. I wil...

In 1966, people were out in the streets. It was a parade. “GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE!” It was an enthralling drama. “Waits at the window… wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door… who...