Music has moved far beyond the Beatles or the songs Lennon wrote and performed solo in the 10 years between 1970 and 1980 when he worked with the Plastic Ono Band and an eclectic range of … a low point in their very public post-split bickering?

“You’re Going to Lose That Girl,” Help! The long-gestating Get Back project found the Beatles returning to one of the best of their early songs. “I’m just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round/ I really love to watch them roll/ No longer riding on the merry go round/ I just had to let it go”. Up to this point, the Beatles had never sounded tougher. Much like the rhyming stream of half-nonsensical consciousness on ‘Give Peace A Chance’, ‘Gimme Some Truth’ found Lennon spitting tongue-twisting ire at “neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians”, “tight-lipped, condescending mama’s little chauvinists” and more as he tried to sift through the maelstrom of media bullshit to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
“Good Morning, Good Morning,” Sgt. Originally demoed during the sessions that produced 1970's Let It Be, "Gimme Some Truth" melds Lennon's love of wordplay with a knack for the excoriating take down. ‘Jealous Guy’ – one of Lennon’s finest piano ballads – laid some of these faults and foibles on the table and showed the ultimately human side of a man viewed by many as a demi-god. As with most of Plastic Ono Band, the starkness adds to the song's power, a stinging denouncement to everything the previous decade stood for. Forty years have passed since his death, but many of his songs are as relevant and scathing of the world aka 2020 as they were of the world circa 1970. “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” Past Masters (1963). One of the most iconic and famous songs ever, ‘Imagine’ proves the power of a simple, positive message, executed well. This always sounded like a needed exhale on a sonically overstuffed album. Lennon deftly paints a mirror-image portrait of two lovers responding to one another, in one of his simplest, most touching lyrics. The female voice whispering John's name is not Yoko, but then mistress May Pang, making the otherworldly message of personal transcendence even more perplexing. They hatched a plan for Lennon to write something after Leary took part in the hotel-room recording sessions for “Give Peace a Chance,” but then Lennon decided to keep what became the opening song on Abbey Road. For these reasons, he was monitored by the CIA and had to battle against deportation (watch the movie on YouTube here). Maybe it … And he’d occasionally punch back. Lennon had been hinting at an inward turn for some time.

Seams show on this combination of song fragments, as a section where Mother Superior jumps the gun crashes into the concluding segment with ... another gun? As this song suggests, the lightning bolt she provided was the answer to a myriad of miseries. Lennon and McCartney collaborated in the studio to complete “Hey Bulldog” while film crews recorded it all for the very first time. While fellow bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr all racked up such hits early on, it was working with Elton John (who was recording a version of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds") that brought out the artist's considered commerciality.

Perhaps the most head-scratchingly odd choice Phil Spector made when editing Let It Be was featuring two throwaway Lennon-sung snippets (“Dig It” and “Maggie Mae”) rather than “Don’t Let Me Down,” the stirring non-album B-side to “Get Back.” As we heard on 2003’s Let It Be … Naked, it would have rebalanced the whole album. The single version of “Revolution,” unlike the anodyne take on Side 4 of the White Album, arrives like a sharp jab. Long live the music, the joy, and all the little dreamers you inspired. It may also be his limited output and lack of strong commercial returns. 67 on our list of Top 80 John Lennon Songs), as Lennon admits deep insecurity surrounding his new post-Beatles existence. “Oh My Love” was the only song on Imagine where she initially earned a co-songwriting credit, though Ono’s name was later added to the title track, too. In moments of boredom, Lennon was sparked by found objects – and those moments arrived in a rush once the Beatles came off the road. That’s what we want from our members. If I was asked to put my finger on what Lennon means to me, I would think of his exuberance at life, his iconoclasm, his love of love, laughter at fools, mockery of sententious politicians; I would think of Lennon on a march; Lennon in Central Park; Lennon the working-class youth, joying at an opening-up world; Lennon the lover of Yoko Ono.

His totemic song Imagine is listed by Rolling Stone magazine as the third-greatest song of all time, known by billions of people, sung most recently by groups of mourners on the steps of the US Supreme Court honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Don’t let it. With a nonsense chorus and an unusual time signature and structure, it shouldn't work.

“The Ballad of John and Yoko,” Plastic Ono Band (1969). In the end, George Martin reportedly spent an unprecedented 55 hours at Abbey Road in order to complete this one song. Lennon jabbed a poison pen into the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi after finding the founder of transcendental meditation less than inspiring while on a band pilgrimage to his Indian ashram. “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” Sgt. He doesn't have to be made more significant or relevant solely because of a madman's bullets. Running six separate loops in tandem? Why be weird when the obvious works so well? Recorded in a small annex next to Abbey Road’s Studio 2, “Yer Blues” feels like an untamed first take on the feelings, and the sound, he’d perfect on his official solo debut Plastic Ono Band. “Just give it a chance.”) He was joined by a cast of dozens on the second-to-last day of his bed-in for peace in Montreal. The 10 Best Snippets from the Solo Sonic Psychology of John Winston Ono Lennon. Sending Lennon’s voice through a revolving Leslie speaker? It also happened with David Bowie, when Lennon collaborated on the track "Fame". The result is a half-chiseled monument to creative rebirth.

Actor Peter Fonda provided the opening line, while telling an anecdote at an acid-fueled party.
Even 10 years later, it could still hold up against the best songs on their last-released album. “So this is Christmas and what have you done,” he sneered, knowing that most would answer ‘four hours of Call Of Duty and half a prawn ring, thanks’. “Love” actually started out as a guitar-based demo. Touché Amoré's Lament doesn't push the band's sound in new directions. Lennon is one of the great political figures of the 20th century. That’s how McCartney ended up on drums for this stripped-down and rather raw duo session. While the course tries to link all mankind together in a sort of shout-along group hug, the verses vent at the undecided, the undeclared, and the uninspired. For them, it's all about the 'now', about grasping hold of the legacy as it slowly starts to slip away. The song’s familiar, call-and-response (“There’s always something happening, but nothing going on … everybody’s smoking but no one’s getting high”) drew a straight line back to the wordplay whimsy of Lennon’s late-Beatles period. He’d eventually push back against it, but Lennon always had a knack for straightforward, catchy singles.

Leave it to John Lennon to combine Christmas with a more militant demand for world peace. As with so many others, however, this track begins and ends (at least as performed on the Savile Row rooftop) with Ono. His very public political activism and socially and politically aware lyrics have earned him a prominent place in the creative and political history of rock. It’s fair to say that the singer had more than his fair share of personality traits battling for dominance. It is indeed a beautiful musical masterwork. Click here to see other benefits and to sign-up to our reader community supporting quality, independent journalism. Natasha Alterici's comic series, Heathen, has single-handedly redeemed the disaster that pop culture has been making of Norse mythology. That doesn’t mean it was boring: Lennon’s jolting syncopations smartly echo his own insecurities. It seems hard to believe that this was John Lennon's only #1 solo single in his lifetime. Quite a switch from the simple plaintive "All You Need Is Love" lament. Even worse, when grading his solo material, Lennon can be his own worst censor, sometimes giving up on a solid idea in mid-muse. (1965).

The war’s not over. The subtle schmaltz of the song was swept away by global grief and ‘Woman’ became the song that the turn-of-the-80s generation came to associate with the loss of a pop culture behemoth. Decades and a million radio spins later, it’s easy to become numb to this song’s power and drama. Starr's rugged cadence tends to get lost amid Lennon's torrential rebuke of past icons.

“Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” Abbey Road (1969). So, when Lennon whispers “Good night, Sean, see you in the morning,” it’s like a cold hand closing around any fan's heart. “Across the Universe,” Let It Be (1970). Pitched somewhere between the doe-eyed dreaminess of retrospective 1995 Beatles track ‘Free As A Bird’, the contorting melodic ideas of ‘A Day In The Life’ and George Harrison’s spiritual solo output, ‘#9 Dream’ floats in and out of consciousness, centred around a gibberish phrase (“ah böwakawa poussé, poussé”) that came to him while asleep. A song that thematically wouldn’t have felt out of place on Plastic Ono Band, “How” revealed a similar depth of self doubt and fear, but presented things – like much of the Imagine project – in a sleeker, more approachable way. “I was feeling insecure/ You might not love me anymore,” he admits. “I Am the Walrus,” Magical Mystery Tour (1967). More word salad, Lennon’s only major new contribution to Let It Be touched on a pre-Beatles band name (“I pick a moondog”) and his friendship with Mick Jagger (“I roll a stoney”). This is the wellspring for every confessional moment John Lennon ever had. Pepper’s groundbreaking finale isn’t just the best John Lennon song, it’s one of the most important creative statements in rock history. Lennon’s innate lethargy wasn’t helped by his subsequent foray into heroin. 57. Scorn never sounded so good. “Strawberry Fields Forever,” Magical Mystery Tour (1967). Yet Lennon is still considered one of the most popular musicians of all time. Had it not become the "Amazing Grace" of a postmodern PC world, has it not been overplayed on every oldies station on the planet, this song would rank right up near the top. I would call up. BECOME AN INSIDER. If much of Lennon’s solo output had an agenda – be that political or to make everyone like Yoko a bit more – then this was a joyful slice of wistful, mystical beautiful nonsense, and all the better for it. It’s a bit like the difference between the generation in South Africa that brought apartheid to its knees, but couldn’t create equality. Parts of it still feel embryonic, like he’s reaching for a Smokey Robinson moment, but there’s no denying this breakthrough – for Lennon, and for the looming singer-songwriter movement.

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