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Songs about John Lennon
- Here Today (Paul McCartney song)Paul McCartney composed Here Today in mid-1981. This was less than a year after John Lennon's murder in 1980. The song emerged from deep personal grief and a…
- All Those Years AgoGeorge Harrison originally wrote the song with different lyrics for Ringo Starr to record. The session took place before John Lennon's death in December 1980.
- Help! (song)John Lennon wrote the lyrics to express his stress after the Beatles' quick rise to success. He told Playboy magazine in 1980 that he was subconsciously…
- Strawberry Fields ForeverJohn Lennon spent his early years in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. He played in the wooded garden behind Strawberry Field, a Salvation Army children's home…
- Free as a BirdIn 1977, John Lennon recorded a rough demo of Free as a Bird inside his Dakota apartment in New York City. He spoke into the cassette recorder with a thick…