“John phoned me up one morning in January and said, ‘I’ve written this tune and I’m going to record it tonight and have it ...

John Lennon’s songwriting catalog with the Beatles was robust. His songs were characterized by off-kilter, heady lyrics (sometimes even nonsensical) that somehow spoke to audiences on a real level.

Few people knew John Lennon as intimately as May Pang. She was his romantic partner during the infamous “Lost Weekend” which ...