While I’ll be the first to admit that the solo work of John Lennon & Paul McCartney does pale a bit in comparison to The Beatles, I do think that their post Beatles stuff is often not given the respect it deserves. Here I highlight what I think are the best three post Beatles albums [...]

Picking up where I left off yesterday (Help!) with my series on who contributed more to each Beatles album, John Lennon or Paul McCartney? So far John is up 5-0 but it should be pointed out that it was very close on a couple of occasions and that Paul won the “Who Wrote More #1 [...]

Picking up where I left off (Beatles For Sale) with my album by album series on who contributed more to each Beatles album, John Lennon or Paul McCartney? So far John is up 4-0. Help! (1965) Help! doesn’t seem to get highlighted as often as A Hard Day’s Night does but personally I think it’s [...]

This is a continuation of my “John Vs. Paul” series I’m doing for every Beatles album. So far John Lennon won the battle for Please Please Me, With the Beatles, & A Hard Day’s Night so he’s up 3 to 0. Beatles For Sale (1964) Beatles For Sale is often seen as a disappointing album [...]

A Hard Day’s Night is next in my series on who contributed more to each Beatles album, John Lennon or Paul McCartney. Lennon is up 2-0 so far (winning the Please Please Me & With The Beatles showdowns.) A Hard Day’s Night (1964) Their first two albums showed promise and A Hard Day’s Night was [...]

Another way to look at the John Vs. Paul battle that has been my muse this week: Who wrote more of their #1 hits? I’m going to focus on the 27 Beatles songs that reached #1 in either the US or the UK (in many cases their songs reached #1 in both.) It’ll be easy [...]

I just came up with an idea of one way to settle (I’m joking of course, I don’t expect anything to ever settle this debate) the age old John Lennon Vs. Paul McCartney debate about who contributed more to The Beatles music. Or at least who wrote more of their most popular songs. I’ve been [...]

Continuing the John Vs. Paul series I started yesterday with Please Please Me, this is The Beatles second album, 1963′s With The Beatles. With The Beatles (1963) The Beatles second album had 8 originals and 6 cover songs just like their debut. It is considered by most Beatles fans to be one of their lesser [...]

Some of the comments for my last post about The Beatles songs that Paul McCartney wrote have lead me to the idea of doing an album by album series on who contributed more to each Beatles album; John Lennon or Paul McCartney. I’ll start off at the beginning with The Beatles debut album, Please Please [...]

Imagine was John Lennon’s second solo album (his first was 1970′s Plastic Ono Band.) Imagine reached #1 on the US Billboard album charts on October 30th of 1971. It is a critically acclaimed album and to this day is considered Lennon’s most popular solo album. Rolling Stone ranked it #76 in their 2003 list of [...]