It is Lennon's first-ever public rock performance without one or more of The Beatles since meeting Paul McCartney in 1957.

Wings reconvened in January 1981 to work on the Cold Cuts album of previously unreleased songs, and Denny Laine continued to participate in the Tug of War recording sessions in Montserrat in February, but on 27 April 1981, Laine announced he was leaving Wings due to McCartney's reluctance to tour in the wake of John Lennon's murder.

The critically acclaimed videos led to Lennon's nomination for Best New Video Artist at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards.

Strawberry Fields was dedicated on what would have been Lennon's 45th birthday, 9 October 1985, by New York Mayor Ed Koch and Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project.

In 1985, he played the lead role in a TV dramatisation of John Lennon's life, A Journey in the Life.

In 1991, George Harrison played on Lennon's album Help Yourself but was not directly credited.

In 1972, the performance was released as a companion disc to Lennon's and Ono's Some Time In New York City LP.

During Lennon's post-Beatles years in New York, this guitar was restored to its original natural wood finish and the cracked gold pickguard replaced with a white one.

The ubiquitous Red and Black Sandinista flag was used during the election process along with the pink as it was one of the colours of a campaign that finished its popular appearances with John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance and the Sandinista Hymn " fighting against Yanqui agressors, enemies of humanity.

Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for an explanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her " avant-garde bullshit ".

" Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child they named John Ono Lennon II on 21 November 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.

Their son, Sean, was born on Lennon's 35th birthday, October 9, 1975.

It was one of Lennon's projects that he never got to finish.

Later that year, Ono and Lennon's final album, Milk and Honey, was released as an unfinished demo.

The piece, titled " My Mummy Was Beautiful ", was dedicated to Lennon's mother, Julia, who had died when Lennon was a teenager.

The poem was an intro to a performance of the song " Imagine ", Lennon's anthem to world peace.

After Lennon's death, McCartney once again attempted to change the order to " McCartney – Lennon " for songs such as " Yesterday " that were solely or predominantly written by him, but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive.

Although the song was written by Lennon during his tenure with the Beatles it was both written and recorded without the help of the band and released as Lennon's first independent single under the " Plastic Ono Band " moniker.

He was with George Harrison when the news of John Lennon's murder came through.

At this stage in their collaboration, Lennon's and McCartney's songwriting was highly collaborative ; even when songs had a primary author the other would often contribute key parts, as with " No Reply " where McCartney provided a middle-eight for what was otherwise almost entirely a Lennon song.

" At the time of the album's release — which followed, chronologically, the up-tempo single version of the song, " Revolution " — that single word " in " was taken by many on the radical left as Lennon's acknowledgment, after considered thought, that violence in the pursuit of political aims was indeed justified in some cases.

At a time of increasing unrest in the streets and campuses of Paris and Berkeley, the album's lyrics seemed to many to mark a reversal of Lennon's position on the question, which was hotly debated during this period.

* Beatles Museum – dedicated to The Beatles, as John Lennon's first guitar was made in Alkmaar

The song was written during Lennon's ‘ Bed-In ’ honeymoon.

In this spirit, Spector included part of the studio chatter recorded immediately before the master take ( recorded on 27 January ) and added McCartney and Lennon's remarks after the close of the rooftop performance.

The 2004 Compilation album named John Lennon's Jukebox contains several songs that are believed to be part of John Lennon's original choice.

On May 25, 2007, they did an afternoon concert at Lennon's Bar in Liverpool, also as part of the festival.

For his part, McCartney claimed it was very much a collaboration based on Lennon's original idea.

These readings would determine seemingly trivial choices of Lennon's life, such as which route the limo would take home from the studio or which day was most propitious on which to record, but were, in fact, according to Goldman, often part of Ono's constant machinations.

John Scott recorded a tenor flute in the spaces in Lennon's vocal track and an additional alto flute part, an octave higher than the first, on the last available track of the four-track machine.

George Harrison said that the first part of song's title originated from a quote by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ; however, as for the "... except me and my monkey " part, he attested that he did not " know where that came from " though McCartney believes it was a reference to Lennon's heroin habit.

After a day-long rehearsal, on 16 July 1968 the basic tracks were laid down for Lennon's guitar part and his vocal on the introduction, McCartney's bass, and Starr's drums, along with Lennon's piano and George Martin's harmonium, while all other parts were dubbed in two days later: Lennon's lead vocal, Lennon / McCartney falsetto backing vocals and tambourines, Martin's harmonium introduction, sound effects for tea, and Harrison's guitar, a Gibson Les Paul borrowed from Eric Clapton and soon to be a permanent gift.

U2 later adopted the Nutopian flag as a part of their live performance of the political songs from their third album, War, an example of this can be seen on the video version of U2's live album Under a Blood Red Sky, during the famous performance of their song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", which, interestingly, shares the same title as a song from Lennon's album Some Time in New York City.

Sean Lennon performed the song live on 2 October 2001 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, as part of the Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music concert special.

The piano can be seen in the 1971 film footage that features John Lennon performing Imagine for his wife Yoko Ono at his home in England and in Sean Lennon's much debated photo from 2010 showing pop musician Lady Gaga playing the piano.

The original video release — on blue box VHS and laserdisc — kept the soundtrack intact, however, many songs in the film such as Supertramp's " School ", John Lennon's " Oh My Love " and The Bellamy Brothers ' " Let Your Love Flow " were removed from the second round of home releases — VHS red box — due to licensing issues, and were replaced with sound-alikes.

The film contains several references to The Beatles, including Sigourney Weaver singing a Russian folk version of " Back in the U. S. S. R ." and the use of John Lennon's " Oh My Love " in several key scenes.

As a self-confessed " Beatles geek ", Morrissey relished the opportunity to star in the film about Lennon's childhood.

John Lennon's solo versions appear on several Lennon compilations, the film Imagine: John Lennon and one was also used in a 2007 ad campaign for J. C. Penney.

" Airmale " is the soundtrack to Lennon's film Erection, showing a building being erected in time lapsed photography, while " Fly " is the soundtrack to Ono's film Fly.

The last song recorded before breaking off to make the film, the song was composed at Lennon's house in Weybridge.

The song was inspired by " I'm Wishing ", a tune from Walt Disney ’ s 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which Lennon's mother, Julia Lennon, would sing to him as a child.