Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

Hoover, perhaps at the behest of Richard Nixon, investigated ex-Beatle John Lennon by putting the singer under surveillance, and Hoover wrote this letter to the Attorney General in 1972.

Ono wrote a song about her daughter, " Don't Worry Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow )," which appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace In Toronto 1969 and her album Fly.

In the early 1990s, Greenaway wrote ten opera libretti known as the Death of a Composer series, dealing with the commonalities of the deaths of ten composers from Anton Webern to John Lennon, however, the other composers are fictitious, and one is a character from The Falls.

Lennon and McCartney wrote " If You've Got Trouble " for Ringo Starr to sing, but the song was rejected and Starr sang " Act Naturally " instead.

Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called " Maharishi " which included the lyrics, " Maharishi / You little twat "; the song became " Sexy Sadie ".

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

Lennon claimed he wrote the first two lines on separate acid trips.

The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge ; Lennon wrote the lines " Mis-ter cit-y police-man " to the rhythm and melody of the siren.

( Lennon wrote an answer, dated 1 September 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992 ).

Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles ' lyrics, wrote the most confusing lyrics he could.

Although it has been reported that Lennon wrote " I am the Walrus " to confuse those who tried to interpret his songs, there have been many attempts to analyse the meaning of the lyrics.

" The first verse Lennon wrote became the second in the released version, and the second verse Lennon wrote became the last in the release.

Although McCartney originally wrote the song for Julian Lennon, John Lennon thought it had actually been written for him:

Still others, including John Lennon, have speculated that McCartney's failing long-term relationship with Jane Asher when he wrote " Hey Jude " was an unconscious " message to himself.

In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wrote, " the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been written with a court case in mind.

Lennon wrote the song " Maharishi " ( with the lines: " what have you done?

John Lennon wrote most of the song, and finished writing the words with Paul McCartney ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ).

McCartney wrote the song at Lennon's house in Weybridge while waiting for Lennon to wake up.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

* " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", a 1972 song from the album Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Through this company, Lennon released a tribute song and EP, " Lucy ", honoring the memory of Lucy Vodden, the little girl who inspired the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, with 50 % of the proceeds going to fund Lupus research.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

* Saul Williams mentions Biko along with other notable figures such as Buddha, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, Shiva in the song " Coded Language ".

Travelling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland ( Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !).

Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles ' song " The Ballad of John and Yoko ".

On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in the studio working on Ono's song Walking on Thin Ice.

Ono had previously performed the song once with John Lennon and once with Sean Lennon and told the audience of thousands that she will never perform it again.

While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).

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.

Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.

Julian Lennon is also the producer of the documentary called WhaleDreamers about an aboriginal tribe in Australia and its special relationship to whales.

* Article about the Lennon Wall in the Erasmuspc World CityPoem collection

Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting, and asked her why other musicians " always cover Paul's songs, and never mine ".

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

Hearts and Bones included " The Late Great Johnny Ace ", a song partly about Johnny Ace, an American R & B singer, and partly about slain Beatle John Lennon.

" Montana ", for instance, is about the insane ramblings of somebody who is about to die ; " Idaho " explores a famous rock story in which John Lennon, having consumed hallucinogenic drugs, believed he could drive his house ; " South Carolina " is about getting rich as a result of a bicycle accident.

John Lennon complained to EMI Australia at a meeting about the changes, but the cover remained the same until the album's release on compact disc in 1988.

In the album version of the song, Lennon advises those who " talk about destruction " to " count me out.

The first of the daily Wonderful Radio London shows that were broadcast by XERF was introduced by the voice of John Lennon who was asked in 1964 what he thought about American commercial radio.

Smothers can be seen in the documentary film about Lennon " Imagine " in the hotel room.

Lennon claimed in 1980 that " there's some underlying thing about Yoko in there ", claiming that McCartney looked at Yoko Ono in the studio every time he sang " Get back to where you once belonged.

" It contains 14 tracks written about John Lennon and the Strawberry Field home in Liverpool, England.

The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his garden, while the third was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake.

Lennon's friend and former fellow member of The Quarrymen, Peter Shotton, was visiting, and Lennon asked Shotton about a playground nursery rhyme they sang as children.

Lennon talked about the song in 1980: " I was different all my life.

For the refrain, Lennon was again inspired by his childhood memories: the words " nothing to get hung about " were inspired by Aunt Mimi's strict order not to play in the grounds of Strawberry Field, to which Lennon replied, " They can't hang you for it.

Wild rumours swirled about that former Beatles George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr would reunite for the first time since the band's dissolution in 1970, joined by Julian Lennon.

During his time in Rishikesh, Lennon decided to write a song about the recent wave of social upheaval.

Lennon had changed his mind by 1972, saying " I should have never put that in about Chairman Mao ".