“Is he saying it to people who have any idea what it means?” John Lennon tried to stop Paul Simon from playing guitar When Simon and Garfunkel joined Lennon in the studio, he and Lennon ...

John Lennon was also the band’s rhythm guitarist, and he doesn’t get enough love for his honestly underrated guitar-playing skills. His talents were showcased in a few specific songs ...

Paul McCartney and John Lennon met as teenagers. While they would become close, they were awkward when they first met.

As McCartney revealed, Lennon had no difficulty playing McCartney’s left-strung guitar. “It's funny: John learned upside down too, because of me — because mine was the only other guitar ...

“He could obviously play the guitar. I half thought to myself ... McCartney stumbled onstage and — worse — in front of John Lennon. Just 17, Lennon was nearly two years older than ...

(from left) David Bowie, Yoko Ono, and John Lennon, photographed at the 17th Annual Grammy Awards on March 1, 1975 | Credit: Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Playing guitar with ...

Anyone would consider it an advantage to have John Lennon in the studio with them, but he thought he wouldn't be useful on even the biggest rock acts.

He emerged from the British folk scene taking a solid grounding in acoustic guitar fingerpicking and ... the end of the 1960s he befriended John Lennon and taught him the fingerpicking patterns ...

Left-handed guitarists have never had it easy, especially in the early years of the instrument's U.S. popularity. Reportedly, ...