John Lennon said one of The Beatles’ songs was about a part-time hippie. Subsequently, Paul McCartney said it was about someone who wasn’t as committed to a certain lifestyle as The Beatles.

John Lennon said The Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’ was about a part-time hippie The book All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono includes an interview from 1980.

One day in 1967, in the Irish coastal town of Westport, a group of fishermen and farmers gathered for a public auction. It promised to be an unusual sale. Seeking to raise funds, the Westport ...

The Beatles' John Lennon, who was fiercely proud of his Irish heritage, bought an island in Co Mayo with his wife, Yoko Ono - but the island has a dark history ...

"When we got here, you were all walking around in f***ing Bermuda shorts," John Lennon said of the Beatles' U.S. landfall on Feb. 7, 1964. "There was no conception of dress or any of that jazz. We ...

Madness and inferno: inside John Lennon’s strange ‘hippie island’ The wild island of Dorinish epitomised 1960s counterculture after John Lennon bought it at auction.