John Lennon explained the hippie-related metaphor in one of The Beatles' songs during an interview he gave in 1980.

John Lennon said The Beatles' "Day Tripper" was about a part-time hippie. The track inspired another Beatles song that was even more popular.

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 ...

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. But utopian fantasy soon ...

It was John Lennon himself who wanted the island. He had seen reports of the Dorinish sale, and had promptly given Taylor money and dispatched him to Westport.

"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.

David Leaf and John Scheinfeld’s inept, tiresome new film The U.S. vs. John Lennon depicts John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1971 move to New York City and their subsequent involvement in the anti ...