Tuesday, June 9, 2026

The 30 Best John Lennon Songs– Send In Your Choices

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Thirty years? It’s gone by in a blink. Here are my 30 favorite John Lennon songs–for today. The list always changes. The songs are actually all equal. I was 23 the year John Lennon was killed. The year before brought the death of my other hero of my youth, Thurman Munson. Nowadays, heroes are harder and harder to find.

1. Imagine

2. Real Love

3. Across the Universe

4. In My Life

5. Julia

6. Come Together

7. Help!

8. In My Life

9. Instant Karma

10. #9 Dream

11. A Day in the Life

12. I’m So Tired

13. Norwegian Wood

14. No Reply

15. Jealous Guy

16. Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

17. Watching the Wheels

18. Strawberry Fields Forever

19. I Am the Walrus

20. Revolution

21. Crippled Inside

22. Strawberry Fields Forever

23. Happiness is a Warm Gun

24. Whatever Gets You Thru the Night

25. Oh Yoko!

26. Woman

27. Nobody Told Me

28. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away

29. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

30. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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