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We’ve been poking fun at John Lennon’s birthday celebration over the past week, just to show our contempt for people who hero worship musicians. Just to let you in on a secret – all musicians are pricks. Anyway, some of them make great music so we shouldn’t complain.

Lennon, and the rest of the Fabs, made a frightening amount of good music. However, their back catalogue has been played to death, leaving many cold. However, there’s a wealth of cover versions out there which are really, really cool that you should get in your ears.

And so, by way of saying sorry to those Beatles fans we irritated (and will definitely try and wind-up again in the future), and to wish Lennon a happy birthday even though he’s dead, here’s a playlist of really cool and interesting Beatles covers starring Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Sinatra and more. Read More >>>

Vedado/FlickrGood news everybody. John Lennon wasn’t gay, and he never once longed for a fleshy-fencing match with Paul McCartney, if you catch our meaning.

This is new information recently come to light due to some guy’s brand new money-grubbing book. Well, actually the reverse information came out in his book, meaning of course that tucked away in one of his chapters is a little segment where Lennon wanted to fertilise all of Paul’s lady-eggs in the worst way.

Since the book came out someone asked Paul point blank if it was true – and he said aside from a little light necking, John had never, ever expressed any such desires.

Or something like that anyway. We’re actually not sure if that ‘necking’ part was really in McCartney’s answer or not.

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