John would say to me, 'Ellie,' which is what he called me, ‘I’m not always the 'Imagine' guy.’” However, he also told PEOPLE that Lennon strived to live a life worthy of his work.

Below, we're taking a look at 60 Rock Songs Inspired by Books and Literature, for the most part limiting it to one entry per ...

Director Steve McQueen could not have made his latest film “Blitz” without production designer Adam Stockhausen. McQueen ...

Steve McQueen The director of Blitz talks us through the choices he made to create his dreamlike love letter to wartime ...

As a pop-rock song from the 1970s (released in 1970, around the same time the Beatles officially broke up), it qualifies to be on the list. But I don’t really like the song very much. Neither did its ...

Variety hosted its inaugural Doc Dreams NYC event, which featured conversations with the filmmakers behind documentary ...

Heard in the closing credits of 2006 movie Children Of Men, a cautionary tale based in a dystopian future, “Bring On The Lucie” stands as a testament to John Lennon’s enduring commitment to ...

“It’s easy to imagine ... d admired John his whole life. His first concert at 13 years old was an Elton John concert. “It turned out to be the night that Elton brought John Lennon on stage ...

Since finding fame as a child in Love Actually, he’s graduated to a blockbuster array of roles – including the BBC’s adaptation of Wolf Hall ...

This movie has a real sense of urgency ... which happened to take place on McQueen’s birthday, the director invoked John Lennon’s 1971 song “Imagine.” The lyrics, he tells me, emphasize the ...

Brad Brooks, the singer in late MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer's "reanimation" of the revolutionary proto-punk band, recently ...