John Lennon holding a guitar

There are a handful of classic rock songs about John Lennon. For example, Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen” is about the fear she felt following John’s death. Gerge Harrison also wrote a famous song about the “Imagine” singer.

John Lennon holding a guitar
John Lennon | Max Scheler – K & K / Contributor

5. Bob Dylan’s ‘Roll on John’

Bob Dylan released “Roll on John” on his 2012 album Tempest. During a 2020 interview with The New York Times, Dylan discussed the song. “Those kinds of songs for me just come out of the blue, out of thin air,” he said. “I never plan to write any of them. But in saying that, there are certain public figures that are just in your subconscious for one reason or another.

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