John Lennon wrote plenty of songs with ornate lyrics that you can pore over and discuss the meaning for hours. With "Oh Yoko!" the closing track off his 1971 masterpiece album Imagine, he went at ...

His new book, “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” is, astonishingly, one of the few to offer a detailed narrative of John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s partnership. And it’s a revelation.