Mr. Frances, 66, lives in Sag Harbor on Long Island and is still a working photographer. He remembered photographing Lennon, but it was a traumatic memory. There were no pictures of John Lennon in the Friends Seminary yearbook because he had lost the negatives that very week. He didn’t even have the contact sheets.

The Beatles are among the contenders for the Grammy celebrating the year's best record, highlighting the Recording Academy's ongoing debate around AI. | TAG24

Chappell Roan, performing during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 11, 2024, is up for six Grammy Awards, which will be handed out Feb. 2 in Los Angeles. Roan, along with Sabrina Carpenter, is nominated for album, song and record of the year, as well as best new artist. Image: Noam Galai/Getty Images

In 2010, the year Swift won album of the year with “Fearless,” Beyoncé won song of the year for “Single Ladies” over Swift’s “You Belong with Me” and won best female pop vocal performance for “Halo,” also over “You Belong with Me.”

Beyoncé is up for the award again in 2025. Following a record-breaking run, her 2024 album "Cowboy Carter" is nominated for 11 awards, including album of the year. Also nominated are Sabrina Carpenter, Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, André 3000, Jacob Collier, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift.

Beatles broke up more than half-a-century ago and only two members are living, but they are among the contenders for the Grammy celebrating the year's best record, a head-scratching nomination that highlights the Recording Academy's ongoing debate on how to handle artificial intelligence.

When Sean Ono Lennon, the only child of John Lennon and artist/activist Yoko Ono, was growing up, his father’s third solo album, Mind Games, was “just sort of the lore of my family; his music was always playing in the house,

The record of the year category for the 2025 Grammys is full of zesty pop hits from young female acts such as Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter. There’s also Kendrick Lamar’s operatically vicious “Not Like Us” and some poignant,

The Beatles could finally win Record of the Year at the Grammys for "Now and Then," breaking a historic losing streak that's continued for decades.

The 67th Grammy Awards take place Sunday in Los Angeles. Check out our picks for album of the year, record of the year and other top categories.

Harris Dickinson responded to rumors that he has been cast as John Lennon in filmmaker Sam Mendes' four in-the-works movies about the Beatles. 'I think it would be a brilliant opportunity to play John Lennon,