John Lennon recorded over 400 songs during his career, over 300 of which were with the Beatles. Of those, more than 150 credited both Lennon and McCartney as the writers, although sometimes only one of the two might have done the writing. Almost invariably, however, the songwriter who had conceived the basic idea of the song would sing it. For the Beatles records listed below, John was the lead vocalist. As a solo artist John went on to record over seventy of his own compositions, and fifteen covers of hits by other people.
Please Please Me
From Me To You
There’s A Place
Baby It’s You (a Beatles cover of a Shirelles record)
She Loves You
You Really Got A Hold On Me (a Beatles cover of a Miracles record)
Money (a Beatles cover of a Barrett Strong record)
Please Mr Postman (a Beatles cover of a Marvelettes record)
It Won’t Be Long
Not A Second Time
To Know Her Is To Love Her (BBC version – a Beatles cover of a Teddy Bears song written by Phil Spector)
I Want To Hold Your Hand
This Boy
You Can’t Do That
I Should Have Known Better
If I Fell
I Call Your Name
A Hard Day’s Night
I’m A Loser
Every Little Thing
No Reply
I Feel Fine
Rock And Roll Music (a Beatles cover of a Chuck Berry record)
Ticket To Ride
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
Help!
Norwegian Wood
Day Tripper
In My Life
Nowhere Man
Girl
And Your Bird Can Sing
I’m Only Sleeping
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In The Life
Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite!
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
All You Need Is Love
I Am The Walrus
Across The Universe
Revolution
Julia
Cry Baby Cry
Sexy Sadie
Yer Blues
Glass Onion
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I’m So Tired
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Come Together
Instant Karma
Mother
Working Class Hero
God
Love
Look At Me
Imagine
Crippled Inside
Jealous Guy
Oh My Love
How?
Woman Is The Nigger Of The World
Scared
Nobody Loves You (When You’re Down And Out)
I’m Losing You
Watching The Wheels
Woman
Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These
Grow Old With Me (also known as God Bless Our Love) – a cassette demo version that hadn’t been professionally recorded at the time of his death, but has been much covered by other artists since.