UNITED KINGDOM : Caption reads: 'John on tambourine. Beatle recording sessions, mainspring of success, are strictly private'. John Lennon (1940-1980) formed the Beatles in 1960 with Paul McCartney (1942-), George Harrison (1943-2001) and Ringo Starr (1940-) in Liverpool, England. They went on to become the most successful pop group of all time and finally split in 1970. In 1965 Lennon, along with the other Beatles, was awarded the MBE although Lennon later returned his as a protest about British involvement in the Vietnam War. Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 in New York by Mark Chapman. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)
Bruce Springsteen at the Jersey Shore on August 29, 1973, posing for portraits in Long Branch, Red Bank and Asbury Park to support the release of the E Street Band's second studio album, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. (Photo by David Gahr/Getty Images)
American popular music duo Simon and Garfunkel, who are singer (and later actor) Art Garfunkel and guitarist and singer Paul Simon, performs on the CBS variety program 'The Ed Sullivan Show,' New York, May 22, 1966. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)
