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| 1968 | Lennon, John Winston |  |
| Lennon releases "Unfinished Music No 2 - Life With The Lions", one side consists of John Lennon and Yoko Ono calling out to each other during her stay in a London hospital while pregnant |
| Lennon's solo career begins with Unfinished Music No 1 - Two Virgins, the sleeve depicts him and Ono standing naked |
| 1969 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| Toronto John Lennon's first 'solo' album of popular music is "Live Peace", recorded prior to the breakup of the Beatles , at the Rock 'n' Roll Festival in Toronto with The Plastic Ono Band |
| 16th Dec "War Is Over! If You Want It!" billboards go up in 11 cities around the world, as a Chris tmas message from John Lennon and Yoko Ono |
| 1970 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 5th April "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)," credited to John Ono Lennon and produced by Phil Spector is released and becomes a huge hit |
| 26th Dec 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,' Lennon's debut album as a solo artist, enters the album charts |
| 1971 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| London Releases the single & album, "Imagine" |
| 6th June John Lennon & Yoko Ono jam with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore East in New York City, recorded for subsequent release on the Plastic Ono Band album 'Sometime in New York City' |
| 1st July John Lennon cuts 'Imagine' at his home studio, the anthemic title track is inspired by a message in Yoko Ono's book 'Grapefruit' |
| 1972 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| Lennon releases "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", which drew parallels between exploitation of women and discrimination against blacks |
| 12th June 'Some Time in New York City,' a double album by John Lennon backed by the New York rock group Elephant's Memory is released |
| 12th June "Some Time in New York City" is loud, raucous, and explicitly political, with songs about prison riots, racial and sexual relations, the British role in Northern Ireland, and his own problems in obtaining a USAGreen Card |
| 30th Aug Madison Square Garden John Lennon performs at Madison Square Garden, it will be his last concert as a headliner., the show will posthumously be released in 1986 as Live in New York City. |
| 1973 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 1st Nov Lennon releases "Mind Games ", which is credited to "the Plastic U.F.Ono Band" |
| 1974 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| Lennon releases " John Lennon - Rock 'n' Roll" |
| 1st Aug John Lennon records his 'Walls and Bridges ' album, he claims to have written ten of the songs in a single week |
| 1st Aug Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges ", a duet with Elton John on the #1 hit "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", the album is released under the name "the Plastic Ono Nuclear Band" |
| 1975 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 20th Sep "Fame," a song from David Bowie's 'Young Americans' album, tops the USAsingles charts, it is cowritten by Bowie, John Lennon and guitarist Carlos Aloma |
| 1980 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 26th July John Lennon takes a cruise to Bermuda, where his songwriting muse is rekindled |
| 23rd Oct John Lennon's first new single in more than five years, "(Just Like) Starting Over," is released |
| 17th Nov John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" with Yoko Ono |
| 1981 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 24th Feb John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 'Double Fantasy' wins Album of the Year for 1981 at the 24th Annual Grammy Awards |
| 1995 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 19th Jan "Free as a Bird," the first new Beatles single in 25 years, is premiered on the televised Beatles Anthology, the song is a 1977 demo by John Lennon completed in 1995 by the three surviving Beatles |
| 1996 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 23rd Mar "Real Love," a 1979 John Lennon demo finished in 1995 by the other Beatles , becomes the second new Beatles single to chart in less than three months. It is released as part of 'The Beatles Anthology' recordings and TV special |
| 1998 | Lennon, John Winston | |
| 3rd Nov 'John Lennon Anthology,' a four-CD box set of unreleased songs and performances, is released |
