Top singles from the past
12 January 2026
JOHN LENNON (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)
released the hit single WOMAN on 12 January 1981,
today 45 years ago.
That was two months after he was killed. It topped the charts
in the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
It was the 2nd single from the Double Fantasy album.
John Lennon: “‘Woman’ came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda,
it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although
I was thinking in those personal terms, but any truth is universal. What dawned on me
was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as
I whisper at the beginning of the song. It’s a ‘we’ or it ain’t anything.”