So, what was your New Year’s like? Did you go to a good party? Were there cool people there? Did Steven Tyler, Alice Cooper, and Weird Al Yankovic show up and sing a song together? No? Yeah, me neither. That’s ok. Thanks to a video making the rounds online today, we can pretend we rang in 2012 with perhaps the oddest musical grouping of all time.

At an Omaha Press Club event in 1991, Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain performed a tribute to pizza sung to the tune of John Lennon’s “Imagine”. “Imagine there’s no pizza,” crooned Cain. “I coudn’t if I tried.”

Back in the day, Paul McCartney and John Lennon used to use nonsensical working lyrics when putting together a song. Eventually, when the music was completed, those lyrics would be swapped out for something much more sensible (like about an Eggman or something). Last night, Jimmy Fallon got McCartney to join him for a rendition of “Yesterday” but they used the original lyrics. So, instead of singing about the aching pain of an ended relationship, they sang about the wonders of breakfast food.

The Beatles have certainly made a splash in the media this year, perhaps more so than most years. Google wished John Lennon a happy 70th birthday with a special video edition of its logo, while Apple made the entire Beatles catalog available on iTunes. Now Rolling Stone is entering the nostalgic arena by releasing recently unearthed clips from what’s believed to be Lennon’s last ever print interview, conducted three days before his death.

Today, October 9th, 2010, John Lennon would have turned 70. Fans and even non-fans know when and where he died: He was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980, in front of the Dakota, where he lived with Yoko Ono. He was 40. I knew that without checking but if you [...]

Glenn Beck spent part of today’s show speculating that even John Lennon and The Beatles were Mao defenders (Mao has slowly evolved into the Kevin Bacon of Beck’s world view: everyone is connected to him by one degree or another). Case in point, according to Beck, are the lyrics to the song ‘Revolution.’ And alas, I do not think he reached this conclusion by listening to the record backwards.

On Fox and Friends yesterday Glenn Beck seemed to suggest that FOX and talk radio were the only things standing between the United States and a communist/fascist/socialist/dictatorship. Does it follow then that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Beck are now playing the role of Founding Fathers?

Suddenly, The Beatles are culturally relevant again. Not that their achievements have faded a single bit since they disbanded, but the upcoming release of video game The Beatles: Rock Band (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3, and Nintendo Wii) stands at the crossroads of music distributing and video game revolution — and it’s the first significant step by The Beatles towards distributing their music digitally.

Glenn Beck returned to the air waves this week seemingly determined to prove he is still his own man. If you happened to miss it, last night’s show was particular unhinged, the highlight of the hour being Beck’s rendition of John Lennon’s “Revolution.” Words fail, but the spectacle begins around the 8:50 mark.