John Lennon

John Lennon

Quick Facts of Life

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John Winston Ono Lennon

• OCCUPATION :pop star, composer, songwriter, and recording artist, founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the music scene like no other before or since
• BIRTH DATE:

October 09 , 1940

• PLACE OF BIRTH: Liverpool, United Kingdom

Early Life

• When he was four years old, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi.
• John's father was a merchant seaman. He was not present at his son's birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was small.

• Lennon's mother, Julia, remarried, but visited John and Mimi regularly.
• She taught John how to play the banjo and the piano and purchased his first guitar.

Forming the Beatles

• At sixteen, Elvis Presley 's explosion onto the rock music scene inspired John to create the skiffle band called the "Quarry Men," named after his school. Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church fete on July 6, 1957. John soon invited Paul to join the group and they eventually formed the most successful songwriting partnership in musical history.

Beatlemania

• In 1964, The Beatles became the first band to break out big in the United States, beginning with their appearance on TV's The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964.
• Beatlemania launched a "British Invasion"' of rock bands into the U.S., which included The Rolling Stones and The Kinks. After 'Sullivan,' The Beatles returned to Britain to film their first movie, A Hard Day's Night and prepare for their first world tour.

MBE

• In June 1965, the Queen of England had announced that the Beatles would be awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire).
• In August, they performed to 55,600 fans at New York's Shea Stadium, setting a record for largest concert audience.

Private life

• Lennon had married Cynthia Powell in August 1962 and they had a son together who they called Julian, named after John's mother. Cynthia had to keep a very low profile during Beatlemania. They divorced in 1968.

• Нe re-married Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono , whom he had met at the Indica Gallery in November 1966

USA

• Lennon and Ono moved to the U.S. in September 1971, but were constantly threatened with deportation by the Nixon administration. Lennon was told he was being kicked out of the country because of his 1968 marijuana conviction in Britain. But Lennon believed the true reason was his activism against the unpopular Vietnam War. Documents later proved him correct. Two years after Nixon resigned, Lennon was granted permanent U.S. residency in 1976.

Assassination

• In 1980, Lennon returned to the music world with the album Double Fantasy , featuring the hit single (Just Like) Starting Over .
• Unfortunately, just a few weeks after its release, Lennon was shot by a deranged fan in front of his apartment complex in New York.
• Lennon died of the age of 40 at the Roosevelt Hospital on December 8, 1980 , after receiving multiple gun shots in the back.
• His death affected millions of people, record sales soared, and he continues to be admired by new generations of fans.

Best Known For…

He invented a form of peace protest by staying in bed while being filmed and interviewed, and the single recorded under the name of The Plastic Ono Band, Give Peace a Chance (1969), became the national anthem for pacifists .