John Lennon

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a band that impacted the music scene like no other

before or since
BIRTH DATE:
October 09, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH: Liverpool, United Kingdom

John Winston Ono Lennon

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.

Early Life

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.

Forming the Beatles

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.

Beatlemania

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.

MBE

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

Private life

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.

USA

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.

Assassination

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.