BIOGRAPHY

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October
1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the
Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With
fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a
teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the
group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced albums
including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as "Give Peace
a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in
1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the
music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980
with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on
film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved
to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy
attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were
adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.

By 2012, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as
writer, co-writer, or performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the
US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth
and, in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. He was
posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame twice, in 1988 as a member of the Beatles and in 1994 as a solo
artist.
 QUOTABLE QUOTE

1. “When I cannot sing my heart, I can

only speak my mind.”

2. “Everything is clearer when you’re

in love.”

3. “I don’t believe in killing whatever

the reason!”

4. “Love is a promise, love is a

souvenir, once given never
forgotten, never let it disappear.”
5. “Everything is clearer when you’re
in love.”
 LIFE LESSON

John Lennon Creative since childhood

When childhood, Lennon attended Dovedale Primary School not far from his home in
Woolton, Liverpool suburb. Although it had started his education well, Lennon then
declined sharply, and did not have any interest in academic subjects usual, even tend to
not like the teachers, and often in trouble at school, even in the category of students
and restless with friends nearby , Pete Shotton.

However, Lennon has a very deep interest in drawing, cartooning, writing short stories,
and copy something from the newspaper. In fact, while in elementary school, Lennon
has produced a small book of his own work entitled Sport Speed and Illustrated. The
book contains jokes, cartoons, inset photographs of movie stars and football players. In
fact, there are the stories beamed each time ended with, "If you like, come again next
week, this will be better." In fact, John Lennon's boyhood never imagined would be a
musician, he is aspiring to be a journalist.
Learning music Early and Making The Band As Self Expression

Around the age of fifteen years, the music began to enter his life. As the music into the
lives of British teenagers in general at the time, and had picked the Rock n Roll. With
the fever that swept the music, he decided to create his own music gang, and even
forced Pete Shotton to join, even though he had no interest in music at all.At about the
beginning of 1957, he made the Quarrymen, playing music for a party of friends, social
events, and several local events that no other major. Lennon got his first guitar from
Julia, his eldest brother, and asked him to practice on the front porch.

On June 15, 1957, the Quarrymen play at a church supper Parish St. Paul in Woolton.
Ivan Vaughan, Lennon friend who went to school in different places with him, also
invited a friend of his fifteen years of school to watch and see Lennon's Quarrymen play.
The man was Paul McCartney. He brought his own guitar, play a song for Lennon,
entitled Twenty Flight Rock, and John Lennon McCartney instantly fascinated by the
game.
 IN FIVE WORDS

1. Creative

2. Rebel

3. Not Humorous

4. Grumpy

5. Cool
 FINAL FACT

Remains a creative musician and loved by many people

around the world
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