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| John Lennon | |
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 Lennon rehearsing "Give Peace a Chance" | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Winston Lennon |
| Born | 9 October 1940 Liverpool, England |
| Died | 8 December 1980 (aged 40) New York City, New York, United States |
| Genre(s) | Rock, pop, experimental |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, Musician, Poet, Artist, Peace activist |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, Harmonica, Piano |
| Years active | 1957 – 1975, 1980 |
| Label(s) | Parlophone, Capitol, Apple, Vee-Jay, EMI, Geffen |
| Associated acts | The Beatles Plastic Ono Band The Dirty Mac |
| Website | JohnLennon.com |
| Notable instrument(s) | |
| Rickenbacker 325 Epiphone Casino Gibson J-160E Les Paul Junior | |
John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English rock musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine".
Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and irreverent wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night, in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He channelled his penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist, and author. Lennon had two sons: Julian, with his first wife Cynthia Lennon, and Sean, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. During a separation from Ono, Lennon spent almost two years with May Pang in Los Angeles and New York from 1973 to 1975, before returning to Ono, even though Lennon called this period his "lost weekend".
Lennon was murdered in New York City on December 8, 1980. In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Lennon number 38 on its list of "The Immortals: The Fifty Greatest Artists of All Time" and ranked The Beatles at number 1.
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Early years: 1940–1957
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred "Freddie" Lennon, during the course of a German air raid in World War II. He was named after his paternal grandfather, John 'Jack' Lennon, and Winston Churchill.
Freddie was a merchant seaman during World War II, thus was often away from home, but sent regular pay cheques to Julia, who was living with Lennon in 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, although the cheques stopped when Freddie went AWOL. When Freddie eventually came home in 1944, he offered to look after Julia and Lennon, but Julia rejected him. After considerable pressure from her sister, Mary "Mimi" Smith—who contacted Liverpool's Social Services—Julia handed the care of Lennon over to Mimi. In July 1946, Freddie visited Mimi and took Lennon to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him. Julia followed them, but after a heated argument Freddie made the five-year-old Lennon choose between Julia or him. Lennon chose Freddie (twice). As Julia walked away, Lennon began to cry and followed her. Freddie then lost contact with the family until Beatlemania, when father and son met again.
Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence, Lennon lived with his Aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith—who had no children of their own—in a middle class area of Liverpool at "Mendips" (251 Menlove Avenue). Mimi bought volumes of short stories, and George—who was a dairyman at a local farm—engaged Lennon in solving crossword puzzles and bought him a harmonica. Julia Lennon visited Mendips almost every day and Lennon often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool. Julia taught Lennon how to play the banjo, and played Elvis Presley's records to him. The first song he learned was Fats Domino's "Ain't That A Shame".
Lennon was raised as an Anglican, and attended Dovedale County Primary School until he passed his Eleven-Plus exam. From September 1952 to 1957, he attended the Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool, where he was known as a "happy-go-lucky" pupil, drawing comical cartoons and making fun of his teachers by mimicking their odd characteristics.
Julia bought Lennon his first guitar in 1957, which was a Gallotone Champion acoustic. It was a cheap model that was "guaranteed not to split". Julia insisted it be delivered to her house. Mimi hoped that Lennon would soon grow bored with music, as she was sceptical of Lennon's claim that he would be famous one day, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it." On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17, Julia was killed on Menlove Avenue (close to Mimi's house) when struck by a car driven by an off-duty police officer. Her death was a major bond between Lennon and Paul McCartney, who also had lost his own mother (to breast cancer) at an early age.
Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was only accepted into the Liverpool College of Art with help from his school's headmaster and Mimi. Lennon met his future wife there, Cynthia Powell, when Lennon was a Teddy Boy. Lennon was often disruptive in class, and ridiculed his teachers by mimicking them, resulting in teachers refusing to have him as a student. Lennon failed his annual Art College exams despite help from Powell, and dropped out before the last year of college.
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