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John Lennon
John Lennon
(biography, photo, video) John Winston Lennon
Name:John Lennon ( John Winston Lennon )
Date of birth: October 9, 1940
Age:40 years
Date of death: December 8, 1980
Place of birth: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Height: 179
Activity: singer, composer, musician, actor, director, artist, writer
Marital status: was married
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John Lennon: a biography
John Lennon was born in the English port city of Liverpool.
His mother Julia and father Alfred Lennon practically did not live together.
Shortly after the birth of his son, Alfred was taken to the front, and Julia met another man and married him.
When John was 4 years old, he moved to live with his mother's sister Mimi Smith, who had no children of her own.
The boy rarely saw his own mother, their relationship was more friendly than maternal and filial.
John had a fairly high IQ, but he studied very poorly at school, as he could not stand the routine of daily classes.
But the boy began to realize his creative potential in childhood.
John sang in the choir, published his own magazine, and drew with talent.
When the rock and roll boom overtook England in the mid 50s, teenagers began to create their own bands at every turn.
Young Lennon did not stay away either.
He organized the collective "The Quarrymen", the name was given to him by the school in which all its participants studied.
A year later, the first boy from another district of the city joined the group.
He was younger than the others, but he played the guitar much better.
It was Paul McCartney, who soon brought George Harrison, who studied with him.
After graduating from secondary school, John Lennon managed to fail all the final exams and the only educational institution that agreed to accept an unusual teenager was the Liverpool Art College.
But even an art education did not attract John.
He spent more and more time with Paul, George and Stuart Sutcliffe, whom he met in college and invited him to" The Quarrymen " to play bass guitar.
Soon the name of the band was changed to "Long Johnny and Silver Beetles", and later shortened to the last word, changed one letter to include a play on words in the name, and began to be called"The Beatles".
«The Beatles»
Since the beginning of the 60s, the guys have been completely focused on music.
They not only made their own cover versions of famous hits, but also began to write their own songs.
Gradually, the band became popular in their native Liverpool, after which the Beatles went to Hamburg several times, where they played in nightclubs.
At that time, the style of music and the image of the band was standard for a rock band: leather jackets, cowboy boots, hairstyles like Elvis Presley, and so on.
But in 1961, Brian Epstein became the manager of the Beatles, who completely changed their appearance.
The guys change into strict suits without lapels, begin to behave professionally on stage.
The world famous hairstyle of the Beatles was invented by the German photographer Astrid Kircher, for whom Stuart Sutcliffe stayed in Germany.
The change of image contributed to the popularity of the team.
Even more attention was drawn to the group by the performance of the Beatles at the Royal Concert Hall, where John Lennon said the famous phrase: "Those who sit in cheap seats, applaud.
The rest of you can rattle your jewelry."
Later, he will be the author of another phrase that has stirred up the public: "Now we are more popular than Jesus."
After the release of the first single "Love Me Do" and the subsequent full format record "Please Please Me", beatlemania began in the UK.
And after the release of the new single "I Want to Hold Your Hand", a wave of popularity swept America, and then the whole world.
For the next few years, the Beatles lived almost on suitcases, touring nonstop and releasing one album after another.
In 1967, when John, Paul, George and Ringo stopped touring and focused on recording and writing new songs, Lennon began to lose interest in the band.
At first, he refused to play the role of the leader of the Beatles, then for the first time in many years he began to compose separately from McCartney.
Previously, they created all the songs only together.
After releasing several more very successful records, the band ceased to exist.
Officially, this happened in 1970, but there have been problems in the team for the last 2 years.
Solo career John Lennon recorded his first independent album in 1968 and called it "Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins".
Yoko Ono also took part in the work on this CD.
It was a musical psychedelic experiment that was recorded in one night.
There are no songs on this record, it consists of a fragmentary set of sounds, screams and moans.
The following works "Wedding Album" and "Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions"are sustained in a similar vein.
The first "song" album was "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band", released in 1970.
And the next record "Imagine", released a year later, almost repeated the success of the last albums of"The Beatles".
The title song became the singer's calling card and is still considered one of the anti political and anti religious anthems.
In the list of the "500 greatest songs of all time", which was compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in 2004, this composition took the 3rd place.
Subsequently, John Lennon released 5 more studio albums, several compilations and live recordings.
John Lennon is famous not only as the author of many popular songs.
He is also known as an actor.
Together with other Beatles, Lennon starred in the musical films "The Evening of a difficult Day", "Help!"
, "A Magical mysterious Journey" and "Let it be so".
He also played the Gripweed shooter in the military comedy "How I won the War", the satirical comedy "Chicken Dynamite" and the drama "Fire in the Water".
In addition, together with Yoko Ono, Lennon made several films as a director.
They were mostly political and social films.
As a writer, John Lennon was realized back in the 60s.
He published 3 books: in 1964, "I Write as it is written" was published, a year later "The Spaniard in the Wheel" appeared, and in 1986, the book "Oral History" was posthumously published.
Each edition presents a collection of short stories in the style of black humor, with a lot of planned mistakes, puns and wordplay, which is reflected in the titles of the works.
Personal life John Lennon married for the first time in 1962 to his classmate Cynthia Powell.
In April 1963, their son Julian Lennon was born.
But the marriage was not strong because of John's constant absences associated with the Beatles ' tour, as well as because of the collapsed popularity.
Cynthia, who wanted a quiet life more, left her husband in 1967, and they officially divorced a year later.
In 1966, John met the Japanese avant garde artist Yoko Ono.
In 1968, they began an affair, and a year later, John and Yoko got married and became inseparable.
The couple dedicated the song "The Ballad of John and Yoko"to their wedding.
In October 1975, their son Sean Lennon was born.
After this event, John officially announced the end of his musical career, stopped touring, almost never appeared in public and focused on raising his son.
Murder At the end of 1980, John Lennon released the studio album "Double Fantasy" after a long break.
On December 8, 1980, he gave an interview to journalists at the recording studio "Hit Factory" in New York.
Leaving the studio, the singer gave out a lot of autographs, including he signed on the cover of his own record, which was asked by a man named Mark Chapman.
When John and Yoko returned home and were already entering the arch of the Dakota Building where they lived, Chapman fired 5 shots into Lennon's back.
The singer was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital a few minutes later, but due to a large blood loss, doctors could not save the life of the famous musician, and he died on the same day.
John Lennon was cremated, and his ashes were scattered by Yoko Ono in New York's Strawberry Fields Central Park.
Mark Chapman was convicted of his crime and is serving a life sentence.
The motive for the murder, he called the desire to become as famous as John Lennon himself.
Solo discography 1968 - Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins 1969 - Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions 1969 - Wedding Album 1970 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 1971 - Imagine 1972 - Some Time In New York City 1973 - Mind Games 1974 - Walls And Bridges 1975 Rock'n'roll 1980 Double Fantasy
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