Music N' More: John Lennon

Monday, June 27, 2011

John Lennon

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and he died on December 8, 1980, in New York City from a series of fatal gunshots to the head. He was 5'11'', and before becoming a member of the Beatles, he was in a band in high school called the Quarrymen. I find this person to be most inspirational. He basically says give peace a chance and I'm all for that!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006168/bio

Spouse

Cynthia Lennon: August 23, 1962-November 8 1968, divorced, 1 child
Yoko Ono: March 20, 1969- December 8, 1980(his death), 1 child

Trade mark:

Sarcastic wit, later granny glasses
Songs about personal issues
Songs with political/social themes
Tattered army jacket

Trivia

Father of Sean Lennon, from Yoko Ono
Father of Julian Lennon from Cynthia Lennon
In the 1985 TV movie John and Yoko: A Love Story, there was an actor named Mark Lindsay Chapman who wanted to play Lennon, but was denied the role because he had a similar name to Lennon's killer. So he later went on to play Lennon in Chapter 27
When Rolling Stone Magazine debuted in November 1967, Lennon was the first one to make the cover, it was an image of him from the movie How I Won the War
His murder was first announced to the world by US sportcaster Howard Cosell during NFL Monday Night Football.
Was killed as he was returning from the recording studio on Monday, Dec. 8, right outside his apartment building, the Dakota, by a crazed gunman named Mark David Chapman, who claimed to be a fan
In 2001, the Liverpool Airport was renamed the John Lennon Airport
Yoko Ono's photograph of John's bloodstained and cracked glasses from the day he was shot, sold at an auction in London in April 2002 for $13,000.

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