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John Winston Ono Lennon [nb 1] (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and political activist. After a troubled childhood, he gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles .
John Lennon was originally fond of smoking Woodbines while he was a student and into the early 1960s, before switching to smoking the French-made Gauloises Bleues. After switching, Lennon mocked the use of Woodbines during a documentary film that chronicled The Beatles' first visit to America. [17]
The Beatles was comprised of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ... Harrison later quit in 1969 during the recording of the song "Get Back" due to creative differences ...
On 25 November, Lennon's comments from a recent radio interview were reported in an NME article titled "The Beatles on the Brink of Splitting". [69] Among his remarks, Lennon said that the running of Apple had superseded the band's music-making and he went "off and on" the idea of the group recording together again. [70]
Cher saw a new side of John Lennon during a drunken adventure at the Playboy Mansion. In her memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One, the singer recalled when she and then-boyfriend David Geffen ...
In the summer of 1980, John Lennon recorded a demo of a new song he’d written called “Life Begins at 40” in his expansive apartment complex at New York City’s Dakota building. With its ...
"More popular than Jesus" [nb 1] is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.
John Lennon gave an interview on the day he died. In ET's exclusive clip from Apple TV+'s upcoming docuseries, John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial, the singer sits down for a radio interview with ...