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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.
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JOHN LENNON BIOGRAPHY John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. With Paul McCartney, he formed a songwriting partnership that is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century.

John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. When he was four years old, his parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. John's father was a merchant seaman and John did not see a lot of his father when he was small. As a child, John was a prankster and he enjoyed getting in trouble. As a boy and young adult, John enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. One of the reasons for his obsession with cripples and deformities was because of the Death of his Mother Julia. The John's school master thought that John could go to an art school for college, since he did not get good grades in school, but had artistic talent. He made it to art school, and was not allow to play "Rock and Roll". At this college, he met a woman by the name of Cynthia Powell, who became his first wife. As a child, John lived a life of uninterrupted calm. He didn't recall feeling desperately sad or unusually happy. Unfortunately that calm was suddenly shattered when his mother died before his 18th birthday. John did not like to talk about the death of his mother, because it was to great a sorrow to be publicized. After the death of his mother, John went to live with his Aunt Mimi. John consider his Aunt Mimi the greatest person. They lived in a little house, with frilly curtains at the windows, and an old apple tree in the front garden. When John was away from home, he thought about Aunt Mimi and her frilly curtains and her apple tree, and he realized how fortunate he was. B