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John Lennon
John Lennon was an English rock musician and member of The Beatles. A peace activist, Lennon was murdered in 1980 in New York City.
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Where did Julian Lennon grow up?
John Lennon lived in many places in England and the United States during his life and career. These included:
- 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool (until about four)
- 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton (four to nineteen)
- 3 Gambier Terrace, Liverpool (shared apartment with Stuart Sutcliffe)
- The Bambi Kino, Hamburg (first Hamburg trip)
- 36 Falkner Street, Liverpool (first apartment with Cynthia)
- Emperors Gate, London (early Beatlemania)
- Kenwood, St. George's Hill, Weybridge (Beatles years)
- Montagu Square, Marylebone (1968, with Yoko Ono)
- Tittenhurst Park, Ascot (1969-1971)
- Bank Street, Greenwich Village, New York (1971-1972)
- Dakota Apartments, New York (1972-1980) (northwest corner of West 72nd and Central Park West)
Lennon and May Pang also shared her New York apartment, Lou Adler's Los Angeles house, a house in Los Angeles with Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon and Klaus Voormann, and a penthouse apartment in New York, during Lennon's separation from Yoko Ono in 1973-74.
Not officially.
There is an argument, most strongly advanced in the book "Who Killed JohnLennon?" by English lawyer Fenton Bresler, that the murder was the work of a rogue element of the CIA. Mark David Chapman, who confessed to the murder, is known to have had psychiatric treatment several times and Bresler notes parallels between Chapman's treatment and the experiments on mind control which were carried out under the CIA's MKULTRA programme. Of further interest is Chapman's association with WorldVision which is ostensibly a Christian charitable foundation but it is suspected of being a front for CIA recruitment of assassination teams. Of note in this regard is that WorldVision's refugee camps are believed to be where the CIA recruited Nicaraguans and El Salvadoreans for the Contras and Cubans for the Bay of Pigs operation. Of further interest is that John Hinckley Senior, father of President Reagan's would-be assassin, was the chairman of WorldVision. Like Chapman, Hinckley Junior had worked in WorldVision camps for Thai refugees in the seventies.
How many times did john Lennon get divorced?
Among his girlfriends were Barbara Baker, Thelma Pickles, Cynthia Powell (who became his first wife), Yoko Ono (his second wife), and May Pang (who lived with him during his separation from Ono). There were also hundreds of one-night stands, allegedly including journalist Maureen Cleave (who inspired "Norwegian Wood", and later wrote the original "more popular than Jesus" article), actress Eleanor Bron (who co-starred in Help!), and American folk singer Joan Baez.
Who is the better singer John Lennon or Paul McCartney?
john by far... well this is a matter of style and taste.. personally, I think they were equals but I think Paul had more talent in terms of being able to emulate other singers where as John usually stuck with the same vocal style
What kind of sunglasses was John Lennon wearing in the Rain video?
Little round wire-rims called "granny glasses". No they are not "granny " glasses. They ARE called "Englishman working glasses".....it was the poorer working class that wore these glasses.........
Was John Lennon a herion addict?
Yes. The song, "Cold Turkey", was written about he and Yoko breaking the addiction. Unlike many users, John did not shoot up. He snorted it.
What was John Lennon's net worth?
His personal fortune was estimated at $150 million by the fall of 1980, before his death; most of his investments were in real estate and organic farming. (Tarot reader John Green asserted in Dakota Days that Lennon's actual fortune was far less, and the rest was hype on Yoko Ono's part.)
Did John Lennon know he was shot?
John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980. Chapman was arrested at the scene (where he had waited for the police), and has never left state custody. He waived trial and entered a guilty plea at his arraignment.
He is serving a 20-years-to-life sentence for second-degree murder (New York did not have legal provisions for first-degree conviction) at Attica State Prison, and continues to be denied parole.
Nobody knows why for certain, but several theories suggest that he was a disturbed crazed fan, wanted fifteen minutes of fame, was hired by someone else, etc. Chapman stated in an interview that "[Lennon] walked past [him] and then [he] heard in [his] head, 'Do it, do it, do it,' over and over again, saying 'Do it, do it, do it,' like that." He said that at the time of the shooting, he felt "no emotion, no anger dead silence in the brain."
Who did John Lennon look up to as a singer?
Harry Nilsson, of "Without You" (written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger) and "Coconut" fame.
According to investigators that have worked on the case of her death since its actual occurrence in 1997, no, she was not. The Royal Family issued a statement saying that they hoped that these conclusions would quiet conspiracy theories.
However, only one member of the royal family read the document on the extensive investigation in full--the Queen; reportedly, she said that, however conclusive or inconclusive the report was "nothing will satisfy Mr. Al- Fayed."
Al Fayed, father of Diana's lover Dodi who died with her in the car accident, remains insistent that his son and the Princess were murdered. Charles, Diana's ex-husband, said that there was "not a shred of truth" to Al- Fayed's allegations that the Royal Family plotted to kill Diana.
Conspiracy theorists believe that British intelligence murdered the Princess, acting on Prince Philip's orders. It is believed by Al-Fayed and those who agree with him that a) Diana was pregnant with Dodi's child. b) the two were going to be engaged. and c) the British Monarchy could not stand the idea of the mother of the future king marrying a Muslim.
Other sources disagree, as do both the French and British inquiries. Diana's (un-named here) friend said that she knew for a fact that the woman was not pregnant. Diana's son and closest confidante, William, also insists that, had Diana been with child, she would have told him and his brother.
It is known that the driver of the car that crashed had huge sums of unexplained money in his bank account. After interviewing Secret Service agents, and investigating the man, detectives finally concluded that the money, however mysterious, was nothing to do with the crash.
The driver was reportedly intoxicated--three times over the legal limit--at the time. He had in fact been drinking at the bar of the Ritz hotel where Diana and Dodi were eating supper with Dodi's bodyguard. The bodyguard, who survived the crash, said that he thought the man (named Henri Paul) had been drinking pineapple juice. When his check was later examined, it was discovered that he had consumed a liquid that could pass as pineapple juice when diluted with water. Even though people say that 'the paparazzi killed her', or that 'Prince Charles payed someone to kill her', her untimely death was actually caused by her driver- who had been intoxicated.
What happened to John Lennon on the 8th December 1980?
I would say there were a lot of people that died on 8 December, 1980 but, I'm sure the one you mean is John Lennon.
Born on 9th October, 1940, John Winston Ono Lennon was one of the founding members of The Beatles, had a solo career and co-wrote many of the songs he sang.
He was fatally shot for times in the back on 8 December 1980 in the entrance of the Dakota by Mark David Chapman. Upon arrival at Roosevelt Hospital, he was pronounced dead in the Emergency Room at 11:15 pm.
What was john Lennons beliefs?
Perhaps you mean what were John Lennon's characteristics?
If that's the case, John Lennon was a multi-talented man born in 1940 in Liverpool, England, and murdered in 1980 in New York City
He was known for his wit and dry humour, and of course for his membership in the Beatles, the most influential band in the history of rock'n'roll
Where did John Steinbeck live travel and write throughout his life?
Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902.
How did John Lennon first become interested in music?
McCartney's father played in a band and his mother sang, so Paul grew up around music. He and John didn't start out thinking to be rock idols, even though they loved Elvis and Little Richard. They wanted to write songs for the likes of Frank Sinatra, so much did they want to follow in the footsteps of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
What is Imagine by John Lennon about?
It was about if there wasn't anything separating each one of us (religion, etc.) the world would be a better place.
To put it plainly, Imagine is a plea for world peace and Lennon was simply stating the reasons (or problems) that caused the most grief in the world and asked the listener to "Imagine" what it would be like if these things didn't exist..
Greed ("Imagine no possessions"..)
Religion ("Imagine there's no heaven" "and no religion too"..)
Nationaliasm ("Imagine there's no countries"..) ("Nothing to kill or die for")
Also, it's about the central ideas of Communism, not just anti-socialism.
For a while, Lennon was pro-communism, and obviously against socialism.
Why did Mark David Chapman kill John Lennon?
Chapman was a patsy set up for the hit by the CIA's MK-Ultra program. Why? Because Lennon was due to win his U.S. citizenship a few months later, and they needed to eliminate the chance that Lennon would have joined the opposition to their murderous counterrevolutionary wars in Central America (esp. Nicaragua and El Salvador), just getting underway as Reagan's transition team was taking power in December 1980. Think that's nuts? Read _Who Killed John Lennon?_ by Fenton Bresler, and _The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: the CIA and Mind Control_ by John Marks. And visit ciakilledlennon.blogspot.com
Because he was crazy and said that he had "saved the world by killing John Lennon."
Which John Lennon song contains the lyrics You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one?
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one.
Why did John Lennon write Strawberry Fields Forever?
Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in whose grounds John Lennon used to play as a boy. During rough times, he would close his eyes, imagining he was there. "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see."
People always take beatles songs, and turn them into drug inspired satires.
John called the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" as a tribute to remember all of the Strawberry Fields of the world. The actual name of the children's home was Strawberry Field.
Briefly... John Lennon's group while he was at school and after was The Quarrymen (named after Quarry Bank School). One day when the Quarrymen were playing a Village fete John met Paul McCartney who impressed him with his guitar playing skills and the fact he knew all the lyrics to 'Twenty Flight Rock'. Shortly after Paul was invited to join the group.
George Harrison caught the same bus to school with Paul McCartney. Noticing one day that he had a guitar they struck up a conversation and soon became friends. Paul wanted George to join the Quarrymen but John was reluctant as George was a few years younger than them. George finally convinced him by playing 'Raunchy' on the top deck of a Liverpool bus (making John a captive audience).
The group then went through several name changes - Johnny and The Moondogs, The Silver Beetles, - and grew in popularity in the local Liverpool area. When a German man came looking for groups to sign up to play in Hamburg, Germany, The Beatles were selected. Having no drummer at the time, they recruited Pete Best and went to Hamburg.
It was actually in Hamburg where the Beatles first met Ringo Starr who was over there too playing with Rory and The Hurricanes, but it wasn't until 1963 that he officially joined The Beatles after Pete Best was sacked.
Like many bands, they got together as a group of kids from the same area with a common interest, usually playing at school dances and church functions.
In 1959, as the Quarry Men, they started playing at the Casbah Club in Liverpool which was run by Pete Best's mother.
In 1960, as the Beatles, and with Pete Best as drummer, the played at the Indra Club in Hamburg for 48 nights, then at the Kaiserkeller for a further 58 nights.
On their return to Liverpool, they play at the Cavern Club, followed by a return to Hamburg at the Top Ten Club, then back to the Cavern Club which is where Brian Epstein sees the Beatles for the first time, and the rest is history.
John Lennon was in a band called the quarrey men, when he was around 15 and was playing one day when Paul McCartney was listening. Paul got to meet John and played for him a little bit, and John liked his sound. After playing together for a while Paul told john of a good friend of his that he'd known since grade school named George Harrison. The three of them hit it off, playing together really well.
They had a drummer named Pete Best, although they had heard Richard Starkey (or Ringo) playing, and would substitute for Pete at times. they asked Ringo later if he wanted to join their group "The Silver Beatles", (which of course soon after that got changed to the beatles" and he gladly accepted.
Paul and George were school friends. George took Paul to one of John's shows, and they began to play together. They had a few drummers before Ringo, such as Pete Best, and they finally met Ringo in Hamburg, Germany.
The Beatles started as a "school" band; John Lennon formed the Quarrymen. Shortly after their first performance at a church fete, Paul joined the band and a few months after that, George joined. Like many school bands, they played at friend's parties and also at the art college that Lennon (and co-member, Stuart Sutcliffe) attended. They also played at some clubs around Liverpool.
Their big improvement came when the visited Hamburg and played in the Reeperbahn; when they returned to Liverpool they had improved enormously and they were soon established as the best band in Liverpool. At that point, they came to the notice of Brian Epstein, who became their manager. Through Epstein's hard work and some luck, the Beatles became very professional and successful.
Where did john Lennon live for his childhood?
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, to Julia and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman who was away at the time of his son's birth.[1] He was named John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill.[2] His father was often away from home but sent regular pay cheques to 9 Newcastle Road, Liverpool, where Lennon lived with his mother,[3] but the cheques stopped when he went absent without leave in February 1944.[4][5] When he eventually came home six months later, he offered to look after the family, but Julia-by then pregnant with another man's child-rejected the idea.[6] After her sister, Mimi Smith, twice complained to Liverpool's Social Services, Julia handed the care of Lennon over to her. In July 1946, Lennon's father visited Smith and took his son to Blackpool, secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[7] Julia followed them-with her partner at the time, 'Bobby' Dykins-and after a heated argument his father forced the five-year-old to choose between them. Lennon twice chose his father, but as his mother walked away, he began to cry and followed her.[8] It would be 20 years before he had contact with his father again.[9]
251 Menlove Avenue, the home of George and Mimi Smith, where Lennon lived for most of his childhood and adolescence
Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence, he lived with his aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, who had no children of their own, at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Woolton.[10] His aunt bought him volumes of short stories, and his uncle, a dairyman at his family's farm, bought him a mouth organ and engaged him in solving crossword puzzles.[11] Julia visited Mendips on a regular basis, and when he was 11 years old he often visited her at 1 Blomfield Road, Liverpool, where she played him Elvis Presley records, and taught him the banjo, learning how to play "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino.[12]
In September 1980 he talked about his family and his rebellious nature:
Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents ... instinctively recognised what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did. ... I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home, but I really did ... There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. Those women were fantastic ... that was my first feminist education ... One happened to be my mother ... she just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four-and-a-half, I ended up living with her elder sister ... the fact that I wasn't with my parents made me see that parents are not gods.[13]
He regularly visited his cousin, Stanley Parkes, who lived in Fleetwood. Seven years Lennon's senior, Parkes took him on trips, and to local cinemas.[14] During the school holidays, Parkes often visited Lennon with Leila Harvey, another cousin, often travelling to Blackpool two or three times a week to watch shows. They would visit the Blackpool Tower Circus and see artists such as Dickie Valentine, Arthur Askey, Max Bygraves and Joe Loss, with Parkes recalling that Lennon particularly liked George Formby.[15] After Parkes's family moved to Scotland, the three cousins often spent their school holidays together there. Parkes recalled, "John, cousin Leila and I were very close. From Edinburgh we would drive up to the family croft at Durness, which was from about the time John was nine years old until he was about 16."[16] He was 14 years old when his uncle George died of a liver haemorrhage on 5 June 1955 (aged 52).[17]
Lennon was raised as an Anglican and attended Dovedale Primary School.[18] From September 1952 to 1957, after passing his Eleven-Plus exam, he attended Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, and was described by Harvey at the time as, "A happy-go-lucky, good-humoured, easy going, lively lad."[19] He often drew comical cartoons which appeared in his own self-made school magazine called The Daily Howl,[20] but despite his artistic talent, his school reports were damning: "Certainly on the road to failure ... hopeless ... rather a clown in class ... wasting other pupils' time."[21]
His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she "lent" her son five pounds and ten shillings on the condition that the guitar be delivered to her own house, and not Mimi's, knowing well that her sister was not supportive of her son's musical aspirations.[22] As Mimi was sceptical of his claim that he would be famous one day, she hoped he would grow bored with music, often telling him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it".[23] On 15 July 1958, when Lennon was 17 years old, his mother, walking home after visiting the Smiths' house, was struck by a car and killed.[24]
Lennon failed all his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art only after his aunt and headmaster intervened.[25] Once at the college, he started wearing Teddy Boy clothes and acquired a reputation for disrupting classes and ridiculing teachers. As a result, he was excluded from the painting class, then the graphic arts course, and was threatened with expulsion for his behaviour, which included sitting on a nude model's lap during a life drawing class.[26] He failed an annual exam, despite help from fellow student and future wife Cynthia Powell, and was "thrown out of the college before his final year
Was John Lennon the youngest member of the Beatles?
Starr was actually the oldest member of the group (born in July 1940; next-oldest member John Lennon was born in October 1940), but was the last to join. The youngest of the Beatles was George Harrison.
