Mini Biography
John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in
Liverpool, England. In the mid-1950s he formed his first band, The
Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with
the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles.
After some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany,
"Beatlemania" erupted in England and Europe in 1963 after the release of
their singles "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me". The next year the
Beatles flew to America to appear on "The Ed Sullivan Show" (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show), and Beatlemania spread worldwide. Queen Elizabeth II
granted all four Beatles M.B.E. medals in 1965, for import revenues
from their record sales; John returned his four years later, as part of
an antiwar statement. John and the Beatles continued to tour and perform
live until 1966, when protests over his calling the Beatles phenomenon
"more popular than Jesus" and the frustrations of touring made the band
decide to quit the road. They devoted themselves to studio work,
recording and releasing albums such as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band", "Magical Mystery Tour" and the "White Album". Instead of
appearing live, the band began making their own "pop clips" (an early
term for music videos), which were featured on television programs of
the time. In the late 1960s John began performing and making albums with
his second wife Yoko Ono,
as the Beatles began to break up. Their first two albums, "Two Virgins"
and "Life With The Lions", were experimental and flops by Beatles
standards, while their "Wedding Album" was almost a vanity work, but
their live album "Live Peace In Toronto" became a Top Ten hit, at the
end of the 1960s. In the early 1970s John and Yoko continued to record
together, making television appearances and performing at charity
concerts. After the release of John's biggest hit, "Imagine", they moved
to the US, where John was nearly deported because of his political
views (a late-'60s conviction for possession of hashish in the U.K. was
the excuse given by the government), but after a four-year legal battle
he won the right to stay. In the midst of this, John and Yoko separated
for over a year; John lived in Los Angeles with personal assistant May Pang, while Yoko dated guitarist David Spinozza. When John made a guest appearance at Elton John's
Thanksgiving 1974 concert, Yoko was in the audience, and surprised John
backstage. They reconciled in early 1975, and Yoko soon became
pregnant. After the birth of their son Sean Lennon,
John settled into the roles of "househusband" and full-time daddy,
while Yoko became his business manager; both appeared happy in their new
life together. After a five-year break from music and the public eye,
they made a comeback with their album "Double Fantasy", but within weeks of their re-emergence, Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman, a onetime Beatles fan angry and jealous over John's ongoing career.
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