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2 days ago · Early years: 1940–1956 Lennon's home at 251 Menlove Avenue John Winston Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital, the only child of Julia (née Stanley) (1914–1958) and Alfred Lennon (1912–1976). Alfred was a merchant seaman of Irish descent who was away at the time of his son's birth. His parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John ...
2 days ago · John Lennon (born October 9, 1940, Liverpool, England—died December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.) was a leader or coleader of the British rock group the Beatles, author and graphic artist, solo recording artist, and collaborator with Yoko Ono on recordings and other art projects. John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- Robert Christgau
1 day ago · In 1972 the Nixon Administration began deportation proceedings against John Lennon and Yoko Ono, claiming they had been admitted to the country in violation of then-existing immigration law. Lennon and Ono argued that the deportation order was a politically-motivated effort to silence them as critics of the war in Vietnam.
4 days ago · Even more eerie was the fact Goresh had photographed Lennon with his killer just hours before he was gunned him down. On that day, December 8, 1980, 21-year-old Lennon fan Paul Goresh and 25-year-old Mark David Chapman were waiting for Lennon outside his apartment building.
2 hours ago · Greil Marcus, “Rock-a-Hula, Clarified,” Creem, June 1971, 36–52; Lester Bangs, “James Taylor Marked for Death,” Who Put the Bomp, Winter‒Spring 1971 and Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, ed. Greil Marcus (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), 53–81; David Browne, Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 (New York: Da Capo ...
4 days ago · A new John Lennon music video has been released to accompany a new “Ultimate Mix” version of his solo song “You Are Here,” a love ballad that Lennon wrote for his future wife, Yoko Ono.
6 days ago · ‘I turned down offer to join The Beatles,’ reveals childhood friend of John Lennon Quarrymen bandmate, now 82, refused to replace Pete Best, as he ‘didn’t like rock ‘n’ roll’ and ...
