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John Winston Lennon

John Lennon, the English rock legend, was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940. John Lennon was a very important to music and why it is the way it is today, he also helped and believed in the making of world peace. John Lennon stared, in 1957, with his first band The Quarry Men. The Quarry men was then broken up because of John’s mother’s death in 1957. John then meet his new friend Paul McKartney, who is a famous bass player. John and Paul began to play together as an acoustic band at first, in 1958 they recruited George Harrison in 1958. Once George Harrison joined John and Paul renamed their band The Beatles, after Buddy Holly and the Crickets. During 1961 Pete Best, the Beatles original drummer quit and sought for a new band to play with. After Pete quit the band recruited a new drummer, Ringo Starr, from Germany. As the 1960’s started to come to and end, Lennon started to separate himself from the band. He produced his own movie in Japan, called How I won the war, during the Vietnam war. In the year 1961 Lennon meet a Japanese music artist named Yoko Ono, they quickly fell in love. Lennon upset many fans with his affair with Yoko Ono, he was also discriminated by many Americans because Yoko was Japanese, and it was during the war with Vietnam. John started to rejoin with the Beatles in late 1967, to record a series of albums. In 1970 The Beatles recorded their biggest hit album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club. This album was written when Lennon got a divorce and married Yoko in 1969. They also recorded the white album, and Let it be. Let it be wasn’t released until John’s death. Let it be’s recording was put on hold, John and Yoko went to Canada and stayed in a bed for one whole week, they did this to help promote world peace. After John and Yoko got back, The Beatles started recording their last album Abbey Road, which was the winner of the 1970 Grammy award. In 1973 John and Yoko split, she remarried in New York. Lennon traveled to the Playboy Mansion in L.A. and stayed there for 18 long months. Still with no spouse, and no band Lennon was still able to release three albums. They were announced incomplete, for John had been shot several times in the back by a crazed fan, Mark Chapman, outside that apple recording studio in New York. John was announced dead at the Roosevelt hospital between 10:45 and 11:00 p.m, because of loss of blood. As soon as the news got out publicly fans from across gathered around the hospital and sang Lennon’s hits for days. In 1994 John Winston Lennon was inducted into the Rock & Roll hall of fame. Steve Fullerman of rolling stone magazine quoted: “Quite simply, there is no single figure more important to the history of rock and roll than John Lennon. He did not invent it or embody it like Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley, but he did more than any body else to move it forward and instill it in a conscience... his impact remains universal, his influence undiminished.” This shows how important John Lennon was to our musical history and our history of peace and why our world is the way it is today.**

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