John Winston Ono Lennon

British rock musician, singer, poet, composer, artist, writer. One of the founders and member of the group The Beatles, one of the most popular musicians of the 20th century. After The Beatles broke up, he began a solo career, but was killed by a fan in 1980.

Childhood

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 at 6:30 am, during a German air raid on Liverpool. John's parents soon separated and, although they were alive, did not participate in the boy's upbringing, which forever left a scar on his soul. John became their first and last child.

When Julia Lennon found another man, four-year-old John was taken in by his maternal aunt Mimi Smith (1906-1991) and her husband George Smith, who had no children of their own.

In 1955, Uncle George died, and the boy became close to his mother Julia, who lived with her second husband and his two children.

Mimi did not approve of his hobby for the guitar. John was distinguished by rare wit and malice. When he learned to play the guitar, Aunt Mimi grumbled: “The guitar is a good thing, but she will never help you earn a living!” Later, at the height of his success, John bought his aunt a luxurious mansion on the coast and decorated the hall with a marble plaque with his aunt's words.

Lennon did not tolerate the routine of school life, so despite his sharp mind, he was not a good student and did not study well. At school he became interested in creativity, he began to sing in the choir and published a handwritten magazine, which he himself illustrated.

In the mid-1950s, following the release of Bill Haley's "Rock around the Clock", the rock and roll craze began in Liverpool. In the 1950s, many youth skiffle groups appeared in England. Rock and roll finally gained popularity after the appearance of Elvis Presley in the United States.

At the age of 16, John became interested in rock and roll, learned to play the guitar and created the Quarrymen group, which also included Paul McCartney and George Harrison. It was 1956. The group was named after the school where they all studied. There were five people in the group.

After Lennon failed his final exams at school, the only educational institution that agreed to accept the unusual teenager was Liverpool Art College. At college he became friends with Stuart Sutcliffe, whom he also brought into the Quarrymen. He spent more and more time with Paul, George and Stuart Sutcliffe, where he was at college.

On July 15, 1958, while John's mother was crossing the road, she was hit by a police officer in a car. She couldn't survive. Julia's death was a severe shock for Lennon. “Julia”, “Mother” and “My Mummy’s Dead” are the songs that John later dedicated to his mother.

The band's name was soon changed to Long Johnny and Silver Beetles, and later shortened to the last word, one letter changed to include a pun, and they became known as The Beatles.

"T he Beatles"

British rock band from Liverpool, founded in 1960, featuring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. also in different time The group included Stuart Sutcliffe, Pete Best and Jimmy Nicol. Most of The Beatles' compositions were co-authored and signed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The group's discography includes 13 official studio albums, released in 1963-1970, and 211 songs.

Since the early 60s, John, Paul, Georgie Ringo have focused entirely on music. They not only made their own cover versions of famous hits, but also began writing their own songs. Gradually the group became popular in their native Liverpool. In 1960, The Beatles went abroad for the first time - to the German city of Hamburg, where they performed in clubs in the Reeperbahn, the center of the city's nightlife. In Hamburg, Lennon tried drugs for the first time. The Beatles visited Germany several times between 1960 and 1963. Over the years they have managed to achieve local popularity in Liverpool and Hamburg.

Stuart (Stu) Sutcliffe, the most close person for Lennon during these years. In 1962, Stu died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

At that time, the style of music and the image of the group was standard for a rock band: leather jackets, cowboy boots, hairstyles like Elvis Presley.

At the end of 1961, Brian Epstein became the manager of The Beatles. He completely changed their image - the group changed their leather jackets to neat suits with the famous jackets without lapels, the musicians stopped smoking and swearing on stage. Lennon later admitted that he did not really like the change in image. Nevertheless, new image contributed to the rapid growth of The Beatles' popularity.

On August 23, 1962, John Lennon married Cynthia Powell. On April 8, 1963, John and Cynthia Lennon had a son, John Charles Julian Lennon. It was named after Julia, John's mother.

After the release of the first single “Love Me Do” and the subsequent full-length album “Please Please Me,” Beatlemania began in the UK. And after the release of the new single “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” a wave of popularity swept America and then the whole world

From 1964 to 1966, The Beatles were at the height of their fame. They constantly toured around the world, released albums twice a year, and starred in two films: “To the Rescue!” (English: Help!) and “A Hard Day’s Night”.

"We're more popular than Jesus now."

In the UK, no one paid attention to this phrase, but when, five months later, the American magazine “Datebook” put a phrase taken out of context about “The Beatles are more popular than Christ” on the cover, a scandal began in the USA. In the south of the country, whose residents are known for their religiosity, Beatles records were publicly burned, and radio stations stopped broadcasting their songs. Even the Vatican condemned Lennon’s statement (in 2008, however, the Vatican forgave the musician, saying that his phrase could be regarded as “witness”). At the same time, The Beatles were preparing for a tour of the United States. Lennon was forced to apologize for his words, but the concerts during the tour were missing a huge number of spectators. Lennon received death threats: in Memphis, someone called The Beatles' room and said that he (Lennon) would be killed during the concert. After these tours, The Beatles decided to abandon concerts. They never performed on stage again.

Lennon began to lose interest in the group. At first he refused the role of the leader of the Beatles, then for the first time in many years he began to compose separately from McCartney.

Lennon's appearance, like the rest of the group, changed greatly. The Beatles stopped dressing in neat suits and grew long hair, mustache and sideburns. The famous round glasses appeared for the first time in Lennon's image.

Previously, they created all the songs only together. After releasing several more very successful records, the group ceased to exist. Officially, this happened in 1970, but there were problems in the team over the past 2 years.

In November 1968, Lennon's wife, Cynthia Lennon, divorced her husband. The reason for this was John's infidelity with Yoko Ono. Cynthia, returning from Greece, saw her husband and his mistress in her bed. On November 8, 1968, the divorce was formalized.

Th eye It

Japanese avant-garde artist, singer and artist, widow of John Lennon. Received US citizenship.

Friends called this couple “Romeo and Juliet of the 70s,” and ill-wishers considered her a demon in female form, and him an uncomplaining victim.

She was seven years older than him and had been married twice. They met at Yoko Ono’s exhibition, which consisted of abstract sculptures and non-objective compositions that were incomprehensible to a simple Liverpudlian guy.

Yoko (Yoko) Ono was born on February 18, 1933 in Tokyo. Yoko received a good education in Japan and the USA. In 1956, Yoko married Toshi Ichiyanagi, a talented but poor composer. Unsuccessful attempts to assert herself in America led the aspiring avant-garde artist to depression, suicide attempts, and ended with her parents taking their daughter back to Japan and placing her in prison. psychiatric clinic. From there, Yoko Ono was rescued by a fan of her work, Anthony Cox, who took her to the USA and became her second husband. In 1963, the couple had a daughter, Kyoko.

Lennon spoke about the meeting -

“It was in 1966 in England. I was told that a Japanese avant-garde artist who came from America was organizing a happening. I was walking around the exhibition and saw a ladder, climbed up it to the ceiling, found a hanging pipe there, looked into it - feeling like an idiot - and read one word “Yes”. And in those years, it was considered avant-garde when a person smashed a piano or a sculpture into smithereens, in general, everything was anti-, anti-, anti-. Boring denial. And then I read this “yes” and decided to stay at this exhibition among the nails and apples.

There was one inscription that piqued my curiosity: “Drive a nail.” I asked: “Can I drive a nail?” Yoko replied: “No, because the opening is scheduled for tomorrow.” But then the owner of the gallery approached her and whispered in her ear: “Let him beat it in.” You know, he's a millionaire. Maybe he’ll buy this exhibit later.” They began to whisper and confer. Finally she says, “Okay, you can hammer this nail in, but first you have to pay 5 shillings for it.” And so I say: “Okay. I’ll give you an imaginary 5 shillings and drive an imaginary nail.” That’s how our meeting happened, she felt something, I felt something, and the rest is, as they say, history.”

When Brian Epstein, the Beatles' producer, died, Yoko and Lennon suggested their accountant (he was a close relative of Yoko) to play the role of muckraker, and the rest of the trio suggested theirs. This was followed by a noisy scandal, mutual vilification in the press and years of litigation - the mature Beatles sued with the same fervor as they had once fought.

Yoko Ono and John Lennon separated from their spouses and began living together in 1968. The following year, the Beatles broke up. Many blamed Yoko Ono for the group's breakup.

The Beatles' millions in joint accounts were frozen. John and Yoko had to earn money themselves. This did not frighten them: Lennon’s name by this time had become a real gold mine - everything he did brought good profits.

They carried out bed strikes: for several months in a row they lay on their beds and talked about the fate of the world. They donated money to the needs of the Irish Republican Army. After moving to the United States, they fought for the release of Angela Davis.

For the cover of the Two Innocents album, John and Yoko were photographed naked. Life has become exciting.

When she had a miscarriage, Lennon settled down to spend the night right in the hospital - on a rug lying on the floor, at the feet of Yoko’s bed... She taught him humility, removed the aggression that frightened those who knew Lennon before. Now I could live with him.

In 1971, John Lennon's album “Imagine” was released. The title track from the album became Lennon's most famous solo song. In 1971, the single "Imagine" reached number three on the US singles chart. In the UK, the single “Imagine” was released only in 1975 and reached number 6 in the charts. However, after Lennon's death in 1980, the single "Imagine" was released again in the UK and stayed at number one on the charts for 4 weeks.

In 1973, Yoko Ono decided to break up with Lennon for a while in order to once again give both of them the opportunity to feel free and understand their feelings for each other. Yoko chose Lennon's Chinese assistant May Pang (born October 24, 1950), whom Lennon considered sexy, as his mistress, and sent them to Los Angeles, where they spent a year and a half. Lennon drank a lot at this time. Tommy Smothers, his longtime, trusted friend, invited John to his band's performance. Lennon came, got drunk, began to make trouble, disrupted the Smothers Brothers' performance and hit a female reporter - after that he could not find a place for himself out of shame and remorse. So six months passed: drunkenness, promiscuous sex, social parties - Lennon was a welcome guest to everyone Hollywood stars, and the meek Mei Pang was waiting for him at home.

He started writing good songs again and earned a lot of money, but this did not make him happy: remembering Yoko, John fell into black melancholy, went to a bar, got drunk and started a scandal.

When Lennon made his choice, Yoko allowed him to return. This happened in 1975. On October 9, 1975, Lennon's thirty-fifth birthday, his son, Sean, was born. John Lennon decided to devote himself entirely to his family for several years and sacrifice his creativity. A dissolute guitarist turned into good husband: He stopped singing and devoted himself to his wife and the child Yoko gave birth to.

By this time, the Beatles had stopped suing each other, their accounts were unfrozen, and John got one hundred and fifty million dollars - twelve million dollars a year were brought in by his old songs, which were performed by others.

Yoko managed her money better than any manager: she bought two huge estates (one of them previously belonged to the Vanderbilts), 250 Holstein cows, 1,000 acres of pasture, a yacht, and apartment buildings.

The turbulent sixties are a thing of the past, and the seventies are over: the leader of the “new left,” whom Yoko and Lennon once prayed for, got a decent job at a bank, President Nixon won the election and lost power after Watergate. The case for the deportation of John Lennon, a multimillionaire and an exemplary citizen, was closed.

John Lennon's next album, Double Fantasy, was released only in 1980. This disc was destined to become the last in the work of John Lennon, whose life was cut short a few weeks after the release of the disc.

On December 8th, Lennon left the house: he had a lot of things to do, and he did not pay attention to the man who stepped towards him. He called out to him, raised his hand, and Lennon had time to think that the thing this guy pulled out from under his jacket looked damn similar to an army Colt. This was John Lennon's last thought: the shot rang out, the bullet threw him against the wall, and he still didn't understand anything.

John Lennon was killed by US citizen Mark David Chapman.

In December 1980, Mark David Chapman decided that his god was a fake. He read an article in Esquire magazine - the author wrote that he was looking for John Lennon - "the conscience of the era", and found "a forty-year-old businessman in tax shackles." Chapman suffered from schizophrenia.

John Lennon -f acts

“When I was 5 years old, my mother told me that the most important thing in life is to be happy. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote: “Happy.” They told me: “You don’t understand the task!” I replied: “You don’t understand life!”

John, after an accident in 1969 in which he received 17 stitches, never drove again, renting limousines in his opinion was bragging and he used the services of a hired driver or took a taxi.

John Lennon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

At the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus show (1968), Lennon performed without The Beatles for the first time in his life - he played as part of the temporary group The Dirty Mac, which included him, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards. “It was cool to share the stage with Eric and Keith and hear a completely different sound coming out of the speakers, even though I was playing and singing in my old style,” Lennon later said that playing with different musicians was fun.

Liverpool Airport was named after John Lennon in the spring of 2002. Since then, the airport logo has included John's self-portrait. Every part of the airport has something in its interior that is reminiscent of John and the Beatles: a huge yellow submarine located in front of the airport entrance, a 2.1-meter bronze statue of Lennon in front of the check-in hall. The airport's cafes and restaurants are also decorated in the Beatles' style. The airport's motto is written on the roof of the main building - a line from John's song “Imagine”: “Above us only sky.”

He loved to play Monopoly. He had his own set of Monopoly and often played it in hotel rooms or on board airplanes. He played very emotionally and was ready to bet real money if he lost.

John Lennon borrowed round glasses as an element of his image from his hero, Private Gripweed, whom he played in Richard Lester’s film “How I Won the War.”

An asteroid was named in honor of Lennon - “(4147) Lennon”. Also, on the 69th anniversary of John’s birth (October 9, 2009), one of the lunar craters was named “The Crater of Peace” - in memory of Lennon’s numerous actions and songs calling for the fight for peace.

In 2005, the manuscript of his song All You Need Is Love was sold at auction for $1,000,000.

Incredibly, one of the greatest singers in history hated his own voice. John didn't like his voice and, as a result, didn't like listening to his clean vocals. He constantly asked to retouch his voice after recording.

He was the only Beatle who did not become a vegetarian.

The Canadian group Barenaked Ladies gained long-awaited fame with the song “Be My Yoko Ono”. It is sung from the person young man, who invites the girl to create the same strong and beautiful couple. All this is accompanied by good banter about the image of John and Yoko.
The widow (by the time the song was released, it was 1989) of John Lennon fell in love with this song and sent the group film footage of her life with John, which Barenaked Ladies inserted into their video clip (this was already the second video for the song, they recorded the first one in one dollar in a street video booth), although she herself noted that she preferred another song of the group: “If I had a million dollars.”
The song was also featured in the popular TV series “The Big Bang Theory” in the episode “The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem.” They also recorded the song that plays in the series' intro.

John was sleeping in a coffin. According to Alan Williams, the Beatles' manager, John liked to sleep in old coffins. Alan had a cafe, in the basement of which there was an old coffin. John loved to take a nap in it.

Lennon considered Run for his worst songs. Your Life and It's Only Love.

John considered his favorite number to be 9. In his life you can find many important events, in which this number appears. In particular, he was born on the ninth, he was killed on the eighth (in New York), but in his homeland (in England) it was already the ninth.

While in the Beatles, Lennon favored Epiphone and Gibson guitars, but his first guitar was a flathead. acoustic guitar unknown brand. Many are sure that his mother bought him the guitar, but John did it himself and simply brought the guitar to Julia’s house so that the instrument would not catch Mimi’s eye. A little earlier, Julia had shown her son some chords on the banjo and sparked John's interest. As stated in Andy Babyuk's book Beatles Gear, Lennon himself recalled: “I bought my first guitar at the age of 14. It was second hand Spanish guitar for 10 pounds, and at first I played it like a banjo, with a loose string.”

John's last photograph was of him a few hours before his death, signing an autograph for his future killer.

Later, the same photographer entered the morgue where John's body lay and took the only photograph of John after his death. John was cremated the day after the murder.

Quotes from John Lennon

Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

Great pain and joke always go side by side.

If you do something beautiful and sublime, and no one notices, don’t be upset: the sunrise is generally the most beautiful sight in the world, but most people are still sleeping at this time.

Honesty won't bring you many friends, but the ones you make will be genuine ones.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Those in the cheap seats, clap. The rest of you just jingle your jewelry.

When you are in love and when someone asks you: “How can you be with this woman?”, you answer: “What do you mean? Why do you want to throw a stone at her or punish me for loving her?”

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

If anyone says that love and peace are a cliché that went away with the sixties, that will be their problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Time lost in pleasure is not considered lost.

If everyone worked while sitting in sacks, there would be no prejudices. We would have to judge people by their qualities and not by their appearance.

Our society is a pursuit of crazy people for crazy goals.

We dreamed of changing something in this world... but everything remained the same. Still selling guns South Africa, and blacks are killed on the street. People still live in poverty and have rats running around. Only crowds of rich loafers walk around London in fashionable rags. I don't believe in the Beatles myth anymore.

If you are standing on the edge of a cliff and wondering whether to jump or not, jump!

All my life I've been changing.

"Working Class Hero". I think it's revolutionary song. In the sense that it was written for workers - real workers, not for sentimental whores or philosophizing perverts. In some ways it is akin to “Give peace A Chance”, although perhaps not everyone will understand it correctly. The song is addressed to "working class heroes" like me - upstarts from the lower classes moving to middle class. I have walked this path and decided to issue a kind of warning to everyone who hopes for success.

No matter what we say, it never corresponds to what we want to say.

Nobody explained to me what sex is. I learned about him from the writings on the walls.

The dream is over. It's time to get down to business.

Anyone can achieve success. You need to repeat these words to yourself all the time, and success will come.

Talent is the ability to believe in success. It’s complete nonsense when they say that I suddenly discovered a talent in myself. I was just working.

Death is like changing from one car to another.

Music belongs to everyone. Only record companies still believe that they are the owners.

When I was about twelve years old, I often thought that I was probably a genius, but no one noticed. I thought: “I’m either a genius or crazy. Which of them? I can’t be crazy, because I’m not in a mental hospital. That means I'm a genius." I want to say that genius is apparently a form of madness.

I never thought that I would write great things, I just went and wrote them.

Rock and roll is eternal because it is simple, there is nothing superfluous in it. Its rhythm penetrates all barriers. I read a book by Elridge Cleaver - he writes about how blacks helped a white man with his music to find himself, to become aware of his body. Their music has penetrated us forever. Already at the age of fifteen, nothing existed for me except rock and roll in this life. Its strength lies in some special realism. The amazing naturalness of rock strikes you even at the very first acquaintance with it. In a word, this is true art.

For every man driving force- this is a woman. Without a woman, even Napoleon would have been a simple idiot.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

When you have six feet of earth above you, everyone loves you.

You can put on shoes and a suit, you can comb your hair and look pretty, you can hide your true self behind a smile, you can go to church and defend mass, you can judge others based on the color of their skin, you can lie until you die, but you can never hide the fact that... that you are a moral cripple.

One part of me constantly worries that I am an ordinary loser, while the other fancies himself as the Lord God.

You have the whole world. How do you feel?
- How do you feel about being raped?

It's easy to live with your eyes closed, not understanding what you see.

Source – top-anthropos.com, Wikipedia, fishki.net, music-facts.ru, 24smi.org, ru.beatles.wikia.com.

John Lennon - life, creativity, love, quotes updated: October 28, 2017 by: website

Yulia Zharkova

“Lenin is riding in an armored car.
People (or “people”) shout: “Len-non! Len-non!”
Lenin: “Comrades! I’m not Len-non, I’m Lenin!”
People: “Len-non! Len-non!”
“I’m not Lennon, I’m Le... okay, quieter, uh... whatever it is (clears throat and sings):
"Let it be, let it be"
E-e-e.

Many people often tormented me with questions: “Why don’t you write about your Beatles, you know all their songs by heart and their biography from cover to cover!?” To which I, slowly adjusting my glasses, replied that any more or less adult person considers people who are fans of the Beatles to be 100% fools, such big-eared, jumping and laughing elephants for no reason (at best). At worst, he will want to take and poke his nose at the cheerful elephant-Beatlemaniac in tight pink jeans and the strict, smileless underground of the late 60s, into their black and purple velvet of depression and destroyed hopes, into the shiny black motorcycle jacket of James Dean or (even creepier ) into a bird torn to pieces in a fit of despair and protest Jim Morrison.

However, it is a sin to forget good old friends. Therefore, remembering my favorite Beatles (abudyuba-abdu-bai, ye-e-e!!!), oddly enough, this is just the first time I’m writing about them, frozen by just one thought: how many hundreds of thousands of journalists wrote from them, how many times! And what kind of monsters one must be so as not to lose oneself under such pressure and not be ground into the smallest powder by the merciless millstones of the great show-B. Perhaps one of the secrets of success was just the super-optimistic, life-affirming and sparkling “yeh yeh yeh”, which became their calling card and the strongest, positive defense mechanism. So, in 2000, we will say to our “the Beatles” “Yeh”! After all, they are our classics.

John Lennon's childhood (and youth)
John Winston Lennon was born at 6:30 am on October 9, 1940. With sirens wailing and bombs exploding: that terrible night, Nazi aircraft carried out one of many devastating raids on the city. At such hours, many felt a surge of patriotism, and Lennon’s mother Julia, who gave her middle name, Winston, in honor of the then Prime Minister of England Winston Churchill, was no exception.

We, Beatlemaniacs, cover our ears and read biographers who write about what a hell of a badass dear Jonik was. Lennon's character became more unbearable when his mother died in a car accident. He was cruel to girls, including his beloved Cynthia, whom he often beat and insulted. Studying at the Art College caused terrible contradictions in him. Being the brightest and most gifted, he could not stand the monotony of going to the same (no matter what!) institution. According to classmates, he walked hunched over, wearing a terrifying long black overcoat, gloomy and filled with poison. The bitterness and sadness caused by sudden departure the most beloved and closest person to him then - Julia. Here is one of his songs: “My mother died. It hurts so much that nothing can be said or sung...” There is also his soulful, already late hit “Julia” (from the “White Album”):

"Julia is a child of the ocean,
Silent cloud
Sleeping sand beckons me.
Her hair is like the changing sky
They pour and shimmer in the sun.”

John Lennon, a dark, witty individualist and rebel, was in conflict with everyone except his Aunt Mimi, who raised him. He was looking forward to the end of his protracted childhood, waiting for the very hour when...

Lennon with bugs
« Quarryman“- this was the name of Lennon’s first ensemble in his life, where he himself sang and unimportantly played the guitar with bungee chords. They performed at parties and even received some pennies for it. Their repertoire consisted mainly of songs Elvis(at which Lennon slightly squinted), Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. McCartney turned out to be the only one whom Lennon considered (after several sleepless nights) his equal. Although at first, having heard how dashingly this guy plays and sings, clad in indecently tight trumpet jeans, with a crazy haircut on his head, he had difficulty hiding his admiration under a mask of careless condescension. He was also shocked by the fact that McCartney was already composing his own compositions (at the age of 14!), and they were quite cool. Here you have already half the Beatles (then even non-Beatles). "Next" was George Harrison, also younger than the first two, but terribly seriously craving real pickles.

Stuart Sutcliffe And Pete Best never went down in history as loudly as Ringo Star(Richard Starkey), who came to the group much later. Although Stu was a very, very close friend of Lennon, played the bass guitar and was considered a gifted and the most promising painter in their college. He was smart, handsome, talented and in love, but his life was tragically cut short at the age of 21. Until the end of his days, Lennon considered this loss almost no less tragic and irreplaceable than the death of his mother. After Stu's death, there was some time of despondency and disbelief in the success of the group called " BEATLES"when THAT SAME thing was just around the corner... That same thing, the incomparable phenomenon of the mid-twentieth century - BEATLEMANIA.

Lennon and People
“The Love You Make” - “The love you make” is the title of one of the millions of books written by the Beatles’ contemporaries, who constantly fought and argued with each other. However, their number is still insignificant in comparison with the number of their mere mortal fans, who from absolutely normal turned into half-insane. Especially teenagers. There are countless examples - usually the same story - a 15-16 year old girl who furiously runs to the box office and buys a ticket to a concert. It seems to her that if she puts on her makeup especially carefully and does her best hair, then one of THEM (for example, Lennon) will look at her all evening. And you also need to scream as loudly as possible in order to attract attention - and so millions thought! All the girls came to the concerts in their best outfits, screamed heart-rendingly and often lost consciousness. The largest percentage of love went to McCartney (baby!), Lennon was in second place, and Harrison and Ringo shared third place. Imagine the fate of the wives of our idols! It was, of course, Cynthia, John’s wife, who was most bitter, since he was the first of them to marry. The hatred for Cynthia was, of course, powerful. Desperate fans attacked her all the time with letters, phone calls and sometimes even attacks, literally, in the dark from around the corner. At some point, Cynthia stopped paying attention to them and was afraid of them.

Oh, how touching are the rebellious diaries of schoolgirls in love! “...I look at him, and it’s like in a dream: just me and John... I came home to a room covered with his photographs, and when everything seemed sad and hopeless, I put on their music and cried, listening to his voice, such beloved and close... It seemed that he sang only for me, to console and calm me down... My parents said: “Nothing, it will pass! At this age it is often It happens! And I shouted to them at the top of my voice: “Never! Never! Never!!!"

But it wasn't just the girls who were going crazy. The record-breaking concert remains unsurpassed to this day, when during its broadcast throughout good old America not a single crime was committed! This is the only case in world history. This was “the love they received” in return for the love they gave.

Lennon and the party
- Why are you not interested in politics?

John: We're interested in her. We are not interested in politicians.

Well, in general, this is Lennon’s attitude towards all sorts of guys heading various social institutions. You can also add that he was against any wars (textbook truths) and sang: “Give peace a chance”, “All you need is love”, “Imagine all the people leaving life in peace” - that is, “give peace a chance ", "all you need is love", "imagine if all people lived in peace." I completely agree with him and I also hate politicians, so here we are with him - berries of the same breed FOREVER...

Berry in the field forever
Strawberry fields forever
or – translation of songs from English. language in Russian,
or – a little about domestic Beatlemaniacs.

These are, in fact, those who caught pirate channels on the radio, pushing through interference, echoes (there is no other way to say it) of Beatles songs and at the same time falling into complete nirvana with happiness. Those who were kicked out of school for having long hair. Those whom exemplary Komsomol members were obliged to call nothing other than “parasites, moral monsters” or (with sacred hatred) dudes!! Those who fell in love and were loved, who cried and laughed for real and did not know how to pretend... This, in general, was almost an entire class stratum of the society of the then USSR. Led by the world famous Kolya Vasin, the main Soviet Beatlemaniac, whom the Beatles themselves placed on the cover of their disc " Sergeant Pepper"among the people they would like to see at their concerts.

Lennon and laziness
I remember my parents used to have an expression: “What do you care? Lennon? (go to the store, wash the dishes, etc.) For some reason, Lennon is considered the leader of the Beatles. Of course, this is not entirely true, although it can be argued that he was precisely an ideological inspirer, and not a hard worker and embodiment of ideas, like Paul McCartney. Lennon could, for example, do absolutely nothing all day, in his words: “Wake up and immediately start doing nothing.” He sat on the step leading from the house to the garden and silently looked ahead all day. So the words “Lennon” and laziness are also – ha ha – on the same page...

But this is precisely how he saved energy, which he spent terribly uneconomically. More than the other Beatles, he worked hard for the music. Oh, how reverently he treated her...

What does this lead to?

Lennon is still alive today
He lost touch
With a world that does not exist (lyrics by Grebenshchikov).

Many foam at the mouth to prove the opposite (that it exists). But it is still not easy to determine in which spaces John Lennon, the idol of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of planet Earth, now lives. He left his mortal body in 1980, on December 8, 1980, at about 11 o’clock in the evening, a maniac (don’t mention his name again) shot him five times at point-blank range. Lennon died on the way to the hospital.

But we know that a part of him is still left to us in his songs, we listen to his poems, immerse ourselves in his music and for some time we see everything in this world through his eyes, we laugh at his jokes or are sad, as Lennon was sad. And we are happy without even understanding why. Maybe because we are faced with real IMMORTALITY... And we love Lennon. He is somewhere out there, on the diamond clouds, in the eternal strawberry meadows, waving his hand at us and smiling... How can you not love him!!?

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John Winston Ono Lennon(born John Winston Lennon) was an English rock musician, singer, artist, writer, actor and peace activist who gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Beatles and de facto leader of the group. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting tandems in the history of rock and roll. Lennon showed the world his rebellious nature and natural intelligence on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night, the books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, and in his work as a campaigner for world. The musician has two sons - Julian (from his first marriage to Cynthia Powell) and Sean (from his second marriage to artist Yoko Ono).

John Lennon was born in a Liverpool maternity hospital on Oxford Street to Julia Lennon (nee Stanley) and Alfred Lennon during a Nazi air raid. Julia's sister, Maria (“Aunt Mimi”) Smith walked almost four kilometers to the maternity hospital through dark streets, only flashes from explosions lit her way. The born boy was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, and his second name was given in honor of Winston Churchill. During the war, John's father worked as a sailor on a merchant ship, and therefore was rarely at home, but he regularly sent money to Julia, who lived with her son at number 9 on Newcastle Road. However, in 1943, Lennon Sr. went AWOL and stopped sending money to his family. A year later, he returned home and invited Julia to live together, but she, being pregnant from another man, refused. Under considerable pressure from her sister Mimi, Julia gave the child to her. In July 1946, Alfred visited Mimi and took his son to Blackpool, hoping to escape with him to New Zealand. Julia followed her ex-husband and son, and after a heated quarrel, the father allowed five-year-old John to choose which parent he would stay with. John chose Alfred twice, but when Julia began to leave, the boy ran after her, crying. After this, father and son lost touch until the height of Beatlemania.

John spent his childhood and adolescence in the home of Aunt Mimi and her husband George Smith in Walton, 251 Menlow Avenue. The Smiths had no children of their own, so they cared only about John: Mimi bought volumes of novels for the boy, and George (died June 5, 1955), who worked on his family's farm, did crossword puzzles with him and bought him his first musical instrument - harmonica. Julia visited her sister's house almost every day, and when John was 11 years old, he began to often visit his mother in Bloomfield Road in Liverpool. Julia taught her son to play the banjo and played him Elvis Presley records; the first song he learned then was Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That A Shame.”

Lennon was raised in the Anglican faith and attended primary school Dowdale until, based on the results of the qualifying exams, he entered Quarry Bank Grammar School, where he studied from 1952 to 1957. He was a carefree child, drew funny caricatures and imitated his teachers.

In 1957, Julia bought Lennon his first guitar, a cheap Gallotone Champion acoustic, and insisted that the gift be delivered to her house rather than Mimi's, as her aunt hoped John would give up music. However, his mother was skeptical of Lennon’s claims that he would become a celebrity, and often repeated: “The guitar is, of course, good, John, but you will never be able to make money with it.”

On July 15, 1958, Julia was hit by a policeman's car on Menlow Avenue, not far from Mimi's house. The death of the mother became the bond between Lennon and Paul McCartney, whose mother died of breast cancer on October 31, 1956.

Lennon failed his final exams and was only able to enter the Liverpool College of Art, and not without the help of the school principal and Aunt Mimi. Here Lennon met his future wife, Cynthia Powell, and future Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe. John was often distracted in class and ridiculed the teachers, which is why they refused to teach the future rock musician. Lennon failed his exams again, despite Cynthia's help, and left college before the start. last year training.

When Lennon decided to try making his own music, he and his school friend Eric Griffiths began taking lessons at Hunts Cross, although John soon abandoned them. In March 1957, Lennon founded the Quarry Men, and on July 6 of that year he met Paul McCartney. This happened at the second concert of the newly formed group during a celebration organized by St. Peter's Church in Walton Gardens.

McCartney's father told Paul that he would "get into a lot of trouble" with Lennon, but later allowed the Quarrymen to rehearse in his living room. McCartney convinced Lennon to recruit George Harrison into the band, and although John initially thought George was too young for this, he agreed to have the later legendary guitarist in his band after he played him the song "Raunchy".

Harrison became the lead guitarist of the Quarrymen, and Sutcliffe, who later joined, became the bassist. After changing several names, the group decided to settle on “The Beatles”. Lennon was always considered the leader of the group; according to McCarthy, “he was older, he was exactly the leader - more resourceful, smarter, and so on.”

Allan Williams became the Beatles' first manager in May 1960 after they played at his club, the Jacaranda. A couple of months later, he arranged for them to perform at Bruno Koschminder's club Indra in Hamburg, Germany. Aunt Mimi was horrified to hear about this and begged John to continue his studies. After the first tour, Stuart Sutcliffe left the band to focus on his paintings and girlfriend Astrid Kircher, his departure forcing McCarthy to start playing bass. Comshminder later reported to the police an "arson attempt" by McCarthy and drummer Pete Best, who attached a condom to a nail and set it on fire in the Bumby cinema where they were staying. The musicians were deported from the country along with the minor Harrison. A couple of days later, John’s work permit was also revoked, after which he went home by train.

After Harrison turned 18 and the illegal employment problems were resolved, the Beatles returned to Hamburg in April 1961 for another series of performances. While in Hamburg, they recorded the song "My Bonnie" with Tony Sheridan. In April 1962, the Beatles went to Hamburg for the third time, this time to the Star-Club, and learned that Sutcliffe had died two days before their arrival. This was another blow for Lennon after the death of his mother and uncle.

On November 9, 1961, after a performance at the Cavern club, the Beatles met their second manager, Brian Epstein. On January 24, 1962, the group signed a contract with him for four years, and this event greatly influenced the further activities of the Beatles. McCartney later said: "If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian."

On May 9, 1962, George Martin signed the Beatles to EMI's Parlophone record label. After the first recording session, Martin expressed his dissatisfaction with the work of drummer Pete Best, after which it was decided that Ringo Star, who played drums in the group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, would join the Beatles, and Epstein was instructed to tell Best about his departure from the group. Epstein fired Best on August 16, 1962. On October 5 of that year, the Beatles released their first double-sided single, “Love Me Do/P.S.” I Love You", the album reached number 17 in the UK charts. On February 11, 1963, the group recorded their first album, Please Please Me, in just 24 hours, while Lennon was sick with a cold. Lennon and McCartney took about an hour or two to write a song - they usually did it in hotels after concerts, at the house on Wimpole Street where Jane Asher lived, on Cavendish Avenue where McCartney lived, or at Lennon's house in Kenwood.

The album and single reached number one in the British charts, and therefore EMI invited its subsidiary Capitol Records to publish it in the United States, but it rejected the offer. Epstein managed to secure a deal with Vee-Jay Records, which primarily deals with black rhythm and blues and pre-sung music. Neither the single nor its accompanying album, Introducing The Beatles, became popular in America. By the time the band recorded "She Loves You," Vee Jay's record label had dropped them, and Capitol was once again unwilling to release their recordings. EMI had to release the single through an unknown label, Swan Records, and the record reached number one in the charts in January after Capitol Records finally released the single "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in the US. After this, the group took part in the historic episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, which began a two-year non-stop period of “Beatlemania”: the group constantly went on international tours, made films and wrote hits. Lennon managed to write two books during this time - “In His Own Write” and “A Spaniard in the Works”, and the Beatles received recognition from the British establishment, becoming members of the Order of the British Empire in 1965.

In mid-1962, Cynthia discovered she was pregnant, and John married her on August 23 of that year. Epstein felt that a married Beatle might dampen fans' feelings and insisted that the newlyweds keep their marriage a secret. On April 8, 1963, John and Cynthia's first child, John Charles Jullian Lennon, named after the musician's mother, was born at Sefton Hospital.

Lennon complained that due to the screaming of the fans, no one could hear the band play, and the Beatles' equipment began to suffer because of this. In 1965, Lennon wrote the song “Help!”, gained a lot of weight, and claimed that he was subconsciously asking for help and looking for changes in his life.

Change came on March 4, 1966, when Lenon said during an interview with the British newspaper London Evening Standard: “Christianity will disappear. It will gradually disappear. I don’t know what will disappear first - rock and roll or Christianity... Now we (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus.” Five months later, the American teen magazine Datebook put the last part of this quote on its cover, causing protests from residents of the American Bible Belt. Conservative Americans staged public burnings of Beatles records and memorabilia, radio stations took the band's compositions off the air, and concert halls canceled scheduled performances. Even the Vatican took part in publicly condemning the group.

On August 11, 1966, the group held a press conference in Chicago to calm the raging passions. John's attempts to explain himself failed, resulting in him simply apologizing to the public. The Vatican accepted the apology, and soon the passions subsided, but after this incident the Beatles did not give any more scheduled concerts and decided to stop touring.

Lennon later wrote: “I always thank Jesus for the end of my traveling; If I hadn't said that the Beatles were "cooler than Jesus" and thereby upset the Christian Ku Klux Klan, then, Lord, I would still be driving around with the rest of the concert fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus."

There are two versions of when John could have met Yoko Ono: at the end of 1965, when she helped work on a book by composer John Cage, or on November 9, 1966, when the artist was preparing her exhibition of conceptual art at the Indica Gallery. On August 24, 1967, the Beatles met with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who introduced them to transcendental meditation, later group went to the Welsh city of Bangor, and spent the beginning of 1968 in the Maharishi's ashram (monastery) in India.

The trip turned out to be quite productive, during which time the musicians managed to write many songs that made up the next two albums.
However, on August 27, 1967, Epstein died from an overdose of sleeping pills, and Alan Klein became the new manager - this decision was made by the group contrary to the opinion of McCartney, who wanted his son-in-law, Lee Eastman, to handle the group's affairs. Due to financial problems that began after Epstein's death, tensions rose within the group.

Returning home in May 1968, Lennon cheated on Cynthia, who had gone to Greece on vacation, with Ono. That same year, Cynthia filed for divorce, and on November 21, 1968, Yoko had a miscarriage. Despite an unspoken agreement that the band members would not bring their girlfriends or wives to the recording sessions, Ono began to be a frequent presence at the music sessions - this annoyed George, Ringo and Paul. In turn, Paul, who became the artistic leader of the group, irritated John, and as a result, these disagreements led to the inevitable collapse of the group.

In 1968, Ringo Starr briefly left the group, and on January 10, 1969, during the filming of Let It Be, Harrison left the group, returning two days later after the group met at Starr's house. Lennon left the Beatles in September 1969, but agreed not to make a statement about it while the group renegotiated the terms of its record contract. However, in April 1970, McCartney released an interview in which he spoke about his departure from the group. When John found out about this, he exclaimed: “Lord Jesus! He took all the credit for it!” In 1970, Jan Wenner recorded an interview with Lennon, which was broadcast on BBC Radio in 2005. In the interview, the musician spoke about the bitterness he felt towards McCartney and the hostility of the other band members towards Yoko Ono. However, despite differences with the rest of the former Beatles, John spoke of them warmly: “I still love them. The Beatles are over, but John, Paul, George and Ringo are still alive."

At the end of 1968, Lennon, along with the supergroup Dirty Mac, took part in the Rolling Stones film Rock and Roll Circus. On March 20, 1969, John and Yoko got married, and soon the musician released a series of lithographs "Bag One", depicting scenes from the couple's honeymoon; 8 of the drawings were considered obscene and confiscated from sale. In March 1969, the newlyweds left for Honeymoon to Amsterdam, where they gave a “bed interview”, and then repeated it in Montreal, while simultaneously recording the song “Give Peace a Chance”. That same year, in protest of the Vietnam War, Lennon returned his OBE to the Queen.

In 1969, even before breaking up with the Beatles, at the rock and roll festival in Toronto, John recorded his first solo album, “Live Peace in Toronto,” with the participation of The Plastic Ono Band. Lennon and Ono recorded three albums of experimental music together: Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, more famous for its cover than for its content (noises and snippets of the music session), Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions and Wedding Album. Lennon also recorded three solo singles: the anti-war anthem "Give Peace a Chance", "Cold Turkey" and "Instant Karma!". In 1970, after the breakup of the Beatles, John released the very emotional album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” which expressed the musician’s longing for his deceased mother and the defunct band. Due to the presence of the word “fucking” in the lyrics, the song “Working Class Hero” was banned from airplay on BBC radio.

The album "Imagine" followed in 1971, the title track of which became the anthem of many anti-war movements, and the song "How Do You Sleep?" Many saw it as a dig at McCartney, although Lennon later claimed that he wrote it about himself. On August 31, 1971, the musician flew from England to New York, where in December he recorded the single “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).” As an advertisement, John and Yoko placed a poster in Times Square that read “WAR IS OVER” in large letters and “if you want it” in small letters. In 1972, the album “Some Time in New York City” was released, recorded with the group Elephant's Memory. It contained songs about women's rights, relations between different races, the British role in the events in Northern Ireland and John's problems with getting an American Green Card Lennon had been interested in left-wing politics since the late 60s, and probably donated money to the Trotskyist Labor Revolutionary Party.

On December 10, 1971, Lennon took part in the Free John Sinclair concert (as part of the movement to free the poet and anti-war activist from prison) with the newly written song "John Sinclair", later included in "Some Time in New York City". В 1972 году Леннон выпустил песню «Woman Is the Nigger of the World», причем многие радиостанции отказались транслировать. On August 30, 1972, Lennon and Elephant's Memory gave two charity concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden, the proceeds of which went to support the patients of the mental hospital at the Willowbrook State School. These were John's last full-scale concerts. Also The year began a protracted struggle between Lennon and the Nixon administration for the right to live in the United States, which completely ended in 1976, already under President Ford.

In June 1973, John and Yoko quarreled, the artist decided that they should separate, offering her assistant May Pang to her husband as a companion. Although the musician later referred to the 18 months of separation from his wife as “The Lost Weekend,” he used this time to patch up relationships with the other Beatles and spend some time with his son Julian, who had not seen his father since John left for New York. York. In November 1973, Lennon, on behalf of the Plastic U.F. Ono Band, released the album Mind Games. At the same time, he wrote the song “I"m the Greatest” for Starr’s album “Ringo” and released the song “Too Many Cooks (Spoil The Soup)” by Mick Jagger.

In September 1974, John released the album “Walls and Bridges” and a duet single with Elton John, “Whatever Gets You Thru the Night.” A little later, he wrote the song “Goodnight Vienna” for Starr. On November 28, Lennon took part in an Elton John concert, losing a bet over whether their duet would reach number one on the charts. In addition to this song, the former Beatle performed “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “I Saw Her Standing There.” Among those invited to the concert was Yoko Ono, with whom Lennon soon made peace. In January, the musician helped record the song “Fame,” David Bowie’s first hit to hit the top line of the American charts, and in February 1975, John hastily released an album of covers, “Rock “n” Roll.”

Lennon's last appearance on stage was on April 18, 1975. special issue ATV channel "A Salute to Lew Grade", where he performed the songs "Imagine", "Stand By Me", "Slippin" and Slidin". In October 1975, John fulfilled his commitment to EMI/Capitol by releasing the hits collection Shaved Fish. On October 9, 1975, on John's 35th birthday, his second son, Sean Ono Lennon, was born. The following June, Lennon recorded the song "Cookin' (In The Kitchen of Love)" with Ringo Starr.

In 1977, John announced that he was taking three years off to raise Sean, whom he called “my pride.” He returned from his “vacation” in 1980, celebrating this in November with the release of his last lifetime album, “Double Fantasy,” in the creation of which Yoko also participated. In June, John and Sean went on a sea voyage to Bermuda, during which he wrote songs for the album, and there he came up with the name - thanks to a variety of freesia that he saw in the Bermuda Botanical Garden. Having released this album, he planned to create the next one, “Milk and Honey,” for which he had already written enough material.

On the evening of December 8, 1980, John and Yoko were returning home from the Hit Factory recording studio when at approximately 10:49 New York time, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon four times in the back at the entrance to the Dakota building where the musician and his wife lived. Earlier that day, the former Beatle gave Chapman an autograph. At 11:07, the musician was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, where he died suddenly. Chapen was sentenced to 20 years in prison, he is still in a New York prison, all requests for clemency that he submitted were rejected.

Lennon's body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in New York, and his ashes were given to Yoko. Three weeks before his death, the musician fired his security guard because he believed that any killer would shoot the bodyguard first. Within a few hours of the incident, the musician said in an interview with RKO radio that he felt completely safe in New York. And while still a Beatle, when asked what he thought about his death, Lennon replied: “Some crazy person will probably kill me.”

Posthumously, with the assistance of Lennon's widow, two of his albums were released - "Milk and Honey" in 1984 and "Menlove Ave" in 1986. Among the awards awarded by the BRIT Awards, which the musician received while still a member of the Beatles, are “For outstanding achievements in music over the past 25 years”, “Best British group for the last 25 years" and "Best British Album for the Last 25 Years" ("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") in 1977, "For Outstanding Achievement in Music" in 1983. His solo career was awarded " Grammy" for album of the year "Double Fantasy" and BRIT Awards "For outstanding achievements in music" in 1982. In 2002, as a result of voting by the BBC, Lennon was ranked eighth in the list of "The 100 Greatest Britons", in 2004. In 2008, The Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 38th on its list of the “Fifty Greatest Musicians of All Time,” and in 2008, the same magazine ranked him fifth among the “One Hundred Greatest Singers of All Time.”

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 to Alfred Lennon and Julia Stanley. Immediately after this, Fred disappeared from view, leaving his family, and John Julia remarried and gave her son to be raised by her sister. John's father did not remind him of himself for many years, but decided to meet with him only at the height of Beatlemania and even released his own single with the song "Here's My Life." Along with humor and artistry, John inherited from his parents a strong character, which throughout his life allowed him to only be a leader.

He felt his first taste of popularity thanks to his school drawings, but decided to devote his life to poetry and music. John's friends, Ivan Vaughan and Pete Shotton, supported his musical passions, and even fostered a new friendship. They brought Paul McCartney into their ensemble, and Lennon’s place in music was determined for life, and the wheels of the success machine began to spin. And the mother’s life was cut short under the wheels of a car. At age 18, John suffered a devastating loss.

He entered the Liverpool College of Art, and there he made his closest friends of those years, Stu and Cynthia. Stuart Sutcliffe (1940-1962) coincided with him in tastes in art and outlook on life like no one else. He became a bass player and a member of an ensemble, but had no interest in concerts and did not rely on rock and roll. He takes up painting again, stays in Hamburg to live with Astrid Kirchner, and soon dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. Having barely survived the loss of Jonata, John married Cynthia Powell (b. 1939) and received from her a son, Julian (b. 1963). But his father left the family.

Yoko Ono came to London for a symposium on contemporary art. John visited her exhibition in London, met her, helped her as a sponsor with the next exhibition, and finally felt the kind of love that could distract him from Cynthia and his son, and even from the BEATLES, but give meaning and content to his new creativity. From that time on, Lennon was involved in all of Yoko's projects, and she also began participating in BEATLES recordings. Even before the breakup, John created new group, and named after Ono, and he himself officially became Ono Lennon. After the death of Brian Epstein, which was a great loss, after the divorce from Cynthia, after the collapse of the BEATLES, the Ono Lennons settled in a Georgian mansion, and from the early 70s they moved to New York. Lennon returns his MBE to the Queen and breaks all ties with his homeland. Having gone through a crisis and an almost two-year break with Yoko, he breaks off relations with the outside world and, when his son Sean is born, becomes only a housewife and child's teacher. As if starting again, in 1980, John and Yoko released the album “Double” Fantasy" and started another, expressing the hope that "there are still forty years of life and work ahead"...
In the BEATLES, rhythm guitarist John Lenon embodied intelligence and rebellion, being a genuine driving force quartet. “When you are standing on the edge of an abyss and are blue in the face, jump or retreat, jump!” . This is a thought I often heard from John McCartney, the only person who could keep him grounded in reality until it changed in the 70s.

So, today is Saturday, June 10, 2017, and we traditionally offer you answers to the quiz in the “Question and Answer” format. We encounter questions ranging from the simplest to the most complex. The quiz is very interesting and quite popular, we are simply helping you test your knowledge and make sure that you have chosen the correct answer out of the four proposed. And we have another question in the quiz - Which member of the Beatles was given the middle name Winston at birth?

• A. George Lennon
• B. Paul McCartney
• C. George Harrison
• D. Ringo Starr

The correct answer is A - George Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon) was an English rock musician, singer, artist, writer, actor and peace activist who gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Beatles and de facto leader of the group. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting tandems in the history of rock and roll. Lennon showed the world his rebellious nature and natural intelligence on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night, the books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, and through his work as a peace activist. The musician has two sons - Julian (from his first marriage to Cynthia Powell) and Sean (from his second marriage to artist Yoko Ono).