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John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon, 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was a 20th-century English songwriter, singer and instrumentalist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of the Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for the Beatles and other artists .[1] Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, with his storytelling optimism and gift for melody, complemented one another uniquely.[2] In his solo career, Lennon wrote and recorded songs such as "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance".

Lennon revealed his rebellious nature and irreverent wit on television, in films such as A Hard Day's Night (1964), in books such as In His Own Write, and in press conferences and interviews. He channeled his fame and penchant for controversy into his work as a peace activist, artist, and author.

He had two sons: Julian, with his first wife Cynthia, and Sean, with his second wife, avant-garde artist Yoko Ono. Lennon was murdered in New York City on 8 December 1980 after he and Ono returned home from a recording session.

In 2002, respondents to a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted Lennon into eighth place.

Contents [hide]
1 Early years: 1940-1957
2 1957-1960: The Quarrymen and the Silver Beetles
3 1960-1970: The Beatles
4 1970-1975: Solo career
4.1 1980 - Starting over
5 Family life
5.1 Cynthia Lennon
5.2 Yoko Ono
5.3 May Pang and the 'lost weekend'
5.4 House-husband
6 Political and lifestyle controversies
6.1 Christianity
6.2 Political activism and the deportation battle
6.3 Recreational drug use
6.4 Meditation
6.5 Primal Therapy
6.6 Humour
6.7 Writing and art
7 Murder
7.1 Memorials and tributes
8 Pseudonyms
9 Miscellanea
10 Awards
10.1 With The Beatles
10.2 Solo career
11 Documentaries and films
12 Notes
13 References
14 External links



Early years: 1940-1957
John Winston Lennon was born on 9 October 1940, in the Oxford Street Maternity Hospital in Liverpool, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred "Freddie" Lennon,[3] during the course of a German air raid in World War II.[4] He was named after his paternal grandfather, John 'Jack' Lennon, and Winston Churchill.[4] Both parents played the banjo and sang (Freddie specialised in impersonating Al Jolson) though neither pursued music professionally.[5] Freddie Lennon was not present at John's birth. He was a merchant seaman during the war and sent regular pay cheques to Julia, who was living with John in Newcastle Road, Liverpool. The cheques stopped when Freddie went AWOL.[6] As Freddie was seldom in Liverpool, Julia started going out to dance halls and met a Welsh soldier called 'Taffy' Williams[7] by whom she became pregnant in late 1944.[8] When Freddie Lennon eventually came home in 1944 he offered to look after Julia, John, and the expected baby, but Julia rejected the idea.[9] On 19 June 1945 she gave birth to a daughter, Victoria,[10] who was given up for adoption after intense pressure from Julia's family (the girl was later re-named Ingrid) .[9] Lennon was not told about his half-sister's birth and never knew of her existence.[11]

Julia later met John 'Bobby' Dykins and moved into a small flat with him.[12] After comments on the still-married Julia 'living in sin' with Dykins[13][14] and after considerable pressure from her sister, Mary "Mimi" Smith — who contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about John sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins — Julia reluctantly handed the care of John over to Mimi.[14](Julia later had two daughters - Julia and Jackie - with Dykins.)[15] In July 1946, Freddie visited Mimi and took John to Blackpool for a long 'holiday', secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him.[16] Julia and Dykins found out and followed them, and after a heated argument Freddie made the five-year-old John choose between Julia or him. John chose Freddie (twice) and then Julia walked away, but John, crying, followed her.[11] Freddie then lost contact with the family until Beatlemania, when father and son met again.[17]


'Mendips' - Lennon's childhood home.Throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence, Lennon lived with his 'Auntie Mimi' and her husband George Smith (who had no children of their own) in a middle class area of Liverpool at 'Mendips' (251 Menlove Avenue). Family friends described Mimi as stubborn, impatient, and unforgiving,[17] but she also had a sense of humour. Often, when she criticised Lennon he would respond with a joke, and the two of them would be "rolling around, laughing together".[18] Mimi confided to a relative that although she had never wanted children, she had always wanted John.[18] Mimi and George gave Lennon all of their attention:[18] Mimi bought volumes of short stories, and George, who was a dairyman at a local farm, [16] engaged John in solving crossword puzzles and bought him a harmonica.[19] Julia Lennon visited 'Mendips' almost every day and John often visited her; she taught John how to play the banjo and the piano.[20] She also played Elvis Presley's records to John, and would dance around her kitchen with him.[21] Lennon was later inspired by Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Little Richard.

Lennon was raised as an Anglican,[22][23] and like much of the population of Liverpool, he had some Irish heritage. Lennon attended Dovedale County Primary School until he passed his Eleven-Plus exam. From September 1952 to 1957, he attended the Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool[24] where he was a "happy-go-lucky" pupil,[25] known for drawing comical cartoons and making fun of his teachers by mimicking their odd characteristics.[26]

Julia bought Lennon his first guitar, an inexpensive model that was "guaranteed not to split", but insisted it be delivered to her house and not Mimi's.[27] Mimi hoped that John would soon grow bored with it - she was sceptical of Lennon's claim that he would be famous one day, and often told him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it." Years later, when the Beatles were successful, John presented Mimi with a silver platter engraved with those words.[28]

George Smith died in 1955 [29][30] and on 15 July 1958 (when Lennon was 17) Julia was killed on Menlove Avenue by a car driven by a drunken, off-duty police officer — close to Mimi's house.[31][29] Her death was one of the most traumatic events in John's life and one of the factors that cemented his friendship with McCartney, who had lost his own mother to breast cancer in 1956.[32] Lennon named his firstborn son Julian after his mother, and later wrote the song, "Julia".

Lennon failed his grammar school exams by one grade. He was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art with help from his school's headmaster and his Aunt Mimi, who was insistent that John should have some sort of academic qualifications. It was there that he met his future wife, Cynthia Powell, when Lennon was a Teddy Boy.[33] Lennon failed his exams despite help from Powell, and dropped out before the last year.[34]


1957-1960: The Quarrymen and the Silver Beetles
Main articles: The Quarrymen and Lennon/McCartney
Lennon started the Quarry Men skiffle band in March 1957[35] whilst attending Quarry Bank Grammar School.[35] Their first engagement was on 9 June 1957 at an audition for impresario Carroll Lewsis, known as "Mr. Star-Maker."[36] A few weeks later, on 6 July 1957, Lennon and The Quarrymen met guitarist Paul McCartney at the Woolton Garden fête held at St. Peter's Church.[37] McCartney's father later allowed the Quarrymen to rehearse in his front room at 20 Forthlin Road.[38][39] During their early friendship Lennon encouraged McCartney to steal cigarettes, sweets, or books from shops,[40] and they found a shared interest in playing jokes on the other band members and on their teachers.[26]

McCartney convinced Lennon to allow George Harrison to join the Quarrymen - although Lennon considered Harrison to be too young - after Harrison played at a rehearsal in March 1958.[41] Harrison joined the group as lead guitarist,[42] and Stuart Sutcliffe (Lennon's art school friend) later joined as bassist.[43] The band switched to playing rock 'n' roll, using the name 'Johnny and The Moondogs', but Lennon found it too musically associated to skiffle. In 1960, the band changed its name five times. Stuart Sutcliffe suggested 'the Beetles' as a form of tribute to Buddy Holly and the Crickets, which he and Lennon then thought of changing to the 'Beatals'. They changed their name again to the 'Silver Beats', The Silver Beetles, and the 'Silver Beatles', but Lennon shortened it to the Beatles, to avoid being introduced as "Long John Silver of the Silver Beatles", which was too similar to 'Johnny and the Moondogs'. After a tour with Johnny Gentle in Scotland,[44][45] they changed their name to the 'Beatles'.[46]

Lennon was considered the leader of the Beatles, as he founded the original group. McCartney said, "We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader - he was the quickest wit and the smartest and all that kind of thing."[47][48]