Early years
John Winston Ono Lennon was an english singer-songwriter who stormed the world with his band, the Beatles. He promoted peace with his fame and changed the world forever.
He was born in 1940 in Liverpool, England during a German air strike in the World War II where he also grew up with his parents, Julia Lennon and Alfred Lennon. His father was often away from home and wasn’t present at his birth, but sent regular pay cheques to where they lived. Julia and Alfred separated when John was only 4 years old and he then ended up living with his aunt, Mimi.
John Lennon’s mother remarried with John Dykins, but visited him and Mimi regularly. She taught John how to play the piano and banjo and she also bought his first guitar. John’s dad, Alfred, turn up sometimes and took him to Blackpool once, considering of emigrating to New Zealand. Julia, and her partner at the time, followed them and it ended up with Alfred forcing five-year-old John Lennon to choose between them. It took 20 years before John had any contact with his dad again, and he had not been much present at John’s childhood either.
In July 1958, Julia was struck and killed by a car driven by an off-duty police officer and this was to become the most traumatic event of John’s life.
John enjoyed trouble and was a prankster as child. He did though do fairly well in school. He liked to draw grotesque figures and cripples and his gift was hard to miss. His school master saw John’s artistic talent and it made him think that he could go to an art school for college since he did not get good grades. John did not have many opportunities or ambitions to success, but he had a dream of becoming a Rock star from a young age.
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Chapman remained at the scene after murdering John Lennon and was reading from J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye until the police arrived and arrested him. He repeatedly told them that the novel was his statement. He then instructed his lawyer that he wanted to plead guilty based on what he thought was the “will of God” and he remains in prison until today.
John tragically died at New York City’s Roosevelt Hospital on 8th December 1980 at the age of 40. John Lennon’s life had, and has today, a big impact on pop culture and he continues to be admired by new generations of fans around the globe. John was posthumously initiated into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 because of him showing that rock music could also mean peace, and not just partying.
	John Paul was born in the small fishing village of Arbigland, Scotland on July 6, 1747. To his parents John Paul and Jean MacDuff he was the fourth child. They had seven children but unfortunately all but two died in infancy. The family was originally from Fife but John Paul's father had taken the family and moved to Arbigland where William Craik, the owner of a large estate their had met him and hired him to be his gardener.
John Adams was born in Braintree, what is now Quincy, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1735. His father was a farmer, a deacon of the First Parish of Braintree, and a militia officer. John's mother came from a leading family of Brookline and Boston merchants and physicians. John studied hard in the village school. He was twenty three years old when he graduated from Harvard in the class of 1755. He began to practice law in Braintree in 1758. John and Abigail first met in 1759.
John Michael Osbourne was born to John Thomas Osbourne and his wife Lillian on December 3rd, 1948. His residence was located at 14 Lodge Road, Aston, Birmingham, England. John Thomas was a professional tool maker and Lillian worked at the Lucas car factory.
(44)" Holden and Mark David Chapman ‘s traumatizing childhoods may differ in content but affected both young men in an immense way. Both had trouble processing what had happened to them and it contributed to a major emotional downfall. Moreover, similar beliefs linked Chapman and Holden as well. "Holden Caulfield and Mark Chapman were faced with the same crisis: an assault on innocence. (249)" Holden and Chapman wanted to preserve innocence. Although, at the end of the book, Holden ends up giving up on this and is put into a psychiatric facility. Chapman killed John Lennon as his attempt to preserve the purity of society. Holden gives some insight on his beliefs claiming that "Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway. (136)" With this
John Lennon, The founding member of the Beatles and unofficial king of the hippies said in his final interview,
...as the highest of ethic values, the ideals that we hope to reach one day. The song inspired many people and gave them hope. Lennon will always be remembered for his inspirational and idealistic music that changed the way the world looked at things.
The story of the most legendary group in the history of popular music began in 1960, in Liverpool, England. The Beatles, were an English rock band, whose most well-known lineup, consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, is considered by many as the most innovative, emulated, and successful music group of the twentieth century. John Lennon was largely responsible for the development of the band, since he, together with Paul McCartney, wrote most of the music for the Beatles. Lennon is largely responsible for the Beatles being considered the first rock performers who were truly considered groundbreaking artists in their own time, and years after the band broke up, with his lyrics, “Beatlemania”, and the controversy that he caused the band.
John Wooden was from a small town called Hall, Indiana. He was born on October 14, 1910. A few years later, they moved to Monrovia, Indiana. His dad then took a job as a rural mail carrier. They still had a farm where he worked as well. When John was about to start second grade, his mom got a sixty-acre farm from her father. They lived on
The book, Catcher in the Rye, has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in America after its first publication. John Lennon’s assassin Mark Chapman, asked the former Beatle to sign a copy of the book earlier in the morning of the day he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in his possession upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book itself contains nothing that might have lead Chapman to act as he did. It could have been just any book that he was reading the day he decided to kill John Lennon and as a result, it was the Catcher in the Rye, a book describing a nervous breakdown, that caused the media to speculate widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more recognition. The character Holden Caulfield ponders the thoughts of death, accuses ordinary people of being phonies, and expresses his love for his sister through out the novel. So what is the book Catcher in the Rye really about?
John is overwhelmed by all the people that he sees that are all the same. He tries to fit in by focusing all his heart and energy into Lenina. However when he realizes that she has fully succumbed to the ways of the brave new world and she is truly lost, he realizes that he can’t start a life there with her. Shortly after that John’s mother, Linda, died from soma. All the soma intake caused her lungs to give out.
“Imagine” by John Lennon, released in 1971, was one of the most influential, and important songs of the last 50 years. This track was viewed as his final statement on religion after many years of confusing mixed signals (WND). Lennon constantly calls upon the power of Imagery to appoint his ideas throughout the song, hence the title. Imagery is the formation of figures, ideas, and mental images through diction (Dictionary.com). Many of the ideas Lennon creates are supported, and even inspired by real life events. In John Lennon's “Imagine”, he uses the power of Imagery and applicable real life events to portray an idealistic Utopia.
The novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger has had a lasting influence to readers. However, it has also inspired some people to murder others. The Catcher in the Rye is not a violent book, so it is odd that people, who have related to book, became murderers from it. The two most notable people who have murdered or attempted to murder people because of their obsession to the novel are Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley, but there are even more.
John Lennon was born on October 9th 1940 in Liverpool, England 1. His father left the family to sail the seas before Lennon’s earliest childhood memory and his mother was taken away by a car accident when he was 18 2. A year after his mother’s death, the Vietnam War took place, which is The United State’s longest military dispute ever. The world famous band, The Beatles, debut on 1961 not long after the start of the war and through this band, Lennon was able to demonstrate his feelings to the people across the world. "Revolution," performed by The Beatles, was created in 1968, when the anti-war demonstration was on the move. After the separation of The Beatles in 1969, Lennon composed the song "Imagine" (1971) 3. This song proves that Lennon is a Peace-Loving-Atheist and a "Voluntarist" 4 that believes in the scheme that people’s ideas can change social reality; however simultaneously admits that there are constantly wars going on in the world. As a result, he could be a mixture of all four, Realist, Liberal, Marxist and Constructivist. On December 8th 1980, approximately five years after the end of the Vietnam War, Lennon was assassinated by Mark Chapman 5. It is not for certain that the word assassination could be used on a singer, song writer who also published books. However there is no doubt about the fact that Lennon touched many people’s hearts around the world and maybe was even praised as an almighty figure.
John Lennon’s solo career was marked by experimentation and political activism. Most importantly, he proved that musicians could successfully reinvent and transform themselves, and carve out success on their own. To begin with John Lennon was a poor student and lasted only a year at art school, so thankfully music was a good back up plan. John Lennon would go on to put out albums such as “Power to the People” single and Imagine LP. These albums were more political and musically adventurous. Imagine was also marked by brutal honesty, between Lennon's admissions of cruel behavior on "Jealous Guy" and alleged digs at Paul McCartney throughout "How Do You Sleep?". Like everyone else in life, John Lennon had his ups and downs throughout the 1970’s. The albums Sometime In New York City and Mind Games did not replicate the success of his first two albums. Lennon was also trying to fight off being deported by the Nixon administration in 1973 due to his stance in politics. Things started to look up when his single “Whatever Gets You Through The Night” hit No. 1 in 1974. On December 8th, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot and killed Lennon outside his apartment in New York City. The entire world stopped to grief, and musical tributes poured in from all corners for years to come. John Lennon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
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