John Lennon
Updated: Oct 9
The talented musician John Lennon who was born on October 9, 1940, has greatly influenced music and the whole world in so many and varied ways !!
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We would like to tell you some interesting facts about him:
1. When he was only 5 years old his father left home and his mother handed him over to her sister, "Mimi", who is known for saying over and over again to John: "The guitar's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it."
2. On November 28, 1974, he joined Elton John at "Madison Square Garden" for "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There". This was his last appearance at a major rock concert, but not his final public performance. On April 18, 1975, he performed at the televised "Salute to Sir Lew Grade".
3. At about 5 p.m. on December 8, 1980, he signed a copy of "Double Fantasy" for Mark David Chapman outside "The Dakota". Chapman murdered him later that night.
4. During the Beatles' tour he liked to play the game "Monopoly".
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5. John and Yoko hired a communicator (psychic) who guided them in their business decisions. He earned just like their accountants and lawyers.
6. John proposed Jesus and Adolf Hitler for the cover of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Jesus was excluded, and Hitler does not appear visibly on the released cover. Cover artist Peter Blake later said that Hitler's cutout had been hidden behind the band.
7. The first instrument John learned to play was the harmonica.
8. John's dentist, John Riley, introduced him to LSD when he put a pill in his coffee without noticing during a meal. Bob Dylan was the one who introduced him to marijuana.
9. In 1967 John purchased a small island called Dorinish off the coast of Ireland, at a cost of £1,700.
10. George Harrison was John's roommate during the tour.
11. The first time Yoko met John she did not even know he was part of the Beatles.
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12. Only during his adult life did John discover that he had dyslexia.
13. Before the band's tour in Japan, he studied Japanese for six weeks at the "Berlitz" language school in Manhattan.
14. John is the only member of the "Beatles" who has not become fully vegetarian. All the other "Beatles" yes.
15. When asked once what is the song with the best lyrics of the songs he wrote he replied: "All You Need Is Love" ".
(Photo: "Walls and Bridges" photo sessions)
16. When John received his driver's license, in February 1965, a number of luxury car dealerships began parking their cars in front of his home, hoping to be able to sell him a car.
17. His first band was "The Quarrymen". Since they had no rehearsal room, they wandered from place to place and played mostly in the bathroom at John's house.
18. Lennon had severe short-sightedness and astigmatism. During the Beatlemania years he often avoided wearing glasses in public and used rigid contact lenses, which frequently fell out.
19. In 1971, when John moved to New York, the FBI opened a case called "John Lennon" and investigated every aspect of John's life. They researched his works, his daily routine, his actions, and all this to find a reason to expel him from the United States, for fear that he had come to incite American youth.
20. John used to drink about 30-20 cups of tea and coffee a day.
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