John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940  8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the band the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.

John Lennon (disambiguation)

John Lennon (1940–1980) was an English singer-songwriter and founding member of The Beatles.

John Lennon may also refer to:

  • John Brown Lennon (1850–1923), American labor union leader
  • SS John B. Lennon, a ship named after him
  • John Lennon (captain) (1768–1846), British naval captain
  • John Anthony Lennon (born 1950), American composer
  • Greek fisherman's cap, sometimes called a "John Lennon hat"
  • Liverpool John Lennon Airport
  • "John Lennon", a song by Arkells from the album Jackson Square
  • "John Lennon", a song by Hamell on Trial from the album The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword
  • John Lennon Park in Havana, Cuba
  • Lennon Wall, or "John Lennon Wall", a wall in Prague, Czech Republic, covered with John Lennon-inspired graffiti and pieces of lyrics from Beatles' songs.
  • John Lennon (Royal Navy officer)

    John Lennon (1768–1846), was a naval captain, born at Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1768. He is stated to have served as a midshipman in the British Royal Navy during the American Revolution. In 1796, when in command of the schooner Favorite of Martinique, carrying letters of marque, he was very severely wounded, and his ship was taken, after a fierce engagement of one hour and twenty minutes' duration, by a French privateer of very superior force.

    In 1798 he was in command of the General Keppel, also of Martinique, which was capsized in a white squall on passage from Philadelphia, when Lennon and some of his crew were rescued by a passing schooner, after suffering great perils and hardships. Lennon performed various daring feats in the West Indies in 1806–9; but his most remarkable exploits were in the Hibernia, a Cowes-built barque, carrying six guns and about twenty-two men and boys all told, in which he traded for some years from the West India island of St. Thomas. In 1812 orders were issued that no vessels should leave the island without convoy, on account of the American privateers. The Hibernia and three other merchantmen, whose aggregate cargoes were valued at half a million sterling, had long been waiting. Unwilling to detain them further, Governor Maclean agreed to their sailing without convoy, on condition of Lennon hoisting his pennant as commodore. Although harassed by the Rossie, Commodore Joshua Barney, an American privateer of superior force, Lennon brought his vessels safe into the English Channel on 18 October 1812.

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    Born: 1940-10-09

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    The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2025
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    The Daily Mail 23 Apr 2025
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    The Daily Mail 23 Apr 2025
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    New York Post 22 Apr 2025
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