John Lennon ( b36 )

Accolades

The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of the 20th century. As performer, writer or co-writer, Lennon had 25 number one singles in the US Hot 100 chart. His album sales in the US stand at 14 million units. Double Fantasy was his best-selling solo album, at three million shipments in the US. Released shortly before his death, it won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. The following year, the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music was given to Lennon.

Participants in a 2002 BBC poll voted him eighth of "100 Greatest Britons". Between 2003 and 2008, Rolling Stone recognised Lennon in several reviews of artists and music, ranking him fifth of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and 38th of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", and his albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, 22nd and 76th respectively of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) with the other Beatles in 1965 (returned in 1969). Lennon was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Discography

• Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (with Yoko Ono) (Apple, 1968)
• Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions (with Yoko Ono) (Zapple, 1969)
• Wedding Album (with Yoko Ono) (Apple, 1969)
• John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (Apple, 1970)
• Imagine (Apple, 1971)
• Some Time in New York City (with Yoko Ono) (Apple, 1972)
• Mind Games (Apple, 1973)
• Walls and Bridges (Apple, 1974)
• Rock 'n' Roll (Apple, 1975)
• Double Fantasy (with Yoko Ono) (Geffen, 1980)
• Milk and Honey (with Yoko Ono) (Geffen, 1984)

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