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 18.05.1967 - John Lennon si Paul Mc Cartney canta backing vocal pe o inregistrare Rolling Stones, mai exact pentru piesa We Love You.

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 17.01.2003 - Este scoasa la licitatie o inregistrare pe care se aud cantand impreuna Mick Jagger si John Lennon.

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 21.11.1995 - The Beatles Anthology 1 was released in the US, featuring 60 tracks including the track ‘Free As A Bird’, a song originally composed and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon. In 1995 a studio version of the recording, incorporating contributions from Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr was released as a single by The Beatles.

John Lennon - Mother ( l1 )

Mother, you had me but I never had you

I wanted you, you didn't want me
So I, I just gotta tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Father, you left me but I never left you
I needed you, you didn't need me
So I, I just gotta tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

Children, don't do what I have done
I couldn't walk and I tried to run
So I, I just gotta tell you
Goodbye, goodbye

[4x]
Mamma, don't go
Daddy, come home

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 17.04.1971 - Toti cei 4 muzicieni din Beatles au piese simultan in topul Angliei: Paul McCartney ‘Another Day’, John Lennon, ‘Power To The People’, George Harrison, ‘My Sweet Lord’, Ringo Starr, ‘It Don’t Come Easy.’

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 24.08.1981 - Mark Chapman primeste 20 de ani de inchisoare pentru uciderea lui John Lennon.

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 24.02.1944 - s-a nascut Nicky Hopkins – pianist – a lucrat cu The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, John Lennon, The Who si Small Faces.

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Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963–64	Ready Steady Go!	Himself	Music program, 4 episodes
1964	Around the Beatles	Himself	Concert special
1964	What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.	Himself	Documentary
1964–65	The Ed Sullivan Show	Himself	Variety show, 4 episodes
1965	The Music of Lennon & McCartney	Himself	Variety tribute special
1965–66	Not Only... But Also	Lavatory Attendant / Guest	Episodes: "Episode #1.1" (1965) and "Christmas Special" (1966)
1966	The Beatles at Shea Stadium	Himself	Concert special
1966	The Beatles in Japan	Himself	Concert special
1969	Rape	Himself	Drama/thriller, sound, editor, writer, producer, director
1971–72	The Dick Cavett Show	Himself	Talk show, 3 episodes
1972	John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert	Himself	Concert special
1972	Imagine	Himself	Music film special
1975	A Salute to the Beatles: Once upon a Time	Himself	Documentary
1977	All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music	Himself	Documentary mini-series
1987	It Was Twenty Years Ago Today	Himself	Documentary
1995	The Beatles Anthology	Himself	Documentary mini-series
2000	Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album	Himself	Documentary
2000	John & Yoko's Year of Peace	Himself	Documentary
2008	Classic Albums: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	Himself	Documentary
2018	John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky	Himself	Documentary

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1971	Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family	Himself	Documentary
1971	Up Your Legs Forever	none	Producer, director
1971	Erection	none	Short film, producer, director
1971	Clock	Himself / Singer	Music, writer, producer, director
1971	Sweet Toronto	Himself	Concert film
1971	The Museum of Modern Art Show	Himself	Documentary short
1972	Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally	Himself	Documentary
1972	Eat the Document	Himself	Documentary
1976	Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol	Himself	Documentary
1977	The Day the Music Died	Himself	Documentary
1982	The Compleat Beatles	Himself	Documentary
1988	Imagine: John Lennon	Himself	Documentary
1990	The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit	Himself	Documentary
1996	The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus	Himself	Concert film from 1968
2003	Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon	Himself	Remastered music video collection
2006	The U.S. vs. John Lennon	Himself	Documentary
2006	John & Yoko: Give Peace a Song	Himself	Documentary
2007	I Met the Walrus	Himself (voice)	Short film, recorded 1969
2008	All Together Now	Himself	Documentary
2010	LennoNYC	Himself	Documentary
2016	The Beatles: Eight Days a Week	Himself	Documentary

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Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	A Hard Day's Night	Himself
1965	Help!	Himself
1967	Bottoms	Himself	Documentary
1967	How I Won the War	Gripweed
1967	Magical Mystery Tour	Himself / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee	Also narrator, writer and director (producer uncredited)
1967	Pink Floyd: London '66-'67	Himself (uncredited)	Documentary short
1968	Yellow Submarine	Himself	Cameo at the end
1968	Two Virgins	Himself	Short film, writer, producer, director
1968	No. 5	Himself	Short film, writer, producer, director
1969	Bed Peace	Himself	Writer, producer, director
1969	Honeymoon	Himself	Writer, producer, director
1969	Self-Portrait	Himself	Short film, writer, producer, director
1969	Walden (Diaries, Notes, and Sketches)	Himself	Documentary
1969	Muhammad Ali, the Greatest	Himself	Documentary
1970	Apotheosis	Himself	Short film, writer, producer, director
1970	Let It Be	Himself	Documentary (executive producer – as The Beatles)
1970	Fly	none	Short film, writer, producer, director
1970	Freedom	none	Short film, music, writer, producer, director
1970	3 Days in the Life	Himself	Documentary

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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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18.10.1957 - Paul McCartney apare pentru prima oara alturi de The Quarry Men. Din componenta faceau parte John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, si Len Garry.

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In 1997, Yoko Ono and the BMI Foundation established an annual music competition programme for songwriters of contemporary musical genres to honour John Lennon's memory and his large creative legacy. Over $400,000 have been given through BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarships to talented young musicians in the United States.

In a 2006 Guardian article, Jon Wiener wrote: "For young people in 1972, it was thrilling to see Lennon's courage in standing up to [US President] Nixon. That willingness to take risks with his career, and his life, is one reason why people still admire him today." For music historians Urish and Bielen, Lennon's most significant effort was "the self-portraits ... in his songs [which] spoke to, for, and about, the human condition."

In 2013, Downtown Music Publishing signed a publishing administration agreement for the US with Lenono Music and Ono Music, home to the song catalogues of John Lennon and Yoko Ono respectively. Under the terms of the agreement, Downtown represents Lennon's solo works, including "Imagine", "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)", "Power to the People", "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", "Jealous Guy", "(Just Like) Starting Over" and others.

"John Lennon" Star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California

Lennon continues to be mourned throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous memorials and tributes. In 2002, the airport in Lennon's home town was renamed the Liverpool John Lennon Airport. On what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday in 2010, Cynthia and Julian Lennon unveiled the John Lennon Peace Monument in Chavasse Park, Liverpool. The sculpture, entitled Peace & Harmony, exhibits peace symbols and carries the inscription "Peace on Earth for the Conservation of Life · In Honour of John Lennon 1940–1980". In December 2013, the International Astronomical Union named one of the craters on Mercury after Lennon.

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In the words of biographer Barry Miles, "Lennon simply shredded his vocal cords in the interests of rock 'n' roll." The Beatles' producer, George Martin, tells how Lennon "had an inborn dislike of his own voice which I could never understand. He was always saying to me: 'DO something with my voice!  ... put something on it ... Make it different.'" Martin obliged, often using double-tracking and other techniques.

As his Beatles era segued into his solo career, his singing voice found a widening range of expression. Biographer Chris Gregory writes of Lennon "tentatively beginning to expose his insecurities in a number of acoustic-led 'confessional' ballads, so beginning the process of 'public therapy' that will eventually culminate in the primal screams of 'Cold Turkey' and the cathartic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band." Music critic Robert Christgau calls this Lennon's "greatest vocal performance ... from scream to whine, is modulated electronically ... echoed, filtered, and double tracked." David Stuart Ryan notes Lennon's vocal delivery to range from "extreme vulnerability, sensitivity and even naivety" to a hard "rasping" style. Wiener too describes contrasts, saying the singer's voice can be "at first subdued; soon it almost cracks with despair". Music historian Ben Urish recalls hearing the Beatles' Ed Sullivan Show performance of "This Boy" played on the radio a few days after Lennon's murder: "As Lennon's vocals reached their peak ... it hurt too much to hear him scream with such anguish and emotion. But it was my emotions I heard in his voice. Just like I always had."

Legacy

Statue of Lennon outside The Cavern Club, Liverpool

Music historians Schinder and Schwartz wrote of the transformation in popular music styles that took place between the 1950s and the 1960s. They said that the Beatles' influence cannot be overstated: having "revolutionised the sound, style, and attitude of popular music and opened rock and roll's doors to a tidal wave of British rock acts", the group then "spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers". Liam Gallagher and his group Oasis were among the many who acknowledged the band's influence; he identified Lennon as a hero. In 1999, he named his first son Lennon Gallagher in tribute. On National Poetry Day in 1999, the BBC conducted a poll to identify the UK's favourite song lyric and announced "Imagine" as the winner.

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 Impressed, the driver told Lennon of a harmonica he could have if he came to Edinburgh the following day, where one had been stored in the bus depot since a passenger had left it on a bus. The professional instrument quickly replaced Lennon's toy. He would continue to play the harmonica, often using the instrument during the Beatles' Hamburg years, and it became a signature sound in the group's early recordings. His mother taught him how to play the banjo, later buying him an acoustic guitar. At 16, he played rhythm guitar with the Quarrymen.

As his career progressed, he played a variety of electric guitars, predominantly the Rickenbacker 325, Epiphone Casino and Gibson J-160E, and, from the start of his solo career, the Gibson Les Paul Junior. Double Fantasy producer Jack Douglas claimed that since his Beatle days Lennon habitually tuned his D-string slightly flat, so his Aunt Mimi could tell which guitar was his on recordings. Occasionally he played a six-string bass guitar, the Fender Bass VI, providing bass on some Beatles numbers ("Back in the U.S.S.R.", "The Long and Winding Road", "Helter Skelter") that occupied McCartney with another instrument. His other instrument of choice was the piano, on which he composed many songs, including "Imagine", described as his best-known solo work. His jamming on a piano with McCartney in 1963 led to the creation of the Beatles' first US number one, "I Want to Hold Your Hand". In 1964, he became one of the first British musicians to acquire a Mellotron keyboard, though it was not heard on a Beatles recording until "Strawberry Fields Forever" in 1967.

Vocal style

When the Beatles recorded "Twist and Shout", the final track during the mammoth one-day session that produced the band's 1963 debut album, Please Please Me, Lennon's voice, already compromised by a cold, came close to giving out. Lennon said, "I couldn't sing the damn thing, I was just screaming."

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Harry writes that In His Own Write (1964) was published after "Some journalist who was hanging around the Beatles came to me and I ended up showing him the stuff. They said, 'Write a book' and that's how the first one came about". Like the Daily Howl it contained a mix of formats including short stories, poetry, plays and drawings. One story, "Good Dog Nigel", tells the tale of "a happy dog, urinating on a lamp post, barking, wagging his tail – until he suddenly hears a message that he will be killed at three o'clock". The Times Literary Supplement considered the poems and stories "remarkable ... also very funny ... the nonsense runs on, words and images prompting one another in a chain of pure fantasy". Book Week reported, "This is nonsense writing, but one has only to review the literature of nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but a double edge." Lennon was not only surprised by the positive reception, but that the book was reviewed at all, and suggested that readers "took the book more seriously than I did myself. It just began as a laugh for me".

In combination with A Spaniard in the Works (1965), In His Own Write formed the basis of the stage play The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write, co-adapted by Victor Spinetti and Adrienne Kennedy. After negotiations between Lennon, Spinetti and the artistic director of the National Theatre, Sir Laurence Olivier, the play opened at The Old Vic in 1968. Lennon and Ono attended the opening night performance, their second public appearance together. In 1969, Lennon wrote "Four in Hand", a skit based on his teenage experiences of group masturbation, for Kenneth Tynan's play Oh! Calcutta! After Lennon's death, further works were published, including Skywriting by Word of Mouth (1986), Ai: Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes: A Personal Sketchbook (1992), with Lennon's illustrations of the definitions of Japanese words, and Real Love: The Drawings for Sean (1999). The Beatles Anthology (2000) also presented examples of his writings and drawings.

Musicianship

Instruments played

Lennon's Les Paul Jr., rear

Lennon played a mouth organ during a bus journey to visit his cousin in Scotland; the music caught the driver's ear.

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Wiener published the results of his 14-year campaign in January 2000. Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files contained facsimiles of the documents, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges". The story is told in the documentary The US vs. John Lennon. The final 10 documents in Lennon's FBI file, which reported on his ties with London anti-war activists in 1971 and had been withheld as containing "national security information provided by a foreign government under an explicit promise of confidentiality", were released in December 2006. They contained no indication that the British government had regarded Lennon as a serious threat; one example of the released material was a report that two prominent British leftists had hoped Lennon would finance a left-wing bookshop and reading room.

Writing and art

Beatles biographer Bill Harry wrote that Lennon began drawing and writing creatively at an early age with the encouragement of his uncle. He collected his stories, poetry, cartoons and caricatures in a Quarry Bank High School exercise book that he called the Daily Howl. The drawings were often of crippled people, and the writings satirical, and throughout the book was an abundance of wordplay. According to classmate Bill Turner, Lennon created the Daily Howl to amuse his best friend and later Quarrymen bandmate Pete Shotton, to whom he would show his work before he let anyone else see it. Turner said that Lennon "had an obsession for Wigan Pier. It kept cropping up", and in Lennon's story A Carrot in a Potato Mine, "the mine was at the end of Wigan Pier." Turner described how one of Lennon's cartoons depicted a bus stop sign annotated with the question, "Why?" Above was a flying pancake, and below, "a blind man wearing glasses leading along a blind dog – also wearing glasses".

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Soon after the press conference, Nixon's involvement in a political scandal came to light, and in June the Watergate hearings began in Washington, DC. They led to the president's resignation 14 months later. In December 1974, when he and members of his tour entourage visited the White House, Harrison asked Gerald Ford, Nixon's successor, to intercede in the matter. Ford's administration showed little interest in continuing the battle against Lennon, and the deportation order was overturned in 1975. The following year, Lennon received his "green card" certifying his permanent residency, and when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as president in January 1977, Lennon and Ono attended the Inaugural Ball.

FBI surveillance and declassified documents

Confidential (here declassified and censored) letter by J. Edgar Hoover about FBI surveillance of John Lennon

After Lennon's death, historian Jon Wiener filed a Freedom of Information Act request for FBI files that documented the Bureau's role in the deportation attempt. The FBI said it had 281 pages of files on Lennon, but refused to release most of them on the grounds that they contained national security information. In 1983, Wiener sued the FBI with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. It took 14 years of litigation to force the FBI to release the withheld pages. The ACLU, representing Wiener, won a favourable decision in their suit against the FBI in the Ninth Circuit in 1991. The Justice Department appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in April 1992, but the court declined to review the case. In 1997, respecting President Bill Clinton's newly instigated rule that documents should be withheld only if releasing them would involve "foreseeable harm", the Justice Department settled most of the outstanding issues outside court by releasing all but 10 of the contested documents.

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Nixon believed that Lennon's anti-war activities could cost him his reelection; Republican Senator Strom Thurmond suggested in a February 1972 memo that "deportation would be a strategic counter-measure" against Lennon. The next month the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) began deportation proceedings, arguing that his 1968 misdemeanour conviction for cannabis possession in London had made him ineligible for admission to the United States. Lennon spent the next three-and-a-half years in and out of deportation hearings until 8 October 1975, when a court of appeals barred the deportation attempt, stating "the courts will not condone selective deportation based upon secret political grounds". While the legal battle continued, Lennon attended rallies and made television appearances. He and Ono co-hosted The Mike Douglas Show for a week in February 1972, introducing guests such as Jerry Rubin and Bobby Seale to mid-America. In 1972, Bob Dylan wrote a letter to the INS defending Lennon, stating:

John and Yoko add a great voice and drive to the country's so-called art institution. They inspire and transcend and stimulate and by doing so, only help others to see pure light and in doing that, put an end to this dull taste of petty commercialism which is being passed off as Artist Art by the overpowering mass media. Hurray for John and Yoko. Let them stay and live here and breathe. The country's got plenty of room and space. Let John and Yoko stay!

On 23 March 1973, Lennon was ordered to leave the US within 60 days. Ono, meanwhile, was granted permanent residence. In response, Lennon and Ono held a press conference on 1 April 1973 at the New York City Bar Association, where they announced the formation of the state of Nutopia; a place with "no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people". Waving the white flag of Nutopia (two handkerchiefs), they asked for political asylum in the US. The press conference was filmed, and appeared in a 2006 documentary, The US vs. John Lennon.

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