John Lennon was born on October 9th, 1940 at 6:30am in the middle of a German air strike to Alfred, a ship dishwasher, and Julia, a movie usherette turned housewife. He and his parents live on Newcastle Road in the suburban district Penny Lane with his Grandfather until his parents divorced and he was given to his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. John went to The Liverpool Art School, where he met Cynthia Powell and formed his first band, The Quarrymen. After a performance at a church gathering, he met Paul McCartney, who soon was invited to join the band because of his able to tune guitars, which until then none of The Quarrymen could. Soon Paul convinced John that

The Beatles also had a major impact on other bands, even before they were known worldwide. “The Hollies came to see us once and came back two weeks later looking like us. We were in black turtleneck sweaters and John had his harmonica and we were doing R&B. The next week the Hollies had turtleneck sweaters and a harmonica in their act.” The success of The Beatles led way for many other British bands, many who were almost identical to The Beatles: the same hair cuts, same set ups, and similar music. Some of these bands were the Searchers, the Kinks, the Who, Freddie and the Dreamers, Herman’s Hermits, and the Rolling Stones. American bands were also getting into the act. According to Ringo Starr, “The Beatles were the influence on other bands in the sixties…We heard that producers were telling everyone to sound like The Beatles.” ABC-TV Prime came out with the television show, The Monkees, and marketed them as the ‘American version of The Beatles’. The show featured music similar to The Beatles and used the same techniques as Help! and A Hard Day’s Night, two of The Beatle’s music movies. The Beatles are still influencing many bands and musicians. Yesterday is the most covered song of all time, covered more than one thousand times and bands still try to have as many number one singles. There are also many tribute bands around for The Beatles, including the Chicago-based American English, who have even recorded in Abbey Road studios, the same recording studio that The Beatles did all their recordings.

John Lennon contributed in the music evolution of the late sixties. During this time, more sophisticated studio techniques came about. Music also began to experiment with instruments. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” used a forty-two-piece orchestra and a note only a dog could hear. The Beatles also used harmonicas, different guitar styles, including, electric and acoustic, and George began to play the sitar, an Indian guitar. In addition, recording methods became much more advanced.

Arthur O’Connor, the lieutenant in the twentieth precinct of the New York police that dealt with Lennon’s assassination, thinks that Lennon’s death is a conspiracy. He believes that if Chapman wanted to get away with it he could have, no one would have noticed if he left and there was a subway entry right across the street. Instead, when Chapman was done he waited for the police. He goes on to say that if the government had used a professional gunman than there would have been an investigation, because of Lennon’s anti-government activities. However, by using an amateur and the ‘lone nut’ theory, few questions are asked. In addition, Chapman bought a ticket to New York and a ticket to Chicago, with departures on the same day. This points to the fact that someone else was behind Lennon’s assassination, especially because Chapman had little money, working at a minimum wage job in Hawaii.

In the early sixties, rock and roll music was on a decline; it in fact began to ‘flatten out’. On the Billboard charts, rock and roll was no longer the mainstream of music. It was shared with country, rhythm and blues, folk music and crooners such as Frank Sinatra. Some began to call rock and roll passé. In February 1962, the New York rock and roll radio station, WINS, played sixty-six straight hours of Frank Sinatra, as a death notice to rock and roll. “After the Kennedy assassination in November 1963, Americans were longing for something that would make them feel alive again. That something would be The Beatles.”

In conclusion, John Lennon had an impact on American culture. He, with or without The Beatles, influenced music and how it is made, even today. The Lennon/McCartney partnership is still considered the standard of music making. Lennon and McCartney’s songs were able to take people to other places, cure a sick society, and give hope to everyone, they, along wi

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