John Winston Lennon entered the music scene with a bang on October 9th, 1940, a night when Liverpool suffered a horrific Nazi air raid. He went on to become one of the best songwriters and musicians of all time.
John had an extremely unusual childhood for that time. His father, Alfred Lennon, a sailor, saw very little of his son until 1946. That year he took John on holiday and then unknown to his mother tried to smuggle him to New Zealand. Luckily, his mother Julia rescued John. John’s relationship with his mum was more of a friend than mother. He was almost entirely raised by his aunt and uncle, Mary and George. George and John were very close during his childhood, until one day George died unexpectedly. He spent more and more time with his
John continued with a solo career influenced by his second wife Yoko Ono. He had previously been married to Cynthia Powell and had one son Julian. John met Yoko Ono in the Inica Gallery. They were married on March 20, 1969. They had one son, Sean Lennon, who was born on John's thirty-fifth birthday. The family traveled extensively through out the world.
The band kept playing for the next thirteen years. Some of the famous songs sung and written by Lennon and Paul are, Imagine, Hard Days Night, Yellow Submarine, Help and Penny Lane. They had written more than ninety songs together and sold more than two hundred million copies, worth almost fifty-six million U.S dollars. The Beatles set a world record in 1967 when they received a US gold Disc fo
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