John Lennon (1940.10.9—1980.12.8), the owner of the Best Medal (MBE) of the British Empire, is a rock musician, singer, composer, artist and so on. As one of the founders of The Beatles, he is world-famous. The combination of Lennon and Paul McCartney is one of the most successful and influential songwriting groups. Together, they created the most famous rock songs in history. Lennon showed his unrestrained personality and extraordinary wisdom in TV, movies (such as A Hard Day's Night) and works (such as his own works). As a pacifist, some of his actions as an artist are controversial.
After the Beatles period, Lennon became an excellent solo singer, during which he released famous songs such as Give Peace a Chance and Imagine. After a short retirement from 1976 to 1980, Lennon came back with a new album. However, a month later, he was shot dead in new york on February 8, 1980.
Lennon has two sons: Julian Lennon (by his first wife Cynthia) and Sean Xiao Ye Lennon (by his second wife, Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono Lennon).
In 2002, according to a BBC poll, John Lennon ranked eighth among the 65,438,000 greatest Britons of all time. In 2004, John Lennon ranked 38th in Rolling Stone Music Magazine's review "Immortal Man: 50 greatest music artists of all time", while The Beatles founded by him and paul mccartney ranked first. ..
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On February 8, John was shot dead in front of his apartment. The murderer mark david chapman always fired six shots. Later, the fan was arrested by the police and sentenced to live in a mental hospital for life. 65438+February 14 at 2 pm, Lennon's global fans collectively mourned for him 10 minutes, and his unexpected death also caused the sales of records such as Double Fantasy to soar around the world.
In the years after Lennon's death, his influence and reputation grew day by day. Until the mid-1980s, some of Lennon's unreleased tracks were listed one after another, and the video of a charity performance he participated in at 1972 was also collected by many fans. In addition, in order to commemorate Lennon, several founding members of the Beatles re-recorded several old songs popular in the 1970s at 1995, and these songs later appeared on the charts of 1996 as new songs.
In 2000, "Lennon fever" made a comeback. A large number of books about this cultural icon have been published, among which Geoffrey Giuliano's Lennon in America, robert rosen's Nowhere: John Lennon's Last Days and Lennon's Members: Full Interview with Rolling Stones since 1970 are famous. It can be said that Lennon and his Beatles influenced a whole generation and will continue to do so. Even Liverpool Airport in England is named after John Lennon, and the slogan is "There is only the sky above us" in John Lennon's famous song Imagine.
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