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Nowhere Boy

2009, Drama/Biography, 1h 37m

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Don't expect any musical insights, but this look at John Lennon's early life benefits from its restrained, low-key approach and some fine acting from Aaron Johnson. Read critic reviews

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A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) lives with his Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) in working-class Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young Lennon is inspired to form his own band.

Rating: R (Language|A Scene of Sexuality)

Genre: Drama, Biography

Original Language: English

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Producer: Robert Bernstein , Kevin Loader , Douglas Rae

Writer: Matt Greenhalgh

Release Date (Theaters): Oct 8, 2010 limited

Release Date (Streaming): Mar 9, 2014

Box Office (Gross USA): $1.4M

Runtime: 1h 37m

Distributor: Weinstein Co.

Cast & Crew

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

John Lennon

Kristin Scott Thomas

Anne-Marie Duff

Julia Lennon

David Threlfall

George Smith

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Paul McCartney

David Morrissey

Bobby Dykins

George Harrison

Ophelia Lovibond

Marie Kennedy

Jack McElhone

Eric Griffiths

Pete Shotton

James Johnson

Alex Ambrose

Angelica Jopling

Julia (Aged 8)

Abby Greenhalgh

Jackie(Aged 6)

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Matt Greenhalgh

Screenwriter

Robert Bernstein

Kevin Loader

Douglas Rae

Jon Diamond

Executive Producer

Christopher Moll

Mark Woolley

Will Gregory

Original Music

Alison Goldfrapp

Seamus McGarvey

Cinematographer

Lisa Gunning

Film Editing

Alice Normington

Production Design

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Five Favorite Films with Aaron Johnson

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Critic Reviews for Nowhere Boy

Audience reviews for nowhere boy.

I find this picture compellingly beautiful not only because it tells the coming-of-age story of the musician I truly adore but because it really is. Neat screenplay and direction. Great acting from the cast. Aaron Johnson's portrayal of Lennon was brilliant. I also loved the cinematography. Nowhere Boy is a poignant and powerful film.

"He's a real nowhere boy, sitting in his nowhere land...oy, making all his nowhere... plansoy for nobody." Okay, maybe this film's title doesn't work especially well in rhyme schemes, but it sure is clever, though I was hoping that they would call this film something like "The Beatgenning", but only because I wanted a chance to say, "Well, at least it's not as cheesy as the Beatles' early songs" and wait to see how people reacted. Hey, the title would fit for Aaron Johnson, seeing as how this film was the beginning of his breaking out, as well as the end to the segment of his career that was built around him being in the most British films imaginable, and a booming one at that, because it doesn't get too much more British than playing John Lennon, nor does it get too much more American than Johnson's next project, which was so Americantastically vulgar ("All you need is love" my foot, Brits) that I can't even say its title for the sake of the innocent readers who ironically have no problem looking into a film that says things that are a whole lot worse than the word in said title. I've always found people censoring themselves when reminding people of something vulgar to be hilariously ironic, but the point is that before Johnson was kicking, he was beating, though either way he was a "working class hero". Man, Johnson is so well-cast for this that he ended up with the director, who played Yoko Ono in that one famous portrait that was so lazily titled that it just went with the date: "26 October 1939"-I mean, "1993". Hey, Johnson certainly has Lennon's unconventional taste for the ladies (Oh yes, because it's so uncommon for men to be intensely attracted towards Asians for some strange reason), but hey, Johnson's much older bride proves that something good came from this production outside of evidence of Kristin Scott Thomas' still being alive and, of course, a decent film. However, the film itself isn't quite as good as it could have been, being a reasonably worthy user of your time, but one that has its share of shortcomings. As I jokingly stated earlier, this film is so British that it's about a young John Lennon, and as a super British film, this effort wouldn't be complete without dry spells, of which there are admittedly not nearly as many as I feared, which isn't to say that they aren't still here, for although the film is generally entertaining, there are bland moments - maybe even the occasional dull moment - to supplement slow-downs that don't necessarily need to be backed by a bland atmosphere to stand. At just shy of 100 minutes, this film doesn't have a whole lot of time to drag its feet, yet it still manages to make that time, incorporating so much aimless filler that, before too long, it begins to drive the narrative, thinning it out, eventually into all-out repetition. After a while, you begin to get a sense of direction and focus within this film's storytelling, but the journey to that point is much longer than it should be, and even when you get there, things get a bit fatty around the edges, thus making for a film that has too much fat around the edges, yet still retains a relatively short length that it often tightens up to in a way that is about as questionable as the bloating. Hey, we're just talking about John Lennon growing up and starting the band that we've all come to know and love, so it's not like there's a whole lot that is juicy about this story concept, but when you get deeper into this tale, there is some depth and potential for intrigue that are sadly kind of underexplored, being occasionally played up to give a glimpse at what could have been, but all too often disregarded for the sake of the filler and desperate struggle to retain an endearing charm whose reinforcement doesn't really do anything but draw your attention towards the thinness of this plot. Like I said, there is some meat on this story's bones, - underexplored though it may be - but only so much, because while it is rather compelling seeing John Lennon come of age as he rekindles, mends and even discovers relationships that will change him into the man we've come to know and respect him as, this minimalist drama doesn't have much else going for it, and that makes what storytelling flaws there are all the more glaring. What is done right is done so well that the film almost rewards, but ultimately falls short of its full potential, held back by natural shortcomings that are too overemphasized by pacing, focus and expository problems for underwhelmingness to go the way of Jojo and "get back". Of course, it's not like the film goes the way of John Lennon and gets sho-I mean, goes nowhere, meandering along too much to make it rewarding, but coming close on the shoulders of certain rewarding aspects, as well as visually appealing ones. Seamus McGarvey is an exceptional cinematographer, yet one who has a tendency to step back with his creative mind and leave things to look simply average, and sure enough, this film is no stunner, but when McGarvey really plays up his sharp taste for crisp definition, lush coloring and striking lighting, the film looks gorgeous, with a lively glow that embodies the effort's tone, while polishing up the look of the production value that embodies this film's era in a way that's too subtle to be at all upstanding, but remains convincing. Just as complimentary to the capturing of this late 1950s, early rock 'n' roll era is, of course, the soundtrack, which isn't played up too much, and never turns in especially strong or delightfully new tunes (Jeez, I'm sorry to cramp your style, wild children, but how many more coming-of-age films set between the late '50s and early '60s are we going to get with Jerry Lee Lewis' version of "Wild One"?), but still features plenty of entertaining classics that breathe some additional life into both entertainment value and the capturing of a sense of the spirit of the time. As a heartfelt tribute to the rock 'n' roll world of a spirited young man's interpretation of the late 1950s, the film is nothing short of a considerable success, whose cleverly subtle touches go a long way in transporting to this time with an immersive inspiration that I wish I could say is applied to more than just setting establishment, yet can be found in glimpses within the telling of a story that deserves to be well-told. There's only so much meat to play up within this story of John Lennon's coming of age, but there's certainly a lot of heart, from which heights in dramatic punch can indeed be found, so while this story concept isn't so strong that it would be difficult to shake thorough compellingness, there is plenty of potential, quite a bit of which is pretty well-explored by Matt Greenhalgh, whose script carries a charming wit that director and then-future Mrs. Aaron Johnson (No, as in his wife, not his mom), Sam Taylor-Wood, captures with a generally lively atmosphere whose more potent spots are bound to move. As a drama, when the film picks up as a heartfelt study upon the layered prelude to Lennon's maturity as both a musical legend and person, it's very compelling, and while those moments are limited in their quantity, they cannot be taken away from the final product, whose liveliness is enough to keep up firm decency, at when anchored by the performances. With the occasional dramatic heights come extensive acting material, so, on the whole, there's not much that's outstanding about the acting, but most every one delivers to one degree or another, with Anne-Marie Duff, or as I prefer to call her, - because of the catchiness - Anne-Marie McAvoy (Man, there are quite a few cougars involved in this film), capturing the spirited, yet somewhat layered depths of an overly lenient and secretly guilty mother reunited with her long-lost son, as surely as Kristin Scott Thomas convinces as John Lennon's stern and disapproving, but understandably concerned aunt guardian, while leading man Aaron Johnson carries the final product, transforming into Lennon with charm, subtle dramatic range and layers that capture sometimes profound human depths through all of the rebellion and ambition that defines Lennon's youth. If there are compelling moments in this film, then Johnson is typically their driving force, having revelatory moments that aren't abundant enough to make a great performance, but certainly go into making a worthy lead for this film, which could have hit harder, - as reflected by the heights' hitting pretty hard - but has enough endearing heart, entertainment value and range to keep you going. When the trail to nowhere has been passed, the final product's full potential goes left behind, while bland spots, repetitiously bloated storytelling with limited focus, and dramatic underexploration that emphasizes natural shortcomings ignite an underwhelmingness that is still challenged enough by a look that is both handsome - thanks in part to Seamus McGarvey's cinematography - and joins a colorful soundtrack in capturing the setting, while the heart of an interesting story concept is brought to life enough by clever writing, liveliness within a directorial performance that tosses in the occasional emotionally resonant moment, and strong acting - particularly by leading man Aaron Johnson - to make "Nowhere Boy" a charming and sometimes moving study on the late, great John Lennon's deeply layered coming of age. 2.75/5 - Decent

Young John Lennon is torn between his mercurial biological mother and his stuffy aunt. The only thing I learned from this film is that John Lennon was once a real prick. The movie goes to great lengths to convince us that his upbringing produced his frustration, but Lennon's reactions to his troubled circumstances seem over-the-top, and we're not given many reasons to find him interesting. The plot languishes in exposition, and the final reveals about Julia's history don't surprise any discerning audience. Kristin Scott Thomas can do anything, and she gives a fantastic performance, but Aaron Johnson plays youthful angst with all the brattiness of a misbehaving kid at Wal Mart. I suppose that a more traditional biopic, with an older Lennon reminiscing on the travails of his life, might have been more compelling, and perhaps Beatles fans fill in this "front-story," but I judge a film based more on what is on the screen rather than context. Overall, there is nothing new about this story for most people, but perhaps a cadre of Beatles fans will find Lennon's history interesting.

Good performance by Aaron Johnson - capturing the Lennon spirit without really looking like him at all - and, (of course), a great one from Kristin Scott Thomas, but otherwise, the film's rather dull. It's almost too thorough, and it comes out more precious and hero-worshipping than it does hard-hitting. Lennon's boyhood doesn't seem so tough, frankly, and unlike a lot of great musician biopics, we don't see the life channel into the music; we come to understand more about the man, but not much more about his art. The result? A fairly boring letdown.

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By Manohla Dargis

Oct. 7, 2010

At its most obvious, the title of “Nowhere Boy,” a prettily photographed melodrama about a tumultuous period in John Lennon’s adolescence, is a reference to his song “Nowhere Man.” Included in the Beatles’ 1965 album “Rubber Soul,” the masterwork that pointed to new horizons (“This was the departure record,” Ringo Starr said), it has lyrics worthy of Samuel Beckett (“He’s a real nowhere man/Sitting in his nowhere land”) and a strong melancholic undertow. The song is often seen as autobiographical and, somewhat repellently, its title has been used to describe both Lennon and his killer, Mark David Chapman.

Lennon would have been 70 on Saturday, which partly explains the release of “Nowhere Boy,” if not its existence. Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, the film opens with a 15-year-old John (the older-looking, appealing Aaron Johnson) gleefully running down an empty passageway before falling out of the frame and waking up in his bed at home in Liverpool . This visual would feel overly obvious if Ms. Taylor-Wood lingered too long on it. But she moves through her metaphors and material efficiently, and quickly sketches John’s home life, with its joys and challenges. One look at his Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas, just right), with her brisk dismissals and pursed lips, and you know this boy aches for a bosom to lie on.

That bosom soon comes heaving into the picture, attached to the ripe, evocatively quivering figure of John’s mother, Julia (a very good Anne-Marie Duff). For much of his life, John has been raised by his Aunt Mimi and dearly loved Uncle George (David Threlfall), a man given to big smiles and silly noises. But after a traumatic death in the family, John seeks out Julia, initiating an emotionally volatile, erotically charged relationship that disturbs, provokes, repels and inspires him. “Do you know what rock ’n’ roll is?” Julia asks him on one of their outings. What, her son asks, wide-eyed. “Sex,” Julia smiles, her hips bumping and swaying to “Rocket 88” (“Gals will ride in style/Movin’ all along”).

The film’s best and boldest move is how it brings maternal love and sexual desire into play with artistic longing and youthful ambition. As Mimi unsmilingly goes about running the house that John takes for granted, Julia shares her love of music with John, a love that takes on a pointed, complex erotic charge in a sequence that begins with mother and son listening to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins yowling “I Put a Spell on You.” The film cuts to a close-up of one of John’s hands, his fingers moving rhythmically, and then to an earlier scene of him having sex with a schoolmate, an explicitly pleasurable interlude that Ms. Taylor-Wood punctuates with a shock cut of him later being caned at school for an infraction.

It’s a nicely pieced together, suggestive sequence, but suggestive of what? That John associated sex with punishment? That maturing British schoolboys really have it rough and will grow up to like the lash?

The blurry screenplay by Matt Greenhalgh, which is based on a memoir by one of Lennon’s half sisters, Julia Baird (her character is Julia’s oldest girl), doesn’t say, which would be fine if it said something else of interest. It’s a treat to watch John watch Elvis gyrate in a newsreel and form the Quarrymen and talk mean to a scrawny kid with undeniable guitar skills named Paul (Thomas Brodie Sangster). It’s a pleasant-enough creation story to revisit, one weighted down by melodrama and lifted up by some rocking tunes.

“Nowhere Boy” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Sex, ale and rock ’n’ roll.

NOWHERE BOY

Opens on Friday in Manhattan.

Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood; written by Matt Greenhalgh, based on the memoir “Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon” by Julia Baird; director of photography, Seamus McGarvey; edited by Lisa Gunning; costumes by Julian Day; produced by Douglas Rae, Robert Bernstein and Kevin Loader; released by the Weinstein Company. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes.

WITH: Aaron Johnson (John), Anne-Marie Duff (Julia), Kristin Scott Thomas (Mimi), David Morrissey (Bobby), David Threlfall (Uncle George), Thomas Brodie Sangster (Paul), Josh Bolt (Pete), Sam Bell (George) and Ophelia Lovibond (Marie).

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John Lennon

Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other.

(1940-1980)

Who Was John Lennon?

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during a German air raid in World War II.

When he was four years old, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. Lennon's father was a merchant seaman. He was not present at his son's birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was young.

Lennon's mother, Julia, remarried but visited him and Mimi regularly. She taught Lennon how to play the banjo and the piano and purchased his first guitar. Lennon was devastated when Julia was fatally struck by a car driven by an off-duty police officer in July 1958. Her death was one of the most traumatic events in his life.

As a child, Lennon was a prankster and he enjoyed getting into trouble. As a boy and young adult, he enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. Lennon's school master thought that he could go to an art school for college since he did not get good grades in school but had artistic talent.

Forming the Beatles

Elvis Presley 's explosion onto the rock music scene inspired a 16-year-old Lennon to create the skiffle band called the Quarry Men, named after his school. Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church fete on July 6, 1957. He soon invited McCartney to join the group, and the two eventually formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in musical history.

McCartney introduced George Harrison to Lennon the following year, and Harrison and art college buddy Stuart Sutcliffe also joined Lennon's band. Always in need of a drummer, the group finally settled on Pete Best in 1960.

The first recording they made was Buddy Holly 's "That'll Be the Day" in 1958. In fact, it was Holly's group, the Crickets, that inspired the band to change its name. Lennon would later joke that he had a vision when he was 12 years old — a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, "From this day on, you are Beatles with an 'A.'"

The Beatles were discovered by Brian Epstein in 1961 at Liverpool's Cavern Club, where they were performing on a regular basis. As their new manager, Epstein secured a record contract with EMI. With a new drummer, Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), and George Martin as a producer, the group released their first single, "Love Me Do," in October 1962. It peaked on the British charts at No. 17.

Lennon wrote the group's follow-up single, "Please Please Me," inspired primarily by Roy Orbison , but also fed by Lennon's infatuation with the pun in Bing Crosby 's famous lyrics, "Oh, please, lend your little ears to my pleas," from the song "Please." The Beatles' "Please Please Me" topped the charts in Britain. The Beatles went on to become the most popular band in Britain with the release of such mega-hits as "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand."

Lennon married Cynthia Powell in August 1962. The couple had one son together, Julian, who was named after Lennon's mother. Cynthia was forced to keep a very low profile during Beatlemania. She and Lennon divorced in 1968. He remarried the following year, on March 20, 1969, to Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono, whom he had met at the Indica Gallery in November 1966.

Beatlemania

In 1964, the Beatles became the first British band to break out big in the United States, beginning with their appearance on television's The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. Beatlemania launched a "British Invasion" of rock bands in the United States that also included the Rolling Stones and the Kinks. Following their appearance on Sullivan , the Beatles returned to Britain to film their first film, A Hard Day's Night (1964), and prepare for their first world tour.

The Beatles' second film, Help! , was released in 1965. That June, Queen Elizabeth II announced that the Beatles would be named a Member of the Order of the British Empire. In August 1965, the foursome performed to 55,600 fans at New York's Shea Stadium, setting a new record for largest concert audience in musical history. When the Beatles returned to England, they recorded the breakthrough album Rubber Soul (1965), noted for extending beyond the love songs and pop formulas for which the band was previously well-known.

The magic of Beatlemania had begun to lose its appeal by 1966. The band members' lives were put in danger when they were accused of snubbing the presidential family in the Philippines. Then, Lennon's remark that the band was "more popular than Jesus now" incited denunciations and Beatles record bonfires in the U.S. Bible belt. The Beatles gave up touring after an August 29, 1966, concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

After an extended break, the band returned to the studio to expand their experimental sound with drug-influenced exotic instrumentation/lyrics and tape abstractions. The first sample was the single "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever," followed by the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), considered by many to be the greatest rock project in musical history.

The Beatles Break Up

The Beatles then suffered a huge blow when Epstein died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills on August 27, 1967. Shaken by Epstein's death, the Beatles retrenched under McCartney's leadership in the fall and filmed Magical Mystery Tour . While the film was panned by critics, the soundtrack album contained Lennon's "I Am The Walrus," the group's most cryptic work yet.

Magical Mystery Tour failed to achieve much commercial success, and the Beatles retreated into Transcendental Meditation and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, which took them to India for two months in early 1968. Their next effort, Apple Corps Ltd., was plagued by mismanagement. That July, the group faced its last notably hysterical crowd at the premiere of their film Yellow Submarine . In November 1968, the Beatles' double-album The Beatles (also known as The White Album ) displayed their divergent directions.

By this time, Lennon's artist partnership with second wife Ono had begun to cause serious tensions within the group. Lennon and Ono invented a form of peace protest by staying in bed while being filmed and interviewed, and their single "Give Peace a Chance" (1969), recorded under the name "the Plastic Ono Band," became a national anthem of sorts for pacifists.

Lennon left the Beatles in September 1969, just after the group completed recording Abbey Road. The news of the break-up was kept secret until McCartney announced his departure in April 1970, a month before the band released Let It Be , recorded just before Abbey Road.

Solo Career: 'Imagine' Album

Not long after the Beatles broke up, in 1970, Lennon released his debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band , featuring a raw, minimalist sound that followed "primal-scream" therapy. He followed that project with 1971's Imagine , the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed of all Lennon's post-Beatles efforts. The title track was later named No. 3 on Rolling Stone magazine's "All-Time Best Songs" list.

Peace and love, however, was not always on Lennon's agenda. Imagine also included the track "How Do You Sleep?," a vehement response to veiled messages at Lennon in some of McCartney's solo recordings. The friends and former songwriting duo later buried the hatchet, but never formally worked together again.

Lennon and Ono moved to the United States in September 1971, but were constantly threatened with deportation by the Nixon Administration. Lennon was told that he was being kicked out of the country due to his 1968 marijuana conviction in Britain, but the singer believed that he was being removed because of his activism against the unpopular Vietnam War. Documents later proved him correct. (Two years after Nixon resigned, in 1976, Lennon was granted permanent U.S. residency.)

In 1972, while battling to stay in America, Lennon performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City to benefit mentally handicapped children and continued to promote peace. His immigration battle took a toll on Lennon's marriage, and in the fall of 1973, he and Ono separated. Lennon went to Los Angeles, California, where he partied and took a mistress, May Pang. He still managed to release hit albums, including Mind Games (1973), Walls and Bridges (1974) and Rock 'n' Roll (1975). During this time, Lennon famously collaborated with David Bowie and Elton John .

Lennon and Ono reconciled in 1974, and she gave birth to their only child, a son named Sean, on Lennon's 35th birthday (October 9, 1975). Shortly thereafter, Lennon decided to leave the music business to focus on being a father and husband.

Tragic Death

In 1980, Lennon returned to the music world with the album Double Fantasy , featuring the hit single "(Just Like) Starting Over." Tragically, just a few weeks after the album's release, Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan, shot Lennon several times in front of his apartment complex in New York City. Lennon died at New York City's Roosevelt Hospital on December 8, 1980, at the age of 40.

Lennon's assassination had, and continues to have, a profound impact on pop culture. Following the tragic event, millions of fans worldwide mourned as record sales soared. And Lennon's untimely death still evokes deep sadness around the globe today, as he continues to be admired by new generations of fans. Lennon was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

QUICK FACTS

Name: John Lennon
Birth Year: 1940
Birth date: October 9, 1940
Birth City: Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Birth Country: United Kingdom
Gender: Male
Best Known For: Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other.
Astrological Sign: Libra
Quarry Bank High School
Liverpool College of Art
Death Year: 1980
Death date: December 8, 1980
Death State: New York
Death City: New York
Death Country: United States

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All you need is love.
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Let it be. Whisper words of wisdom. Let it be.
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Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial,” premiering globally on December 6

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Today, Apple TV+ released the official trailer for the new three-part documentary series, “John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial,” narrated by Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland (“24,” “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”) and set to premiere globally on December 6. The docuseries features exclusive eyewitness interviews and previously unseen crime scene photos, shedding new light on the life and murder of music and cultural icon John Lennon, and the investigation and conviction of Mark David Chapman, his confessed killer.

“John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial” is a deeply researched examination of John Lennon’s 1980 murder, which shocked and saddened the world. The production was granted extensive Freedom of Information Act requests from the New York City Police Department, the Board of Parole and the District Attorney’s office; and the series includes exclusive interviews including Richard Peterson, a taxi driver who was witness to the shooting; Jay Hastings, a doorman at The Dakota building who heard Lennon’s last words; David Suggs, Chapman’s defense lawyer; Elliot Mintz, a confidant to Lennon and Yoko Ono; and Dr. Naomi Goldstein, the psychiatrist who first assessed Chapman.

The series is produced for Apple TV+ by the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning team at 72 Films, directed by Nick Holt (“The Murder Trial,” “Responsible Child”) and Rob Coldstream (“Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain”) with executive producers David Glover (9/11: One Day in America”), Mark Raphael (“Crime and Punishment”) and Coldstream, alongside producers Simon Bunney and Louis Lee Ray.

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1. Borrowed Time (I)

Documentary | Post-production

Director: Alan G. Parker | Stars: John Lennon , Tariq Ali , Tony Bramwell , Earl Slick

2. What the Hell Happened to High Times?

Documentary | Filming

Director: Steven Hager | Stars: John Lennon , Hunter S. Thompson , Abbie Hoffman , John Sinclair

3. The Beatles: Now and Then (2023 Music Video)

5 min | Music

The music video was almost 20 years in production, starting in 1994. Time capsule, the last song of The Beatles performed in 2023 but together with John Lennon from the late 1970s.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: The Beatles , John Lennon , George Harrison , Paul McCartney

4. The Weeknd: Jealous Guy (2023 Music Video)

2 min | Music

Music video for The Weeknd version of John Lennon's song Jealous Guy from the soundtrack of The Idol

Stars: Lily-Rose Depp , The Weeknd , Rachel Sennott , Moses Sumney

5. Ticket to Ride (2023 Music Video)

Director: Gary Revel | Star: Gary Revel

6. The Beatles: Taxman (2022 mix) (2022 Music Video)

3 min | Animation, Music

Official video for the song Taxman composed by George Harrison to promote the 2022 remix of the Beatles album 'Revolver'. Designed and directed by Danny Sangra.

Director: Danny Sangra

7. The Beatles: I'm Only Sleeping (2022 mix) (2022 Music Video)

3 min | Animation, Short, Music

Official music video promoting the 2022 remix of the Beatles album Revolver. Directed and animated by Em Cooper from 1,300 individual oil paintings handmade by the director.

Director: Em Cooper | Star: The Beatles

8. Artists of the Roundtable (2022 Video)

PG | 60 min | Documentary

Today's independent artists - filmmakers, comedians, and musicians gather to discuss this century's most meaningful people within tv, film, and music. Take a look back to remember the crazy... See full summary »

Director: Michael J. Foster | Stars: Grae Drake , Emery Emery , Michael J. Foster , John Fugelsang

9. The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere (2022 mix) (2022 Music Video)

2 min | Animation, Short, Music

Official video for the song 'Here, There and Everywhere' composed by Lennon-McCartney to promote the 2022 remix of the Beatles album 'Revolver'. Designed and directed by Rok Predin.

Director: Rok Predin | Star: The Beatles

10. Haritini: Yesterday (2022 Music Video)

3 min | Short, Music

Director: Spyros Maltezos | Star: Haritini Panopoulou

11. Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts Series (2020– ) The Young Virtuosos - FULL CONCERT - CLASSICAL GUITAR - Omni Foundation Live from St. Mark's, SF (2022 Podcast Episode)

Stars: Scott Cmiel , Elle Davisson , Jack Davisson , Emilia Diaz Delgado

12. Adrienne (2021)

98 min | Documentary, Biography

As the muse of Hal Hartley's indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitress, Adrienne Shelly was a shining star in the indie film firmament.

Director: Andy Ostroy | Stars: Sara Bareilles , Robert John Burke , Nathan Fillion , Andy Griffith

13. Drum Together (2021 Music Video)

10 min | Short, Music

More than 100 drummers and percussionists, along with over 50 additional musicians, have joined forces to create Drum Together - a never-before-heard, drum-focused version of The Beatles' "... See full summary »

Director: Dakota Lupo | Stars: Alex Acuna , Billy Amendola , Adele Anthony , Carmine Appice

14. Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts Series (2020– ) Maestros of 50 Oak Street - FULL CONCERT - CLASSICAL GUITAR - Live from St. Mark's (2021 Podcast Episode)

Stars: Sergio Assad , Richard Savino , David Tanenbaum , Marc Teicholz

15. Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts Series (2020 Podcast Series)

Stars: Emilia Diaz Delgado , Marko Topchii , Tengyue Zhang , Strauss Shi

16. Marion Aunor: All My Loving (2020 Music Video)

Short, Music

Star: Marion Aunor

17. All the Stupid People (2020 Music Video)

4 min | Short, Music

Director: Don Caron | Star: Don Caron

18. Jeff Beck & Johnny Depp: Isolation (2020 Music Video)

5 min | Short, Music

Stars: Jeff Beck , Vinnie Colaiuta , Johnny Depp , Rhonda Smith

19. Welcome the Magical Mystery Tour (2019)

81 min | Documentary

Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Groupe Houba , Raphaël Jimenez , Emmanuelle Schaaff , Benoît Delépine

20. The Beatles: Glass Onion (2018 Mix) (2018 Music Video)

2 min | Short, Music

Stars: The Beatles , George Harrison , John Lennon , Paul McCartney

21. Hey Dude (2018 Music Video)

22. the beatles: back in the u.s.s.r. (2018 mix) (2018 music video), 23. imagine (v) (2017).

Short, Drama

A priest delivers the words penned by John Lennon, as a sermon.

Director: Andy Gotts | Star: John Hurt

24. Artists for the Arts: With a Little Help from My Friends (2017 Music Video)

6 min | Short, Music

Director: Jason Milstein | Stars: Nick Adams , Julie Benko , Ashley Brown , Corey Brunish

25. Scrambled Eggs (2017 Video)

Directors: Blythe Daniel , David Daniel , David Rapka | Stars: Jake Daniel , Selena Caballero , David Daniel , Blythe Daniel

26. Pacôme Thiellement rencontre le public de la librairie Floury Frères de Toulouse autour de son livre 'La victoire des sans roi' (2017)

69 min | Documentary

Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Pacôme Thiellement , Gérard Trouilhet , Luc Weissmüller , Hervé Floury

27. The Beatles and World War II (2016)

Documentary, Music, War

An updated remake of the 1976 Beatles collage film All This and World War II by Tony Palmer (who previously researched the documentary before) featuring covers by popular artists of the ... See full summary »

Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: The Bee Gees , Neville Chamberlain , Winston Churchill , David Essex

28. Across the Universe (2016)

Two world changers try to change how the universe looks, but realize that nothing can change it.

Director: Stan McClintock | Stars: Reed Campbell , Stan McClintock

29. Walking on Thin Ice (2016 Music Video)

Yoko Ono walks around New York City in early 1981, just months after her partner John Lennon was murdered. Taken from the album Yoko Ono 'Yes, I'm A Witch Too'. Original version on the 1981 LP 'Seasons In Glass'.

Director: Yoko Ono | Star: Yoko Ono

30. Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2015)

Short, Fantasy, Music

Director: Amos Poe | Stars: Anna Rezan , Ann Rezanni

31. Cook & Banks (2015)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s. With help and hindrance from their producer, their manager, Cook's girlfriend, Banks' sister, and a rival band's lead singer - Cook and Banks try everything to stay on the same page and stay together.

Director: Jørgen Pedersen | Stars: Aaron Dodd , Andrew Rea , Beacon Bowman , Ken Haller

32. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2015 Music Video)

The music video is a montage of footage of their famous concert at Shea Stadium, New York City, New York, 15 August 1965.

Director: Matthew Longfellow | Stars: The Beatles , George Harrison , John Lennon , Paul McCartney

33. You Must Remember This (2014– ) Charles Manson's Hollywood, Part 12: The Manson Family on Trial (2015 Podcast Episode)

57 min | History

The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future filmmakers found themselves caught up in. Joan Didion bought a dress for a Manson girl ... See full summary »

Stars: Karina Longworth , John Lennon , John Waters , Moisés Tuñón

34. UNICEF: Imagine (2014 Music Video)

Director: Michael Jurkovac | Stars: Sigrid Agren , Dianna Agron , Francois Alexander , Coco Arquette

35. Free Speech & the Transcendent Journey of Chris Drew, Street Artist (2014)

Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Chris Drew, street artist and activist, was selling art for $1 in downtown Chicago to protest the Chicago Peddlers Ordinance since he believed Art is Speech, a First Amendment Right. Those ... See full summary »

Director: Nancy Bechtol | Stars: Chris Drew , Joshua Kutnick , Deborah Drew , Mark Weinberg

36. Train: Imagine (2013 Music Video)

Star: Pat Monahan

37. Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne & ELO (2012 TV Movie)

Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, Music

As the creative force behind Electric Light Orchestra and a singularly accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer, Jeff Lynne is one of rock's most iconic--yet mysterious--figures.

Director: Martyn Atkins | Stars: Jeff Lynne , Dhani Harrison , Olivia Harrison , Eric Idle

38. Godsmack: Come Together (2012 Music Video)

Director: Ian T. Barrett | Stars: Sully Erna , Godsmack , Shannon Larkin , Robbie Merrill

39. Udo Lindenberg feat. Jan Delay: Reeperbahn 2011 (What It's Like) (2012 Music Video)

Director: Sven Haeusler | Stars: Jan Delay , Udo Lindenberg

40. Scorpions: Across the Universe (2011 Music Video)

Scorpions perform in the music video "Across the Universe" from the album "Return to Forever" recorded for Sony Records. The music video features the band performing on a darkened stage. Klaus Meine sings while the band plays around him.

Stars: Scorpions , Matthias Jabs , James Kottak , Pawel Maciwoda

41. Ozzy Osbourne: How? (2010 Music Video)

Ozzy Osbourne performs in the music video "How?" from the single released in support of Amnesty International. Ozzy Osbourne wears sunglasses and sings as he stands and later walks down the... See full summary »

Director: Ernie Fritz | Star: Ozzy Osbourne

42. Easy Go (2010)

6 min | Short, Action, Comedy

A thin line between having much and having nothing.

Director: Vit Fic | Stars: Vit Fic , Ondrej Vana , Radka Davidova

43. Colombia 2012 (2010)

33 min | Short

Director: Orlando Arturo Avila | Stars: Hollman Morris , Astrid Uribe , Gustavo Moncayo , Juan Andrés Avila

44. Imagine Peace (2010)

40 min | Documentary, Short

Four years in the making, the film features interviews and footage never seen before, as well as older scenes of John and Yoko together, in private and performing in public. Yoko Ono talks ... See full summary »

Director: Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Star: Yoko Ono

45. American Masters (1985– ) Episode: LennoNYC (2010)

Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A look at the period of time musician John Lennon and his family spent living in New York City during the 1970s.

Director: Michael Epstein | Stars: John Lennon , Roy Cicala , Earl Slick , Andy Newmark

46. The Beatles: Rock Band (2009 Video Game)

T | Biography, Family, Music

A Rock Band (2007) spin-off that focuses on The Beatles .

Stars: John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison , Ringo Starr

47. Liverpool Nativity (2007 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Musical

Liverpool's great musical heritage is the soundtrack to a contemporary music drama set in a fictitious state, a tale as relevant today as it was 2,000 years ago. It tells the intimate ... See full summary »

Directors: Noreen Kershaw , Richard Valentine | Stars: Jodie McNee , Kenny Thompson , Geoffrey Hughes , Cathy Tyson

49. Kenny Everett: Licence to Laugh (2007 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

Directors: Clyde Holcroft , Christopher Salt | Stars: Kate Adie , Russell Brand , Adam Buxton , Billy Connolly

50. The Smithereens: I Want to Hold Your Hand (2007 Music Video)

Star: The Smithereens

John Lennon biography

John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool on 9 October 1940 . A founder member of The Beatles, and their singer, songwriter and guitarist, he was murdered in New York City on 8 December 1980.

The early years

Julia Lennon taught her son to play the banjo, and they shared a love of Elvis Presley’s music. The first song he learned to play was Fats Domino’s ‘Ain’t That A Shame’.

In 1957 she bought John his first guitar, a Gallotone Champion acoustic “guaranteed not to split”. Julia ensured it was delivered to her house rather than Mimi’s, as her sister was disapproving of music. She told her nephew, “The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never make a living out of it”.

Lennon’s first school was Mosspits Lane Infants School in Wavertree, Liverpool, which he attended from November 1945 to May 1946. He then changed to Dovedale Primary School, and upon passing his 11 Plus attended Quarry Bank Grammar School (1952-1957). He formed The Quarrymen in March 1957, and in July the same year met Paul McCartney at the garden fete at St Peter’s Church in Woolton, Liverpool.

The pair quickly bonded, and began rehearsing and writing songs together at McCartney’s home at 20 Forthlin Road. Lennon’s first completed song was ‘Hello Little Girl’ , later a hit for the Fourmost. McCartney also introduced Lennon to George Harrison , and convinced him to let the young guitarist join the group, eventually named The Beatles after a series of other names were rejected.

We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader – he was the quickest wit and the smartest and all that kind of thing.

Lennon failed all his GCE O level exams, but with the help of his head teacher was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art. There he met Cynthia Powell , who became his first wife. They married after she became pregnant with their son Julian, who was born on 8 April 1963 .

With The Beatles

An unruly pupil, Lennon dropped out of college before his final year. By this time, however, The Beatles were working hard to establish a name for themselves. Initially managed by Allan Williams from May 1960, they were booked later that year to play at the Indra club in Hamburg. The trip wasn’t a success: McCartney and drummer Pete Best were accused of arson after a fire started in the cinema where they were staying, and George Harrison was deported for working while under the age of 18. Lennon returned to Liverpool after his work permit was revoked.

John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe in Hamburg, 1960

The Beatles returned to Hamburg after Harrison turned 18, and from April 1961 began another residency. While there they recorded ‘My Bonnie’ with singer Tony Sheridan .

In 1962 they returned to Hamburg to play at the Star Club, and in May were signed to EMI subsidiary label Parlophone. Their first single, ‘Love Me Do’ , was released on 5 October.

By the following year The Beatles had become a worldwide phenomenon, under the auspices of manager Brian Epstein . Their success looked unstoppable, though in March 1966 Lennon was interviewed by journalist Maureen Cleave, who quoted him as saying:

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I do not know what will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. We’re more popular than Jesus now . Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary.

The quote led to protests in the southern and midwest US states, which included public bonfires of Beatles records and memorabilia. Lennon issued an apology of sorts at a Chicago press conference in August 1966, saying:

I was not saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still do not know quite what I’ve done. I’ve tried to tell you what I did do, but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I’m sorry.

By this time The Beatles had long tired of the demands of Beatlemania and the frenetic pace of touring. Lennon later wrote:

I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn’t said that The Beatles were ‘bigger than Jesus’ and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

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John was one of the best musicians of all time, possibly the best, certainly a genius.

The greatness of John Lennon as i see it:

–The increasing tension. For example I Should Have Known Better. Before Lennon, all pop music structure was AABA, where the tension decreased in the middle part B. But with Lennon the tension from the verse continued in the middle part. Besides that, in this song it is not only a key change in the transition to the middle part, it is even a little key change in it. The increasing tension was what first characterized The Beatles. The first single where the verse lacked this increasing tension was Can´t Buy Me Love. (But the chorus is OK). I didn´t know then it was a McCartney composition. – Other ways of increase the tension by Lennon is to pack together several little songs. Happiness Is A Warm Gun consists of three or four songs, and Bring On The Lucie consists of three songs. –All You Need Is Love has another way: First talking, then repeating half singing, then singing, and finally the climax in chorus. –The melody does not changes, but the background. For example in Strawberry Fields Forever and in Julia the singing melody uses the same notes, but instead the accompaniment changes! Listen to Puccini. He got tired of his sang melodies in Boheme and in Tosca he composed a lot where the sang melodies are often on the same notes, but the background changes instead. The effect can be stronger. –Octave Leap. For example, in the middle part of Please Please Me, Lennon makes an octave run in “…it´s so hard to reason with YOU…”, the climax of the song. George Martin didn´t understand the quality in that. In his orchestration of it in Off The Beatle Track, Martin excludes the octave, the most important bit of the song! –Verse and resolve. Typical for Lennon is a melody followed by a resolve, for example in No Reply “…I saw the light!”…and in Girl “girl! girl!…”. Lennon said that “a good song must have climax and resolve”. –Only one chord. In Tomorrow Never Knows there is only one chord, or bass note, an innovation in pop music. In the Middle Ages it was common with that bordun note, an unchanged bass note. When Lennon played the song the first time for George Martin, Martin didn´t like it. –Whole-tone scale. Most scales have both whole step and half steps between the notes in an octave. In the verse in Norwegian Wood, there is most whole steps, and that´s like the impressionists, for example Debussy. It sounds very clean. –Church Modes. A Hard Day´s Night is written in the mixolydian mode, an ancient vocal scale, preserved in British, Irish and American folk song. –If you play the beginning of Please Please Me slowly, you can hear the similarities with the Westminster bells ringing. When Lennon was a little boy, he loved visiting the divine services. Afterwards he used to improvise anthem music. Westminster bells could unconsciously have inspired him to the beginning of Please Please Me. There is also anthem music in the beginning of All You Need Is Love: “love love love…”. –The lamentation second. A little half step up in the scale. And that´s to indicate a pain. In All You Need Is Love Lennon sings the refrain twice unchanged and then suddenly the third time, rises a little, a very expressive and important step up. That step up started in the baroque epoch, and was called The lamentation second. When Lennon played it the first time to George Martin, Martin didn´t like it. He leaned towards McCartney and muttered: “It´s certainly repetitive”. –From darkness to light. Happiness Is a Warm Gun starts with a little melancholy, and ends with enthusiasm.—In the middle part of I Am The Walrus the darkness switches over to light: “sitting in an English garden…”. And the transition from the chaos and darkness in Revolution 9 to the light in Good Night. That is very typical in Wagner´s music. I think that temperamentally the two were similar. And I think Wagner would have loved the arrangement in Glass Onion. –Suggestive and hypnotic music. With small intervals between the notes in combination with some dissonance chord, Lennon can create a suggestive and hypnotic feeling in for example Across The Universe. It is more like Wagner than pop music. –Few notes. With few, but effective notes, Lennon can create more feeling than McCartney with all his notes, for example in If I Fell and Love. –A melody sang three times, in succession, with just a little change every time. When you hear it you can get frustrated or desperate not getting out from the melody. That we have in the middle part in I Call Your Name and in the middle part in And Your Bird Can Sing. And at the same time the melodies are stick together with a countermelody at the guitar. Rather hypnotic

get a life u spent way tooooooo much time on this

When does healthy admiration become obsession?

Live and let live. This man is happy writing what he wrote, and his chosen subject was a brilliant choice: the musical genius and founder of the Beatles, John Lennon. YOU are the one who needs to get his own life.

Wrong , Tony. Johan spends a great deal of his time throughout these blogs with his obsessive love of Lennon and obsessive ignorance/hate of McCartney, this with opinions and self-created thoughts presented as fact with no corroborating sources or quotes. Johan is indeed in need of a life; dog and Robert (particularly) know of what they speak.

Thank you Mike.

Is there a problem with someone wanting to inform other people of famous people? I think it is interesting

beautiful, are you a writer?

Thank you. I am not a writer. I just happened to be paralyzed when I heard Please Please Me and Do You Want To Know a Secret the first time.

John Lennon will never die.

Much of pop and rock music, including heavy metal, is written in the mixolydian mode. As for the rest, you have mischievously selected aspects of music theory to suit your argument. I’m not fooled and I suspect many others aren’t either.

From what I can gather a lot of what makes John Lennon’s Beatle songs musically interesting comes from Paul Mccartney’s involvement (Tomorrow Never Knows, Come Together, A Day in the Life). This is made clear when you look at their solo works.

If you want to talk about Lennon’s genius talk about his lyrics, which flow wonderfully and are full of wonderful imagery. Across the Universe is the best example of this and might very well be Lennon’s best work (it’s also my favorite Beatles song, which is amazing since Paul is my favorite Beatle not John).

I agree! I love John Lennon

When John is still living, I always wish for a Beatles reunion. The day John Lennon died, my wish & hope for their reunion also died. 🙁

All I can say is that it still breaks my heart to know John is no longer here. I was 17 when he was senselessly murdered. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. John is the best musician ever, sadly we only got a small sample of his work. He is so greatly missed by so many. We will always have you in our hearts and mind through your creativity. I so glad you were with us as long as you were.

You forgot to mention the family home before he moved in with his aunt Mimi. He originally lived at 9 Newcastle Road, Wavertree when he was a little boy.

That insect that took him away from his family,friends and us should never be mentioned by name.Throw him on the dustbin of history,that useless git.

May the Lord Jesus, bless and keep your family and friends. I feel your pain. I suppose John had finished his course here on earth, so let’s look forward to seeing him there.

John said this out of pure honesty. At the time, The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

I think Plastic Ono Band is one of the best albums ever. Someone at the height of his fame exposing his vulnerabilities and pain. Remarkable.

I read some where that the night that John got shot Yoko said to the doctors or the news reporters that she didn’t want to announce his death on the tv right away because she said Sean was in front of it.

If you were here today… …you’d love CD’s, email, and trolling on the Internet. Miss you, John. 🙂

that hurt more than it should have

He was controversial yet spiritual. Many never understood him. People misunderstood his words. He would use power of communication to read people. This is partly what resulted to his shooting. He knew folks hated him anyway.

He was an amazing singer. I saw John ,Paul, George and Ringo 1966 in Essen/ Germany. I will never forget the concert, when i was sixteen!!!

John was a true genius. However his most blatant act of stupidity was when he took up with Yoko. I still blame her for being one of the primary reasons for him wanting to leave the Beatles. It’s still a head scratcher to me why he was attracted to her. She had no real talent, she sang like a cat getting it’s tail pulled, her looks were a 2 on a scale of 1-10, and she was dumb as a stump. I will always believe that she somehow brainwashed him.

True. As George Michael sang: “turn a different corner and we never would have met.” I,too, wish John had turned a different corner. He might even still be alive.

I have been a Beatles fan all my life. There music was what helped me when I was growing up. John Lennon will always be a hero to me and I’ll be forever grateful for all of them in my life!

Well, Ono was from a wealthy family and as for her being all those great things you have mentioned….you are probably righ…Japan has the worst bands ever becoming famous just because Japanese tend to like crappy music.

Whatever or whoever Yoko might be, we should respect her simply because John respected her, and she probably saved him from dying of an OD in 69/70. However, her role in the murder is equivocal, and she couldn’t save him from Ronald Reagan’s minions. I agree with Paul, the assassin’s name should be forgotten, he was just a tool.

Ronald Reagans minions? Really, Manteau? Politics has no place here but if you really want to do this I’m game.

This site is intended to celebrate the Beatles’ legacy, which really centers around intimate and universal love. What ironic heartbreak that the comment section is soiled by haters and goons.

John Lennon was probably the most brilliant and prolific music composer of the 20th century. With that brilliance comes a certain inability to relate much as Edison, Tesla and Einstein had difficulty relating. They all shared the commonality of being misunderstood. The man was genius and should there be any doubt look at what he has written and its social impact. He and the rest of the Beatles changed the face of music forever.

I like John Lennon, but the most brilliant and prolific composer of the 20th century is probably George Gershwin (discounting classical music) and I would rank Cole Porter, Bob Dylan, and several others above John Lennon.

Yeah, but let’s hear those other composers sing! On several occasions when I have attended a wedding what song did they play? Not Porter, Dylan, Gershwin or McCartney! John Lennon’s Grow Old With Me.

you are right

Dear Warptek, John had been an fervent supporter of Jimi Carter back in 1976., He had been an undesirable alien in the US of A from 1972 to 1975, when he eventually was granted his green card. He had won…too easily against a disgraced Nixon. In the meantime, John had nothing to fear from Carter’s team. But in November 1980, two things happened almost at the same time : The election of Ronald Reagan and John’s own return to the forefront of the pop*rock scene. You know what happened. Now, if you say politics are a forbidden subject here, we should never talk about John at all! I hate politics, but I’m convinced ( Like Sean ) that John Lennon’s assassination was a political one.

In November of 1980, two things happened almost at the same time: John’s return to the forefront of the pop*rock scene and the “Who Shot JR” episode of Dallas. You know what happened …

he was a really good friend of mine

I noticed a mistake and would like to correct it politely. John’s first school was actually Mosspits County Primary School. He was expelled in 1946 for misbehaviour and then enrolled in Dovedale Road Primary School. My source is ‘An Intimate Day by Day History’ by Barry Miles.

Time really works for Lennon. His compositions can age better.The tendency in later years in the voting of The Beatles best 20 songs, Lennon´s compositions always are dominating, with for example: –Strawberry Fields Forever, –Come Together, –Don´t let Me Down, –I Am The Walrus, –Revolution, –A Day In The Life, –Help, — Rain, –All You Need Is Love and don´t forget Hey Bulldog, a song that George Martin and McCartney stopped being released as single! and now there is a long story of that classic Lennon song in You Tube!! Today Harrison´s songs Something, While My Guitar Weeps and Here Comes The Sun are equally popular as McCartney´s most popular songs!! And Lennon´s solo songs are today more played than McCartney´s, for example: –Jealous Guy, –Imagine, –Woman, – –Instant Karma, –Give peace a Chance, –Love, –A Working Class Hero, –Grow Old With Me (on weddings nowadays). This Lennon´s success is despite George Martin´s always patronizing of him. George Martin preferred McCartney´s conventional and “vertical” melodies.

I don’t know why people persist in describing John’s upbringing as harrowing or tragic. After WW2 there were many children of John’s age, taken from institutions in Liverpool and from dysfunctional family situations, babies to teenagers, who were shipped off to the white commonwealth countries for a supposedly better life. While many did get this, others were horribly abused, physically, sexually, and mentally in foster homes and catholic institutions. Some of these people from John’s generation grew up so psychologically damaged they were institutionalised for the rest of their lives. The rest grew up effectively stateless and denied British citizenship to return to their place of birth and their families. It was years before they received any compensation from the British government and is one of the most shameful episodes in post war British history. John Lennon had a lucky escape. He came from a broken home and that was extremely sad but he was raised by people who loved and protected him and provided the best for him that they could. He grew up to be an angry young songwriter, no doubt about it, but I sometimes sensed that John himself was gaining perspective with increasing maturity before he was senselessly murdered.

In the praised film about The Beatles Eight Days A Week by Ron Howard from 2016, Lennon´s songs are dominating: Please Please Me, You Can´t Do That, A Hard Day´s Night, If I Fell, Help, Ticket to Ride, It´s Only Love, Day Tripper, I´m A Looser, Girl, Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, I´m Only Sleeping, Tomorrow Never Knows, Don´t Let Me Down. When they took up the recording of Sgt Pepper, they played Strawberry Fields Forever, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and A Day In The Life, no other songs from that album,but at the same time there is a big picture of McCartney.(formerly a very common typical situation).

There’s a fine line between healthy admiration and worrisome obsession as another commentator indicated here.

Without McCartney, there would’ve been no Lennon. And vice-versa. Said and done – concisely and simply.

Johan-Thank you once again for your willingness to praise John to the heavens and criticize Paul to no end. Your opinion and you are entitled to it. But, it’s old and repetitive and boring. The Beatles were John, Paul, George and Ringo. Not just John and not just Paul. You will never be objective when it comes to this topic but you will always be a bore. Merry Christmas.

The burden that lies upon a genius’ shoulder is that in spite of the freedom in ways of living, he is driven by an unconcscious and mysterious god within himself. Certain notions and ideas come to him – not knowing where from, not knowing that something within himself is driving him to create and he does not know to what purpouse these notions have. The artist, just like the genius is in a battle between these unconscious urges and the comfort and safety which all humans strive for. For that reason the life of a genius, so often ends in tragedy.

This is, in my opninion, of the upmost truth in the case of John Lennon. His nonchalant attitude when asked about his songwriting, may suggest that he himself, is not even aware of these urges. He suggests that he’s merely “putting words together”. However, the lyrical components of songs such as Strawberry Fields Forever and Across The Universe prove to me that John, was in some sense a higher being. His mind was able to grasp certain aspects that lie in the unconscious of all human beings.

This man was extraordinary, and to me the greatest artist to ever live.

john lennon is the bet singer songwriter of all the time

I was 10 years old when he died I was such a Beatles nerd but that ended when he died.

In the twelve month period from November 1966, John Lennon wrote five of the greatest songs ever – Strawberry Fields, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, A Day in the Life, All You Need is Love and I am the Walrus. Who else is comparable?

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He won an additional five Grammy Awards and an Oscar shared with The Beatles.

In June 2001, it was announced that the Liverpool Airport would be renamed the Liverpool John Lennon Airport in the musician's honor. The actual re-naming occurred in March 2002.

Born in the middle of a German air raid on Oct. 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England, Lennon's early life reflected the turbulence of his arrival in the world. His mother was Julia Stanley, one of five headstrong daughters born to a well-to-do family in Liverpool. His father, Alf "Freddie" Lennon, was a music hall singer and banjo player whose tenure in the Merchant Navy kept him away from his wife for months at a time; a situation preferred by her family. Julia became pregnant by another man in 1944, and lived with an abusive common-law husband in 1946, leaving the adolescent John to be raised largely by her sister, Mimi. In 1946, Alf returned from sea and attempted to take Lennon to New Zealand with him, but was thwarted by Mimi and Julia's companion. Lennon had no contact with his father until the height of Beatlemania, whereupon he rejected attempts to reconcile. Julia Stanley herself would die in 1958 after being run down by an off-duty police officer, leaving sister Mimi to raise Lennon with the help of her husband. His mother's tragic death would haunt both his life and music.

Unlike fellow Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, Lennon was closer in standing to middle class; the area in which Mimi lived was populated by professionals and homeowners. Mimi herself attempted to dissuade Lennon from speaking in a Liverpudlian accent, and attempted to bolster his education by buying literature for him. But Julia had bought a guitar for Lennon when he was a boy, and the music of American rock and rollers like Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley proved alluring to the teenager. He began his own skiffle group in 1956, and began playing local events as a member of the Quarrymen, which he had started with some school friends. A mutual friend introduced Lennon to Paul McCartney in 1957, and the pair began performing together that same year. An instant bond was formed out of both a respect for their mutual musical skills, as well as the fact that both teens had lost their mothers at a young age. A teenaged classmate of McCartney's named George Harrison caught their act in 1958 and joined that year. Mimi found the group - and his band mates - appalling and encouraged Lennon to attend the Liverpool College of Art. It was here where he met and began dating a young woman named Cynthia Powell, who would later become his wife. Despite his artistic talents, his fascination with rock music proved too strong. By 1960, he had dropped out of college, and he, McCartney and Harrison, along with art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe and drummer Pete Best, were playing regular gigs in Germany. Mimi's opinion of the group changed only after Lennon informed her of how much money he was making as one of The Beatles, the group's new name, Lennon's idea in homage to both Buddy Holly's Crickets and the "beat music" the band played.

Manager Brian Epstein discovered The Beatles at the Cavern Club at Liverpool and shopped them around to various labels to no avail until producer George Martin at Parlophone decided to grant them an audition. After a brief change in band members - Best was asked to leave and replaced by Ringo Starr - The Beatles began recording their first songs with this lineup. Lennon and McCartney had been writing together since the Quarrymen days, but the first official Lennon-McCartney song to be recorded was "Love Me Do," with Lennon providing vocals and harmonica. Initially, all of their compositions were listed as "McCartney-Lennon," but after the first LP, the order was reversed and would remain that way for posterity.

With the release of The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me in 1963, Lennon and the group quickly found themselves at the center of fanatical worldwide attention. Lennon dealt with the focus by relying on his penchant for absurd humor and wordplay; he penned two books of humorous abstract poetry and sketches in 1964 and 1965, and displayed a dazzling wit with the press and in live performance. Occasionally, the latter could get the best of him, as evidenced by his notorious 1966 comment that The Beatles were "bigger than Jesus." The statement unleashed a firestorm of protest across the American Bible Belt and from the Vatican, helping to bring an end to the band's days as a touring outfit.

Lennon's caustic wit also factored into his songs with McCartney; whereas the former could be relentlessly upbeat, Lennon could insert a sarcastic spin or offbeat notion into a track that gave it extra dimension. As writing partners, the two were well-matched; both worked extremely quickly - songs were usually penned within an hour or two - and where McCartney was peerless in regard to melody and arrangement, Lennon's strength lay in his lyrics, which could be playful and surreal ("I Am the Walrus," "Come Together") as well as mature and complex ("Norwegian Wood," "Nowhere Man"). Though the group's decisions were generally democratic, Lennon and McCartney were notoriously tough on Harrison and Starr's compositions; Harrison, in particular, became increasingly frustrated that he could not place more than one or two of his own songs on an album, despite his growing prowess as a songwriter.

In 1962, Cynthia Powell discovered that she was pregnant with Lennon's child; the couple married that same year (much to Mimi's displeasure) and son John Charles Julian Lennon was born in 1963. Initially, the couple enjoyed as quiet and happy a life as one could in the eye of Beatlemania, but by 1964, the pressures of being a Beatle and his growing interest in marijuana (introduced to him by Bob Dylan) and LSD created an unfathomable gulf between the couple. In 1966, Lennon met avant-garde artist Yoko Ono and began a two-year affair that frequently spilled into public view. A horrified Powell filed for divorce in 1968 and despite her pain at the shoddy treatment given her by her ex, admitted she never stopped loving him.

By the mid-1960s, Lennon and The Beatles had changed significantly from their jovial Mop Top personas. The group stopped touring in 1966, focusing exclusively on their songwriting and albums. The period produced some of Lennon's most remarkable work within the group; most notably the psychedelic anthems "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (reportedly inspired by a painting done by Julian) and "Strawberry Fields Forever" (a nostalgic nod to a Salvation Army Children's Home in Liverpool where Lennon heard some of his first live music), as well as "All You Need Is Love," which placed Lennon firmly within the growing peace movement. But tensions were developing within the group, specifically between Lennon and McCartney, who had assumed the leadership role after the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein. Lennon had always been the band's acknowledged leader, but his relationship with Ono (and the firestorm of negative criticism hurled at her by the press), drug use (which now included a brief dalliance with heroin), and growing interest in the anti-war movement had shifted his primary focus away from the band. Still, he resented McCartney's suggestions, such as a return to live performance, and projects like the "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967) album and television special and "Let It Be" (1970) documentary. By 1968, Lennon would only appear at a Beatles recording session with Ono in tow, which drove a further wedge between the members, who resented her constant presence and became, in fact, jealous of the attention he lavished on her instead of them.

As The Beatles began to slowly implode over the next two years, Lennon made significant strides to establish his own identity outside of the group. He had stepped away from them in 1966 to co-star in "How I Won the War," a satirical and surreal anti-war film for Richard Lester - who had previously directed Lennon in The Beatles features "A Hard Day's Night" (1964) and "Help!" (1965) - but by 1968, he was appearing more and more without his band mates. His first performance outside of The Beatles since his pre-Quarrymen days came in "The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus" (1968) as part of The Dirty Mac, a supergroup featuring Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He and Ono also released a trio of experimental albums through The Beatles' Apple Records: 1968's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins , which gained worldwide attention for its cover photo of a full frontal nude Lennon and Ono; Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions ; and Wedding Album . All three were deeply avant-garde affairs, filled with Lennon's guitar feedback and Ono's keening vocalizations, and did little to cheer Beatles fans already troubled by reports of the group's tensions. 1969 also saw the release of Live Peace in Toronto , a live album with Clapton, longtime Beatles associate Klaus Voorman, Ono, and Yes drummer Alan White, finding Lennon tearing through several classic rock songs from the '50s with renewed vigor, as well as two lengthy experimental tracks by Ono.

In 1969, Lennon and Ono married in Gibraltar, and decided to use their honeymoon in Amsterdam as a publicity event to promote world peace. Their "Bed-In," which took place over the course of a week at the Amsterdam Hilton, found the couple in bed and happily discussing peace with inquisitive reporters. They later flew to Vienna to promote their tongue-in-cheek protest against racism, which they called "Bagism" and required the participant to cover their entire body with a large bag. A second Bed-In was held in mid-1969 in Montreal, where he and several celebrities - including Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary - recorded his anthem "Give Peace a Chance." The song was immediately picked up by the peace movement, and was performed by no less than a half a million demonstrators in Washington DC at the second Vietnam Moratorium Day in late 1969. Though the press frequently attempted to pass off Lennon and Ono's theatrical protests as eccentric, no other major rock performer of the period devoted as much time and energy to promoting the cause of world peace as Lennon.

That same year, Lennon declared that he was quitting The Beatles, as relations between the four members were so divisive during the recording of their final albums, Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), that the band members were rarely performing in the same studio, much less speaking to one another. Lennon agreed to keep the news of his departure a secret until negotiations for the group's final recording contract were completed. However, McCartney revealed that he was leaving the group in early 1970, timing it to coincide with the release of his own solo debut, which infuriated Lennon and the other two Beatles. He publicly chastised McCartney in interviews for several years after the group's breakup; even putting his feelings about his former writing partner onto vinyl with the devastating "How Do You Sleep?" from his 1971 solo album Imagine . In Lennon's mind, he had loved McCartney like the brother he never had and his trumping announcement was a final betrayal. The duo would not mend fences for several years.

Lennon worked hard to shed his Beatles skin in the 1970s, but his musical efforts often struggled to reach the same audiences as his work with the group. His 1970 single "Instant Karma" was well-received, but "Cold Turkey" (about his experiences withdrawing from heroin) was not. His first post-Beatles solo album was 1970's John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band , on which he unleashed years of pent-up frustration and anger at societal injustices - particularly at the hands of organized religion - and his own childhood traumas; much of the album's harrowing sound was due to Lennon and Ono's exploration of primal therapy. The album broke the Top 10 in America and the U.K, but failed to beat McCartney's more mainstream solo efforts. One of the album's best songs, "Working Class Hero," was even banned in several markets for the use of an expletive. Its follow-up LP, 1971's Imagine , fared much better with listeners. The primal therapy touches and attacks on religion from Plastic Ono Band were still present, but balancing them out were the gorgeous title track, which became one of Lennon's most enduring compositions, as well as the deeply personal "Jealous Guy" (which began life as a Beatles track titled "Child of Nature") and the politically charged track "Gimme Some Truth." The album rose to the top position on record charts and became a perennial seller for fans discovering Lennon's first truly accessible solo work for the first time.

Lennon and Ono relocated from England to New York City that year, and trouble beset the couple almost immediately. He began making the acquaintance of several noted members of the American peace movement, including Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, and planned a 1972 national tour to coincide with the upcoming election that would encourage 18 year olds - who had received the right to vote that year - to register and vote against the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon. The Nixon Administration launched a campaign to deport Lennon from the country on the basis of a 1968 marijuana conviction, forcing him to spend the next several years fighting to stay in America. The tour never came to fruition, but Lennon and Ono actively spoke out against the war in Vietnam and Nixon, including their infamous week-long stint on "The Mike Douglas Show" (syndicated, 1961-1982), which saw them inviting Hoffman and Rubin to appear as guests. The immigration battle and Nixon's re-election in 1972 took its toll on Lennon, as did the failure of his third solo album, the politically-charged Some Time in New York City (1972). McCartney had also gone to court to dissolve The Beatles' partnership during this period as well, which meant that all four ex-members were unable to earn money from their solo careers until the case was settled (which was not until 1976). Lennon performed two charity concerts at Madison Square Garden that year, which would be his final full-length appearances.

Behind the scenes, he was struggling with alcohol, and his marriage to Ono was crumbling. At her behest, they separated, and he relocated to Los Angeles for 18 months with his assistant, May Pang, whom Ono had put in charge to assist him in both business and extra-marital duties; a mistress of sorts whom she could control from afar. The period, dubbed Lennon's "Lost Weekend," saw him produce the album Pussy Cats (1974) for notorious hellraiser Harry Nilsson and indulge in drunken and cocaine-fueled excesses with Starr and Who drummer Keith Moon. Lennon was widely photographed with Pang, and earned headlines around the world for being forcibly thrown out of the Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood after heckling the Smothers Brothers act after downing one too many Brandy Alexanders at Nilsson's behest. He also managed to reunite briefly with McCartney for a chaotic, drug-fueled jam session that was recorded on the bootleg album A Toot and a Snore (1974).

Lennon and Pang returned to New York in 1974, which was followed by a period of extensive writing and recording. An attempted album of oldies covers with Phil Spector fell apart, with Lennon later re-recording the tracks for his 1975 solo LP Rock 'n Roll . But 1973 saw the release of the gold album Mind Games , followed by collaborations with Elton John, David Bowie (Lennon co-wrote his No. 1 single "Fame") and Mick Jagger. In 1974, he and Pang returned to New York, and Lennon performed his final live appearance in front of a major audience at a concert by Elton John at Madison Square Garden. Lennon signed the papers that dissolved The Beatles' partnership in 1975, and for the first time in almost half a decade, he and McCartney began regarding each other with something approaching warmth.

In 1975, Pang and Lennon ended their unusual relationship, and he reconciled with Ono. On October 9th of that year - Lennon's 35th birthday - Ono gave birth to their son, Sean Ono Lennon, later a respected musician in his own right. The event was little short of a miracle, as Ono had miscarried three previous times. Lennon turned his back on the music industry and devoted his full energies to raising his son and attempting to rekindle his long dormant relationship with Julian, whom he had seen sporadically during the 1970s (and who would develop a music career of his own in the mid-1980s). For the next five years, Lennon stayed largely out of the spotlight; he was the best man at actor Peter Boyle's wedding in 1977, and received McCartney at his home in the Dakota apartment in New York on several occasions, most notably on the evening in 1976 that Lorne Michaels made an appeal for all four Beatles to reunite on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ). Both men considered it for a laugh, but were too tired to carry it through. He also fulfilled a lifelong dream of learning to sail, and traveled to Bermuda with a small crew in 1980. The angry young man of the 1960s and 1970s was settling into a content state as he approached his 40th year, happy to be nothing more than, as he called it, "a bread-baking house husband" and doting father, while "Mother" (his pet name for Ono) ran the lucrative Lennon business in the office downstairs in their high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Dakota.

The trip to Bermuda proved fruitful for Lennon beyond his sailing aspirations. He had been writing and recording the occasional song in New York, but after arriving in the Caribbean, he was seized by the creative spark and began writing new material and reworking existing songs. Ono herself was working on new material - her singing career had survived the brickbats of her earliest critics and was finding new appreciation in punk and avant-garde circles - so by August of 1980, the pair had enough material to fill not one, but two albums. The first release would be Double Fantasy , which marked the first time Lennon and Ono had recorded an album together since Some Time in New York City . Unlike the harsh and overly political tone of that album, Double Fantasy had a gentler vibe, befitting Lennon's newfound homemaking happiness. Songs like "(Just Like) Starting Over," a tribute to the mending of his relationship to Ono; "Watching the Wheels," about his days as a house husband; and his achingly beautiful tribute to Sean, "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)," were met with overwhelmingly positive response by listeners, who sent the songs to the top of the charts and the album itself to the Top 20 in the U.S. A jubilant and recharged Lennon and Ono began rehearsals for a projected follow-up, titled Milk and Honey .

But their newfound happiness with both family and career was about to come to an unbearable end that no one could have predicted. On Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were returning from the studio to the Dakota around 10:50 p.m. As they approached their apartment complex, a deranged young man who claimed to be a fan, Mark David Chapman, who had waited outside the Dakota earlier that same day to have Lennon sign his copy of Double Fantasy , approached the couple and shot Lennon four times in the back, then calmly stepped outside to await his arrest, clutching his copy of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye to his chest. The former Beatle was rushed by police on the scene to the Roosevelt Hospital, where he died of massive blood loss just 20 minutes later. Howard Cosell broke the news to America within minutes during an NFL football game. A massive vigil formed outside the Dakota that night and for days after, with tributes to the fallen artist soon spreading across the globe. A grief-stricken Ono asked for 10 minutes of silence on Dec. 14, 1980, and millions complied. Thousands gathered in Liverpool and Central Park in New York to pay their respects, many crying, holding candles and chanting "Give Peace a Chance." Ono would later oversee the construction of Strawberry Fields, a memorial garden situated across from the Dakota, which opened on Lennon's birthday in 1985.

Lennon's senseless death was memorialized by countless artists and musicians, including Paul Simon, Queen, and Elton John -Sean Lennon's godfather, who penned his own tribute to his friend, "Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)" in 1982 - as well as the three remaining Beatles who, more than anyone, were shell-shocked. Putting any remaining personal rancor aside, McCartney and Starr reunited with Harrison for the song "All Those Years Ago" from his Somewhere in England LP, and McCartney penned the incredibly touching "Here Today" for his Tug of War album in 1982. Lennon's own final recordings shot up the charts in the wake of his passing, and Ono worked tirelessly to make sure that his recordings - both previously issued and unreleased - and legacy were preserved for his ever-growing legion of fans. Two of those unreleased songs, "Free As a Bird" and "Real Love," were reworked by the surviving Beatles for the massive "Beatles Anthology" project, and released as singles in 1995 and 1996.

In the decades since his death, Lennon was essentially canonized by the press and fans for his independent streak, immense songwriting talents, and tireless campaigning for peace. In 1991, he received an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer in 1994 (The Beatles had been inducted as a group in 1988). Parks, airports, and even a minor planet in 1983 were named in his honor. In 2002, the BBC listed him eighth in a list of the 100 Greatest Britons. And in 2007, Ono dedicated a memorial to her husband in Iceland, the Imagine Peace Tower, which generated a beam of light into the sky each year between October 9 and December 8.

Lennon's music found new admirers every year thanks to compilations and reissues supervised by Ono. A feature film on Lennon's life called simply "Imagine: John Lennon" was released to wide acclaim in 1988. She and the other surviving Beatles also collaborated with the French acrobatic troupe Cirque du Soleil on their show "Love," which was built entirely around Beatles songs reworked and re-imagined by their original producer, George Martin. The production debuted at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas in 2006, and Ono accompanied McCartney, Starr, and Olivia Harrison to the show's one-year anniversary in 2007. That same year, teenaged girls around the world fell in love with Lennon's music with The Beatles when it was featured in Julie Taymor's romantic fantasy film "Across the Universe." It was apparent that Lennon's persona - that of an angry young man; a fragile man; a man with faults he shared with the world like no other - would never be forgotten, as each year, even decades later, fans of all ages continued to honor him with candlelit services outside the Dakota on both his birthdate and the day his life was ended.

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Started first music group "The Quarrymen"

Paul McCartney and George Harrison joined the group

Newly-named "Beatles" discovered by promoter Brian Epstein; first commercial record, "My Bonnie"

EMI signed group (which now included Ringo Starr), first hit records released

The Beatles rocketed to worldwide stardom

Met Yoko Ono at London art gallery

Lennon and Ono arrested "for possession of cannabis"

Married Yoko Ono; held "Bed-In for Peace"; legally changed middle name to "Ono"; formed "Plastic Ono Band"; returned MBE to Queen Elizabeth

Best-selling album <i>Imagine</i> released

Made last public performance (Nov. 28) at Madison Square Garden

Given resident status in U.S. after years of wrangling with State Department

Shot to death by deranged fan Mark David Chapman outside of NYC home on Dec. 8, 1980

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Nowhere Boy (2009)
Nowhere Boy: Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt. A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
In His Life: The John Lennon Story (TV Movie 2000)
In His Life: The John Lennon Story: Directed by David Carson. With Philip McQuillan, Daniel McGowan, Mark Rice-Oxley, Jamie Glover. A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.
John Lennon
John Lennon. Actor: A Hard Day's Night. John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul ...
Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy is a 2009 British biographical drama film, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood in her directorial debut. Written by Matt Greenhalgh, it is based on Julia Baird's biography of her half-brother, the musician John Lennon. Nowhere Boy is about the teenage years of Lennon (Aaron Johnson), his relationships with his aunt Mimi Smith (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his mother Julia Lennon (Anne-Marie ...
In His Life: The John Lennon Story
85 minutes. Production companies. Michael O'Hara Productions. NBC Studios. Original release. Release. December 3, 2000. ( 2000-12-03) In His Life: The John Lennon Story is a 2000 American made-for-television biographical film about John Lennon 's teenage years, written by the film's executive producer, Michael O'Hara, and directed by David Carson .
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Website. johnlennon .com. Signature. John Winston Ono Lennon [nb 1] (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician. He gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His work included music, writing, drawings and film.
Nowhere Boy
Movie Info. A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) lives with his Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) in working-class Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and ...
John Lennon
John Lennon. Actor: A Hard Day's Night. John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul ...
Top 10 John Lennon & Beatles Movies
10. The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) PG-13 | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music. A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist. Directors: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stew Albert, Tariq Ali.
John Lennon's Teenage Years: Rocking and Roiling
Lennon's Teenage Years: Rocking and Roiling. Aaron Johnson as a young John Lennon in "Nowhere Boy," directed by Sam Taylor-Wood. Weinstein Company. At its most obvious, the title of ...
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during a German air raid in World War II. When he was four years old, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up ...
Imagine (1972 film)
Imagine is a 1972 feature-length music film by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, filmed at their Tittenhurst Park home in Ascot, England, and in various locations in London and New York between May and September 1971. All the songs from Lennon's 1971 Imagine album appear in the soundtrack, and also the songs "Mrs. Lennon", "Mind Train", "Don't Count the Waves" and "Midsummer New York" from Ono's 1971 ...
Films about the Beatles
Votes: 38,785 | Gross: $1.45M. 4. Two of Us (2000 TV Movie) PG-13 | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Music. In 1976, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have a chat about their lives and discuss whether The Beatles will ever reunite. Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris, Ric Reid, Martin Martinuzzi.
John Lennon
John Lennon (born October 9, 1940, Liverpool, England—died December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.) leader or coleader of the British rock group the Beatles, author and graphic artist, solo recording artist, and collaborator with Yoko Ono on recordings and other art projects. John Lennon and Yoko Ono holding their marriage certificate ...
Category:Films about John Lennon
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (video) Lennon Naked; LennoNYC; Live in New York City (John Lennon album) N. Nowhere Boy; S. Self-Portrait (film) Sweet Toronto; T. Two of Us (2000 film) U. The U.S. vs. John Lennon This page was last edited on 17 August 2019, at 09:54 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of ...
Apple TV+ debuts trailer for "John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial
"John Lennon: Murder Without A Trial" is a deeply researched examination of John Lennon's 1980 murder, which shocked and saddened the world. The production was granted extensive Freedom of Information Act requests from the New York City Police Department, the Board of Parole and the District Attorney's office; and the series includes ...
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Director: Matthew Longfellow | Stars: The Beatles, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney. 31. Cook & Banks (2015) Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s.
John Lennon biography
God bless America. Thank you, Jesus. John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool on 9 October 1940. He was a founder member of The Beatles, and their singer, songwriter and guitarist. Lennon was murdered in New York City on 8 December 1980.
John Lennon
The Beatles Anthology (1995) John and Yoko's Imagine (1990) John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert (1972) Host. Producer (Special) Gimme Some Truth: The Making of the "Imagine" Album (2000) Producer. John Lennon and Yoko Ono Present the One-to-One Concert (1972) Producer.
John Lennon Filmography and Movies
Yellow Submarine. John (singing voice) 1968. The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Actor. 1967. How I Won the War. Gripweed. 1964.
John Lennon movie reviews & film summaries
Sheila writes: John Lennon kept a sketchbook throughout his life, filled with little drawings and doodles, and in 1986 Yoko Ono commissioned Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker to make them into a short film. The short film, "The John Lennon Sketchbook" hit Youtube officially on May 15 of this year. The images are accompanied by audio ...
John Lennon List of Movies and TV Shows
John Lennon: A Tribute. John Lennon: A Journey in the Life. Man Who Shot John Lennon. John & Yoko's Year of Peace. Hot Sexy Forever. Murder of John Lennon. The John Lennon Assassination. Get Up ...

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