John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940. He grew up with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George Smith in Liverpool because his parents had marital problems.
John didn’t like school, skipped classes, and did some petty stealing. He moved to Liverpool Art College because he liked art. There, he found an interest in music.
	John, whose idol was Elvis Presley, begged his aunt for a guitar. She reluctantly agreed but said he’d never be any good. In 1955, John started his own band – The Quarrymen with his life-long friend, Pete Shotton and Nigel Walley and Ivan Vaughan.
Ivan introduced John to his friend, Paul McCartney, in 1957. Gradually, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best replaced Pete Shotton, Nigel, and Ivan. Then, in 1960, they changed their name to The Beatles.
	John married Cynthia Powell in 1962, and their son Julian was born in 1963. John met Yoko Ono on November 9, 1966 at the preview of her art exhibit.
He divorced Cynthia on August 22, 1968 and married Yoko on March 20, 1969. On September 20, 1969, John discreetly informed the band that he wanted to leave.  In 1970, they disbanded.
	On October 9, 1977, John and Yoko’s son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon, was born. A mentally ill man, convinced that ridding the world of John Lennon would cure his malady, assassinated John on December 8, 1980. He was shot five times in the back.

John Lennon

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