Liverpool was a home to four very famous men, John Lennon being one of them.  John was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England.  When he was only five years old, he was left with the decision of choosing between his mother and father.  He ended up choosing his mother but was mainly raised by his Aunt Mimi and her husband.  John was 17 when he first joined The Beatles (The Quarrymen) and was said to be the "leader" of the group.  Some said he had the

 resemblance of Elvis.  John asked Paul to join the band after witnessing Paul play John's guitar upside down because he was left handed.  John kept the band together through the hard, rough years.  When The Beatles were about to call it quits in 1960, John persuaded them to keep going and stick together.  By the time John was 23, he had all the fame that he could have asked for.  It was such an experience for him to come over to America and get the response he did.

   In 1966, John made the mistake of saying The Beatles were more popular than Jesus.  This didn't cause such a fuss in England, but over in America, people were burning their Beatles albums, ruining poster, the Ku Klux Klan was nailing Beatles albums to burning crosses, and one newspaper stated The Beatles should be "fumigated."  This once loved musician, was now being hated by all of America.

   When The Beatles started recording The White Album, Yoko Ono came along and the breakup started.  The group, for this album, spent more time writing their own songs individually then they did together.  Paul and John's relationship soon began to strain and they were growing further apart than ever before.  Yoko was soon at every recording session that John attended.  A studio technician even claimed Yoko moved her bed into the studio.  When The While Album  finally came out in 1968, fans were going wild from craving new Beatles songs for so long.  It had been only three months since their last single came out, but 18 months since Sgt. Pepper was released.  The White Album did so well, it was even the best-selling double album of all time, before the Saturday Night Fever sound track came out in '77.

   All of The Beatles were excited about the success of the new album, and as their excitement grew, so did the love between Yoko and John.  Even though John didn't like Yoko too much in the beginning, he definitely too her breath away.  John met Yoko at a London art gallery on November 6, 1966.  Yoko had apparently walked up to John, not saying anything, and handed him a card that said, "Breathe" on the front.  John was suddenly intrigued by her and actually sponsored one of her shows a year later.  All the while he was taking interest in her. 

    Not long after, they became an inseparable couple.  Soon enough, Yoko was being blamed for the break up of The Beatles... whish she should be blamed for.

    John Lennon wrote a song in a very emotional time.  It was a year of violence and unloving times in America.  The war was raging in Vietnam and the shocking deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.  The song was

 called, "Revolution" and meant a lot more to John then any of the songs he had written in years.  This song marked only the beginning of political songs by Lennon like, "Give Peace a Chance," "Power to the People," and his most popular, "Imagine."

The final cut to say The Beatles were over was on the night of December 8, 1980.  John was shot and killed.  John and Yoko were stepping out of their cab outside of the Dakota building just before 11pm when Mark David Chapman came out from the shadows and shot Lennon.  The ex-Beatle member stumbled and dropped the pile of cassettes he was holding. 

John Lennon then died on the way to the hospital half an hour later.  Only days before his death, John had stated 

he still believed that human beings could make a difference.  He had said, "Where there's life, there's hope."

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