Release of John's biggest hit, 'Imagine', they moved to the US, where John was nearly deported because of his political views (a late-'60sĬonviction for possession of hashish in the U.K. In the early 1970s John and Yoko continued to record together, making television appearances and performing at charity concerts. Their first two albums, 'Two Virgins' and 'Life With The Lions', were experimental and flops by Beatles standards, while their 'Wedding Album' was almost a vanity work, but their live album 'Live Peace In Toronto' became a Top Ten hit, at the end of the 1960s. In the late 1960s John began performing and making albums with his second wife Yoko Ono, as the Beatles began to break up. Instead of appearing live, the band began making their own 'pop clips' (an early term for music videos), which were featured on television programs of the time. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', 'Magical Mystery Tour' and the 'White Album'. They devoted themselves to studio work, recording and releasing albums such as 'Sgt. John and the Beatles continued to tour and perform live until 1966, when protests over his calling the Beatles phenomenon 'more popular than Jesus' and the frustrations of touring made the band decide to quit the road. medals in 1965, for import revenues from their record sales John returned his four years later, as part of an antiwar statement. Queen Elizabeth II granted all four Beatles M.B.E.

The next year the Beatles flew to America to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show), and Beatlemania spread worldwide. That same year, John's first wife Cynthia Lennon welcomed their only son Julian Lennon, named after John's mother. Of their singles 'Love Me Do' and 'Please Please Me'. After some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany, 'Beatlemania' erupted in England and Europe in 1963 after the release

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 McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles. He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. 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.

John Lennon by Pablo Maiztegui