John Lennon " The Legend with a farious History "
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| John Lennon |
John Winston Ono Lennon was born (9 Oct 1940 ) in Liverpool England . He is a singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of The Beatles “ the most Famous successful band in the history with more than millions Fans of that era until now.This Band Formation is Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated song-eriting partnership.
But in 1969 John Lennon
left The Beatles and released albums with his wife,Yoko Ono.On Dese 8 1980. he
attempted to transform the world through nonmusical means. To many they
appeared as nave crackpots; Ono in particular has been victim of some appalling
insults in the press. One example shown in the film Imagine depicts the
cartoonist Al Capp being both hostile and dangerously abusive. Their bed-in in
Amsterdam and Montreal, their black bag appearances on stage, their innocent
flirting with political activists and radicals, all received massive media
attention. These events were in search of world peace, which regrettably was
unachievable. What Lennon did achieve, however, was to educate us all to the
idea of world peace. During the Gulf War of 1991, time and time again various
representatives of those countries who were initially opposed to war (and then
asked for a cease-fire), unconsciously used Lennon's words; "Give Peace A
Chance". The importance of that lyric could never have been contemplated,
when a bunch of mostly stoned members of the Plastic Ono Band sat on the floor
of the Hotel La Reine and recorded "Give Peace A Chance", a song that
has grown in stature since its release in 1969.
Lennon's solo career
began a year earlier with Unfinished Music No 1 - Two Virgins . The sleeve
depicted him and Ono standing naked, and the cover became better known than the
disjointed sound effects contained within. Three months later Lennon continued
his marvelous joke on us, with Unfinished Music No 2 - Life With The Lions .
One side consisted of
John and Yoko calling out to each other during her stay in a London hospital
while pregnant. Lennon camped by the side of her bed during her confinement and
subsequent miscarriage. Four months after "Give Peace a Chance", "Cold
Turkey" arrived via the Plastic Ono Band, consisting of Lennon, Ono, Eric
Clapton, Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White. This raw rock song about heroin
withdrawal was also a hit, although it failed to make the UK Top 10. Again,
Lennon's incorrigible wit worked when he sent back his MBE to the Queen,
protesting about the Biafran war, Britain supporting the American involvement
in Vietnam and "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts.
He choose the make a solo
carrier. And his most creative year was 1971.John Lennon released “Power to The
People”. After his move to New York, the follow-up Imagine was released in October. The album
immediately went to the number 1 internationally, it was a patchy
collection. The attack on Paul McCartney in "How Do You Sleep?" was
labored over in the press and it took two decades before another track,
"Jealous Guy", was accepted as a classic, and only then after Bryan
Ferry's masterly cover became a number 1 hit. Lennon's resentment towards
politicians was superbly documented in "Gimme Some Truth" when he
spat out, "I'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight,
shortsighted, narrow-minded hypocrites". The title track, however, remains
as one of his greatest songs. Musically "Imagine" is extraordinarily simple, but the
combination of that simplicity and the timeless lyrics make it one of the finest
songs of the century. A Christmas single came in December, "Happy
Christmas (War Is Over)", another song destined for immortality and annual
reissue. Again, an embarrassingly simple message: "War is over if you want
it". |
| John Lennon |
John Winston Ono Lennon was born (9 Oct 1940 ) in Liverpool England . He is a singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of The Beatles “ the most Famous successful band in the history with more than millions Fans of that era until now.This Band Formation is Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated song-eriting partnership.
But in 1969 John Lennon left The Beatles and released albums with his wife,Yoko Ono.On Dese 8 1980. he attempted to transform the world through nonmusical means. To many they appeared as nave crackpots; Ono in particular has been victim of some appalling insults in the press. One example shown in the film Imagine depicts the cartoonist Al Capp being both hostile and dangerously abusive. Their bed-in in Amsterdam and Montreal, their black bag appearances on stage, their innocent flirting with political activists and radicals, all received massive media attention. These events were in search of world peace, which regrettably was unachievable. What Lennon did achieve, however, was to educate us all to the idea of world peace. During the Gulf War of 1991, time and time again various representatives of those countries who were initially opposed to war (and then asked for a cease-fire), unconsciously used Lennon's words; "Give Peace A Chance". The importance of that lyric could never have been contemplated, when a bunch of mostly stoned members of the Plastic Ono Band sat on the floor of the Hotel La Reine and recorded "Give Peace A Chance", a song that has grown in stature since its release in 1969.
Lennon's solo career began a year earlier with Unfinished Music No 1 - Two Virgins . The sleeve depicted him and Ono standing naked, and the cover became better known than the disjointed sound effects contained within. Three months later Lennon continued his marvelous joke on us, with Unfinished Music No 2 - Life With The Lions .
One side consisted of John and Yoko calling out to each other during her stay in a London hospital while pregnant. Lennon camped by the side of her bed during her confinement and subsequent miscarriage. Four months after "Give Peace a Chance", "Cold Turkey" arrived via the Plastic Ono Band, consisting of Lennon, Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White. This raw rock song about heroin withdrawal was also a hit, although it failed to make the UK Top 10. Again, Lennon's incorrigible wit worked when he sent back his MBE to the Queen, protesting about the Biafran war, Britain supporting the American involvement in Vietnam and "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts.
He choose the make a solo carrier. And his most creative year was 1971.John Lennon released “Power to The People”. After his move to New York, the follow-up Imagine was released in October. The album immediately went to the number 1 internationally, it was a patchy collection. The attack on Paul McCartney in "How Do You Sleep?" was labored over in the press and it took two decades before another track, "Jealous Guy", was accepted as a classic, and only then after Bryan Ferry's masterly cover became a number 1 hit. Lennon's resentment towards politicians was superbly documented in "Gimme Some Truth" when he spat out, "I'm sick and tired of hearing things from uptight, shortsighted, narrow-minded hypocrites". The title track, however, remains as one of his greatest songs. Musically "Imagine" is extraordinarily simple, but the combination of that simplicity and the timeless lyrics make it one of the finest songs of the century. A Christmas single came in December, "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)", another song destined for immortality and annual reissue. Again, an embarrassingly simple message: "War is over if you want it".
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