John Lennon Short Biography

Introduction

Hello I am going to write about John Lennon who was a famous singer and songwriter under the 1960s to the 1980s and was a part of the famous band Beatles.

BACKROUND/CHILDHOOD

John Lennon had a rough childhood with being the only child in the family and his parents got divorced when he was very young. He lived the most of his childhood with his aunt. His mother thought him how to play guitar and piano and she thought him this when she visited them. John did not see that much of his father as a child. When John was a teenager his mother died in a car accident and that made John really depressed and sad. John did get in a lot of trouble as a child and he did not perform that good in school but he liked to draw. John 's teacher

The most of his adult life was to create the band Beatles but its a story behind it. John 's friend Paul introduced John to George Harrison and another art college friend who was named Stuart Sutcliffe and both of these joined John 's band. After this John only needed a drummer and the band could be set. He found a drummer in 1960 and the band was complete. John was around twenty years old when they recorded their first song called That 'll be the Day. In this year they were still called Quarry men but another band inspired them to change their name to Beatles. When they played at a club in Liverpol a man named Brian Epstein became their manager because he saw them play at the club and he got Beatles a record contract with EMI. When this happened they also got a new drummer who was called Ringo Starr and soon after they released their first single Love Me Do in 1962. Most of Beatles songs were inspired of a lot of different people. After their first single a lot of songs started to be created by Beatles and it was John who wrote most of the

Beatlemania took place in 1964 in United States and when they got to the USA a lot of people waited and shared for them att the arrival on the airport. Beatle had become a big idol for many girls in the United States and under the beginning in United States they were on a television show. John and his band was the first british rock band to break out big in America. Beatles returned to England and recorded a breakthrough and the album was called Rubber Soul. You can say that the end of Beatlemania was at 1966. John made a big mistake by saying that the band was more popular than Jesus most of the Americans believed in god and reacted and acted very hard on this. People started to burn Beatles records and got very angry. John and the band took a break after this and John and Cynthia divorced and soon after that John meet the women that had a huge impact on his life. John 's new wife was named Yoko Ono who was from Japan.

When the band started playing again in 1967 something terrible happened. The drummer died from an overdose which made the Beatles broke