Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 09, 1940
Died
Dec 08, 1980
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Credits
364 titles
John Lennon
Biography
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Known For
Filmography
John Lennon: The Last Interview
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
Self
Man on the Run
Self (archive footage)
Evolver 62
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
Self (archive footage)
A Love Letter to the Beatles
Self (archive footage)
As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
Self
The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
Self (archive footage)
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
Self (archive footage)
TWST / Things We Said Today
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles
Self (archive footage)
David Frost Vs
self (archive footage)
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Beatles '64
Self (archive footage)
Elton John: Never Too Late
Self (archive footage)
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
Self (archive footage)
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Self (archive footage)
Here Today
Self (Music)
Man.
Music
Daytime Revolution
Self (archive footage)
An Ordered Hit of a Man (In Sequence)
Music
Hinckley
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles LOVE
Music
The Bannfoot Ferry
Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
Self (archive footage)
Paul McCartney: Got Back
Self (archive footage)
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
Self (archive footage)
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles and the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
Self (archive footage)
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Self (archive footage)
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Self (archive footage)
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Louder Than Rock
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Self (archive voice)
Infamous Crime Scenes: John Lennon
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
Self
If These Walls Could Sing
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr: One of Them
Self (archive footage)
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
Self
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
Self (archive footage)
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
Self (archive footage)
The Beatles: Get Back
Self (archive footage)