Birth Date and Place
John Winston Lennon was born on October 9th 1940 at Oxford St Maternity Hospital. While John was being delivered bombs were dropping left and right because of world war 2. Johns mother Julia had been married to Freddie, who was in the military, Freddie was on leave when John was being born. Mimi, Julia's sister, took over for her when Julia was recovering from having John since Freddie wasn't around. During that time Julia had lost touch with Freddie, as far as they knew he had been killed while being on deployment. As John got older another man came into his life, his mother's new boyfriend, who was also named John. Not too much longer into Julia starting over Freddie came back into the picture he was assuming things would be just as he left them little did he know they would be quite different. Throughout this time in his life he was thrown around quite a bit going back and forth between parents and Aunt.
Family Members
Johns only family was his Mother Julia who was always apart of his life including his two sisters, his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George who raised him they didnt have children. Johns father wasnt always
Childhood and School Life
John spent most of his childhood playing with the boys in his neighborhood, during his younger age he was living with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, in their neighborhood Pete Shotten was his best friend they were best friends all through their teen years. The boys started their own little club with all the younger kids, Lennon and Shotten started calling eachother Shennon and Lotten as a joke and it stuck for a long time. They always got into some kind of trouble their most famous ideas was to tie a rope to a tall tree that ran along the street and everytime a bus would come by they would swing out towards the bus and scare the people the drivers eventually caught on to the boys and their jokes. The Strawberry Feilds was another place John loved to go it was the local orphanage they always had music events or carnivals there. John
was always so excited to go see what was new. The boys eventually formed a band, they called themselves The Quarry Men the only things they had to use for instruments was household items once they grew up a bit more they started playing at the Strawberry Feilds when they had concerts. When John was about 6 his father came back into his life and they lived together for not that long then he realized he didnt want to live with him so he moved back in with his Aunt and Uncle. He did stay with his mother but not untill he was about 13 or so.
His school life in the beginning was very normal all of his teachers always had good things to say, up into his high school career thats when he started getting the reports that he wasnt doing well and a disruption in class and wasnt ever going anywhere. John knew what he wanted to do in life and doing actual school work wasnt it. Music was all he wanted.
Hobbies and Activities
Music was Johns only true hobby besides causing trouble growing up. When he was in high school he was a writer in his school newspaper he always had some kind of controversy to cause. Everyone always looked forward to Johns next article. But music was always his main goal. On his downtime he liked to just hang out with the guys and joke around, once the Beatles formed his
favorite pass time with them was coming up with new lyrics. But after the Beatles had broken up John mainly enjoyed spending time with his wife Yoko they eventually wrote their own music together. He also enjoyed having his solo contract later on as well.
Anecdotes
John always had to “make the show” by doing something crazy to attract the audience and keep them wanting more. Before the Beatles became the Beatles we know today, it was only John, Pete and Paul. John would run around on stage and yell out random things and get the crowd to join in with him and get them all hyped up. One night they were in a smaller club in Germany and John was getting all hyped up to get the crowd all hyped up, this was one of their first shows on their tour, in the middle of one of their songs john started yelling “Heil Hitler” and that got them going the crowed cheered for two encores after that show they became a hit in Germany after these shows.
Another show they played in Germany on a different tour later on, they had just finished their first set and were on break, John randomly disappeared from the group at one point and they all walked back on stage and John was still nowhere to be found. Right before they started their second set he runs out with a toilet seat around his neck the crowd went wild, John being John didnt take it off for the rest of the show he had the crowd chanting their name even though they couldn't say “ the Beatles” he had them saying “Da Peedles” and thats what they were known as in Germany after that.
Career
Johns career was all about his music from the day he started playing his first guitar and the day he sadly sang his last tune music was always his calling no matter what anyone said John always wanted to have a music career. He started young writing and playing his songs, once the Beatles started when it was John, Paul and Pete, John and Paul always wrote duets together that's where most of their songs came from. He always used his childhood memories or stories his family had
told him to write his songs. Once the Beatles that we all know today became a band (John, Paul, George and Ringo) John still wrote most of the songs with Paul there was always something new for John to write about he always had the most creative ideas. John had a very successful career even after the band broke up he went on his own and made his own music with his wife, his solo career lasted up until the day he was killed.
Reason for Fame
The Beatles was Johns main reason for fame. Even though he started out as just an average neighborhood kid playing in a band he became one of the biggest bands in the whole world. Before he was even 10 he knew he wanted to go somewhere with his music. Once the Beatles had started they were only noticeable in Europe not so much in the US yet but they became so big in England and Germany people were wanting to buy their songs little did they know these boys were only a small town band, eventually they talked to a man who owned a record store and he produces their records they flew off the shelfs! At that time though they weren't all old enough to get into clubs and such so they had only captured the younger audience which had been a hit but not long after they captured the older generation as well as the world.
Later life and Death
John didn't have much of a later life but the time that he did have he spent it with his wife and writing his own music along with writing music with his wife, he did go on to have a solo contract and produced his own songs for a long time after the Beatles broke up.
