John Lennon

Let it Be

His Life and Timesby

Chance Tufano

John Lennon Let it Be

Birth Name : John Winston LennonDate of Birth : October 9th, 1940Place of Birth : Oxford Street Maternity Hospital

Liverpool, England, United KingdomParents : Julia and Alfred LennonFamily : Aunt Mimi and Uncle George Smith

(Julia’s sister)

“Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys' parents ... instinctively recognized what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did ... I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home, but I really did ... There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. Those women were fantastic ... that was my first feminist education ... One happened to be my mother ... she just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four-and-a-half, I ended up living with her elder sister ... the fact that I wasn't with my parents made me see that parents are not gods”

John Lennon Let it Be

“Rock ‘n’ roll was real – everything else was unreal. To me it got through – it was the only thing to get through to me out of all the things that were happening when I was fifteen.”

1956 – John hears Elvis Presley for the first time and his addiction to rock ‘n’ roll starts.

1956 – His mother buys him his first guitar

1957 – John starts his first band called the Quarry Men

1957 – John meets Paul McCartney and Paul joins the band, July 6th , 1957

John Lennon Let it Be

John Lennon Let it Be1957 – Paul McCartney

performs with the Quarry Men for the first time

1957 – John attend Art College

1958 – John meet George Harrison and joins the Quarry Men in February

1958 – July 15th, John’s mother Julia is hit and killed by a car

John Lennon Let it Be

1958- Stuart Sutcliffe, from John’s art school, joins Quarry Men

1958 – John gets his first girlfriend, Cynthia Powell

1960 – May 10th, John changes name from Quarry Men to The Beatles

1960 – January 1961 – The Beatles go play in clubs in Hamburg, Germany.

1961 – They are all deported after separate incidents

1961 – April – Stuart quits the group

“I was raised in Liverpool, but I grew up in Hamburg.”

John Lennon Let it Be1962 – April – Stuart dies

from a brain hemorrhage

1962 – August 23rd, Cynthia becomes pregnant and her and John marry

1962 – July – Ringo Starr joins the band

1963 – April 8th, Cynthia gives birth to John’s son, Julian Lennon

John Lennon Let it Be

1963 – September 15th, Beatlemania Begins

1963 – March 22nd, 1st album – “Please

Please Me”1963 – November 22nd,

“Second Album” released

“It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up

in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?”

John Lennon Let it Be1964 – February – first

appearance in America1964 – Beatles made their

first film “A hard Day’s Night”

1965- March – The Beatles start filming their second movie “Help”

1965- Summer - John’s second book “A Spaniard in the Works” is released

1965 – October 26 – The Beatles are awarded the title of Members of the Order of the British Empire.

1966- John starts a addiction to drugs/LSD

1966- August – The Beatles decide not to tour anymore

1966 – Late – John gets a minor role in a antiwar film called “How I won the War”

John Lennon Let it Be1966 – November 9 – John

meets Yoko Ono for the first time

1967- August 27 – Johns business manager and friend Brian Epstein dies of a overdose

1968- October 19 – John is charged with possession of cannabis

1969- March 20- John and Yoko are officially married

1970- John leaves the Beatles

1970- November 25 – John returns his MBE Medal to protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria Biafra Conflict

1972- February 29 – John and Yoko’s visa’s run out leaving them 10 days left in the USA

1972- The FBI attempts to deport John

John Lennon Let it Be

1972- September - John is forced to go to Los Angeles by Yoko

1972- Late September - Yoko tells John to get in a relationship with their 22 year old assistant May Pang

1974- Thanksgiving - John does his LAST live performance

1975 – January – John goes back to Yoko Ono claiming he could not live without her

1975 – October 9- Yoko gives birth to Sean Ono Lennon

John Lennon Let it Be

1980 – December 6 – John Lennon is shot 5 times by Mark Chapman at the recording studio, The Dakota and he dies

John Lennon Let it Be

Beatles Albums:March 22, 1963 –

“Please Please Me”November 22,1963-

“With the Beatles”June 10, 1964 – “A

Hard Day’s Night”December 4,1964-

“Beatles for Sale”

August 6, 1965- “Help!”

December 3,1965- “Rubber Soul”

August 5, 1966 – “Revolver”

June 1, 1967- “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”

John Lennon Let it Be

November 27, 1967- “Magical Mystery Tour”

November 22,1968- “The White Album”

January 17, 1969- “Yellow Submarine”

September 26, 1969- “Abbey Road”

May 8, 1970 – “Let It Be