John lennon

             John Winston Lennon entered the music scene with a bang on October 9th, 1940, a night when Liverpool suffered a horrific Nazi air raid. He went on to become one of the best songwriters and musicians of all time. .
             John had an extremely unusual childhood for that time. His father, Alfred Lennon, a sailor, saw very little of his son until 1946. That year he took John on holiday and then unknown to his mother tried to smuggle him to New Zealand. Luckily, his mother Julia rescued John. John's relationship with his mum was more of a friend than mother. He was almost entirely raised by his aunt and uncle, Mary and George. George and John were very close during his childhood, until one day George died unexpectedly. He spent more and more time with his mother after the death. .
             John never really had any interest in music until 1956 when he heard Elvis Presley sing "Heartbreak Hotel." From then on John could not think of anything else but music. His mother bought him a used guitar for ten English pounds. He took some lessons but he didn't learn anything. His mother played the banjo and taught him some chords. They had just started to develop some type of relationship when she tragically died in a motor accident. John was only sixteen.
             He kept on with his guitar and started a band called the Quarry Men. One day he met Paul McCartney, then fifteen at the St. Peter's Church, where they were to play a gig. Two weeks later, Paul became a member of the Quarry Men. The band was to switch their name several times before they became The Beatles.
             The band kept playing for the next thirteen years. Some of the famous songs sung and written by Lennon and Paul are, Imagine, Hard Days Night, Yellow Submarine, Help and Penny Lane. They had written more than ninety songs together and sold more than two hundred million copies, worth almost fifty-six million U.S dollars. The Beatles set a world record in 1967 when they received a US gold Disc for selling a million in sales of the album "Strawberry Fields Forever".