John lennon
-
Upload
luizc97 -
Category
News & Politics
-
view
146 -
download
6
description
Transcript of John lennon
![Page 1: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
John Lennon
![Page 2: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Born during the Second World War
• Born to Julia Lennon in 1940. His father was a sailor and away at sea.
• He went to live with his Auntie Mimi aged 5 as it was decided that she and her husband would be better able to provide for him.
![Page 3: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Schooling
• John was not very academic at school although he was very good at art.
• His Mum bought him a guitar when he was 15 years old.
• He formed several bands, the 1st in 1956 called The Quarrymen.
• He soon invited Paul McCartney to join.
![Page 4: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
By the1960s after playing in Germany to refine their skills…
• The name was changed to The Beatles
• The 4 members were John, Paul, George and Ringo
• In 1962 they released
a single ‘Love me do’ which went to No.1
![Page 5: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Beatlemania followed…
• The album ‘Please, Please Me’ went straight to number one as did all the records they released at this time.
• Their sound was young and energetic
• They were mobbed here and then in America.
![Page 6: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
By 1966..
• The songs were mostly written by John Lennon and Paul Mcartney
• The Beatles were exhausted by the attention
• They stopped touring and recorded their songs, using rare instruments and unusual techniques to create a unique sound.
![Page 7: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
They made successful films as well as recording innovative music.
![Page 8: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
John Lennon
• He had married a fellow art student , in 1962, before the Beatles were famous and had a son Julian.
• In 1967 He went to an art exhibition in London by Yoko Ono and fell in love.
• He divorced Cynthia, and married Yoko in 1969
![Page 9: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
John and Yoko became involved in the Peace movement
• During the late sixties the Hippy Movement evolved, many young people became interested in alternative life styles.
• The Beatles were part of this, they grew their hair, went on trips to India and talked about world issues.
![Page 10: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The Beatles broke up…
• They last played live in 1969, on top of a building in London.
• They had all begun to want to do different things.
• John and Yoko began to record their own records, they were very unusual.
![Page 11: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
The Beatles had been awarded MBEs in 1965
• John returned his to The Queen in 1968 in protest of the support given to the USA in the Vietnam War and its policies in Africa.
![Page 12: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
John and Yoko became involved in world politics using their fame to
gain publicity
• 1969 John and Yoko stayed in bed for a week, invited the World’s press and come and recorded ‘Give Peace a Chance’.
![Page 13: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
John Lennon now lived in America
• John recorded his most famous song in 1971 ‘Imagine’. It was voted Song of the Millennium nearly 30 years later.
• After a temporary spilt from Yoko, they had a son in 1975.
![Page 14: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
John became a house husband
• Yoko went out to work, managing the money that John had made as part of The Beatles.
• He loved being at home with his baby son, as he had missed out on all that with Julian.
![Page 15: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
By 1980…
• John had begun to record music again.
• He wrote of his happiness and love for Yoko.
• On December 8th 1980 a crazed fan shot John dead outside his flat in New York.
![Page 16: John lennon](https://reader033.fdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022061223/54c4883f4a7959af2d8b4589/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
The Legacy of John Lennon
• A wonderful musical partnership with Paul McCartney in The Beatles which was the sound track of The Sixties.
• A wide body of music using different styles and instruments.
• He brought a high profile to the peace / anti-war movement involving young people in Politics.