12 Facts You Don’t Know About John Lennon

1- Lennon was a big believer in things that went bump in the night. He believed in the paranormal so much that he kept a psychic on staff. He and Yoko Ono would regularly consult the psychic regarding important business deals. John Lennon was himself interested in psychic things and on many occasions attended seances. It is believed that he had a premonition that he would be shot. He even stated that his fear of murder caused the Beatles to break up. “We were not bored,” he said “and certainly did not run out of songs. I was paranoid about somebody trying to bump us off.” But John Lennon also believed in an afterlife. “I am an optimist about eternity. I believe in life after death. I believe that death is not an end but a beginning.” 2 -John Lennon was a big fan of the B-52s. Lennon heard “Rock Lobster” at a disco bar in Bermuda in 1979 and fell in love with their self-titled debut album calling it his favorite album of all time shortly before his death. John Lennon heard this song playing in a Bermuda disco in 1979. It reminded him of Yoko Ono's music so much that it inspired him to return to the recording studio after a 5 year retirement. The B52s' guitarist Keith Strickland recalled to Q magazine that at the end of the song, "Cindy does this scream that was inspired by Yoko Ono. John heard it in some club in the Bahamas, and the story goes that he calls up Yoko and says, Get the axe out – they're ready for us again! Yoko has said that she and John were listening to us in the weeks before he died." 3- The Crickets are the reason The Beatles are a thing. The first recording The Beatles ever made was on Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be The Day”. Buddy Holly’s band was the Crickets and was influential in The Beatles sound. 4-His mom died tragically when he was 18. An off-duty police officer crashed into the car Lennon’s mother was travelling in fatally wounding her. Lennon would say that this was the most traumatic moment of his life. Julia visited Mimi's house nearly every day, where they would chat over tea and cakes in the morning room or stand in the garden when it was warm. On the evening of 15 July 1958, Nigel Walley went to visit Lennon and found Julia and Mimi talking by the front gate. Lennon was not there, as he was at the Blomfield Road house. Walley accompanied Julia to the bus stop further north along Menlove Avenue, with her telling jokes along the way. At about 9:30, Walley left her to walk up Vale Road and she crossed Menlove Avenue to the central reservation between two traffic lanes, which was lined with hedges that covered disused tram tracks. Five seconds later, Walley heard "a loud thud", and turned to see her body "flying through the air"—which landed about 100 feet (30 m) from where she had been hit. He ran back to get Mimi and they waited for the ambulance, with Mimi crying hysterically Julia was struck and killed by a Standard Vanguard car, driven by an off-duty constable, PC Eric Clague, who was a learner-driver. 5-It wasn’t a good idea to call John Lennon gay. DJ Bob Wooler was close friends with the band and made a crack about a rumored sexual experience between Lennon and Brian Epstein during McCartney’s 21st birthday. This sent Lennon into a rage and led him to beat Wooler within an inch of his life. Wooler was a very close friend of the Beatles and had introduced them on stage some 300 times. This incident happened at Paul’s 21st birthday party, on June 18, 1963. At the party, Wooler was joking around with John and said (with heavy gay intimations): “Come on John, what really happened with you and Brian? Everybody knows anyway, so tell us.” John had been heavily drinking that night and Lennon was a notorious “bad drunk”. In a blind rage, John proceeded to beat the stuffing out of a very surprised Bob Wooler, literally kicking him repeatedly in the ribs as he lay on the ground in a bloody heap. According to John, the only reason he actually stopped the savage beating was because, “I realized I was actually going to kill him… I just saw it like a screen. If I hit him once more, that’s really going to be it. I really got shocked and for the first time thought: ‘I can kill this guy.'” http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5068wl 6- Dylan led the choir boy astray. Bob Dylan was the gateway to The Beatles drug obsession. He introduced the band to marijuana, which led to them experiment with LSD. 7- He was dyslexic and blind. It’s strange to think that such a prominent song writer was dyslexic, but he was. Also, without his iconic spectacles he was considered legally blind. 8- He had a visit from an extraterrestrial. In August 1974, the Beatle claims to have witnessed a UFO in Manhattan. You may think the rocker was high on LSD at the time but there was a number of calls from others that day who witnessed the same strange sight. CONTINUE TO NEXT PAGE [wp_ad_camp_1] 9. He was a pretty good kid growing up. Lennon was literally a choir boy as he grew up singing at St. Peter’s Church. 10. Driving wasn’t his thing. The musician didn’t get his license until 24 and even then he probably should have stayed away from the driver’s seat. Four years after he got his license, he wrecked his Aston Martin while in Scotland and needed 17 stitches. 11. It is not known where he was laid to rest. Lennon was cremated after death and it is not known where his ashes were scattered, which may have been a ploy to stop crazed fans disturbing him in death as they had in life. 1. Lennon was interested in writing children’s books. Lennon was an avid writer of stories and poetry and had three of his books published. He had stated on several occasions that he was interested in writing a children’s book after he had retired from music.