John Lennon

“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told …

June 1977. Lennon was in Hong Kong during a trip to Japan – and Bowie was in town on tour with his band. They met up in Hong Kong (where Bowie was touring along with Iggy Pop). While there, a tourist approached John and said, “Aren’t you John Lennon?” John …

OCTOBER 6, 2010 – A set of John Lennon’s fingerprints were seized by the FBI from a New York memorabilia dealer who intended to sell them for $100,000 (£62,621) minimum bid. The prints were taken at a New York police station in 1976 when Lennon applied for permanent US residence. The …

AUGUST 23, 1962 – John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at Liverpool’s Mount Pleasant register office with Brian Epstein as the best man. George Harrison and Paul McCartney were also in attendance. Absent was John’s aunt Mimi, who disapproved of the union, although Cynthia’s half-brother and his wife were there. As …

APRIL 13, 2007 – Julian Lennon sold a significant stake of his share of the publishing royalties in the songs his father John wrote for The Beatles to the US music publishing company Primary Wave in exchange for an undisclosed sum with an agreement that the purchasing company would market …

Very Young John Lennon Pictures discovered from 1959

JOHN LENNON and SOCCER John Lennon wasn’t a big football fan either, but it is believed he supported Liverpool as a child.  John Lennon’s 1974 album Walls and Bridges shows a picture of a football match that Lennon painted at age 11.  Almost certainly: the 1952 FA Cup final between Arsenal and Newcastle, …

These photos of John Lennon were all taken outside of the Lennon’s Dakota Apartment as he and Yoko Ono were leaving to the Record Plant Studio on December 8, 1980 between 5:00 -5:30 PM to finish mixing a song.   Sadly one of the last photos taken of Lennon alive is this famous photo of …

Like many youngsters in England during the 1940s and 1950s, young John Lennon collected stamps. But unlike most of his peers, John grew up to become a musician and songwriter who experienced extraordinary worldwide fame. When Stanley Parkes was a teenager, he gave his grade-school cousin a hardcover stamp album. …

That evening the group were due to play again, minus Colin Hanton, this time at the Grand Dance in the church hall on the other side of the road. They were due on stage at 8pm, and admission to the show, in which the Quarrymen alternated on stage with the …