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John Lennon: Overview

John Lennon: John Winston Lennon was born in 1940, his middle name tribute to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The former who was shot dead 40 years later was John Ono Lennon, a tribute to second wife Yoko Ono.

The early Beatles were Johnny (Lennon) and The Moondogs, then Long John And The Silver Beetles (sic). The Long John tag, recalling Long John Silver, was more legitimately used by the tall Long John Baldry. Lennon rejected being Johnny Silver on their first tour to fit The Silver Beetles. While others in the Fab Four used pseudonyms more readily, he disliked such "pretence".

John Lennon excluded from this dislike, jokes like Dr Winston O'Boogie (with ); The Walrus and The Dreamweaver (sundry song references). His wordplay, evident in his books as well as the naming of , showed in naming of Cyrkle and Grapefruit. Related: Billy J. Kramer, The Dakotas, Poco.

John Lennon's fun-loving working-class parents married briefly and late and declined to raise their quick, sensitive, gifted son. Separated traumatically from each of them by age five, he was raised strictly (in Woolton, a Liverpool suburb) by his maternal aunt, Mimi Smith, whose husband died during John Lennon's adolescence, as did his biological mother, who had taught him to play the banjo. Such circumstances were not uncommon in the wake of World War II, but in John Lennon they generated anger that he sublimated with brilliance and difficulty and an intense need for human connection. At age 21 he married the supportive, traditional Cynthia Powell, whom he divorced in 1968. At age 28 he married the independent, unconventional Yoko Ono. And much earlier, at age 16, he founded a skiffle band that evolved into the Beatles, the most important musical group of the second half of the 20th century.

were essentially a joint venture between practical pop adept Paul McCartney and alienated rock-and-roll rebel John Lennon, but, as a disruptive cultural force, they always bore John Lennon's stamp. Musically, just two of countless examples are the forthright candour his vocal added to Smokey Robinson's vulnerable "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" in 1964 and the "I used to be cruel to my woman" bridge he added to McCartney's positive-thinking "Getting Better" in 1967. Culturally too, John Lennon assumed the role of the candid provocateur. All four Beatles were witty, all four irreverent. But only John Lennon would have observed "We're more popular than Jesus now" or boiled the story of youth culture down to "America had teenagers and everywhere else just had people."

John Lennon's genius encompassed writing and the visual arts, the only field in which he received formal training. His natural gifts in both were considerable, but in the end he proved a minor humorist and a casual if indelible cartoonist. In music, he had less inborn facility, though his paternal grandfather worked for years as a blackface minstrel. But music was where he put his substance. John Lennon was one of the great rock rhythm guitarists, his signature a nervous rest-one-two-and-rest that complicated his foursquare attack, and his strong, nasal singing overshadowed McCartney's more physically capable rocking and crooning. Declarative where the rockabilly singers he admired were frantic, almost a blues shouter in spirit if not in timbre, John Lennon often undercut the masculinity of this approach with a canny, playful high voice deployed to humorous and even campy effect.

Such layered, contradictory meanings typified the Beatles, part of whose power lay in the multiplicity and collectivity they projected. But as John Lennon began to withdraw from the Beatles, a process accelerated as of 1968 by his relationship with Ono, his declarative side took over. This dovetailed with the artistic ideas of Ono, a well-born Japanese avant-gardist seven years his senior. John Lennon was first fascinated and then influenced by her terse, sometimes paradoxical directives, such as: "Count all the words in the book instead of reading them" ("Number Piece 1," from the book Grapefruit [1964]). Much of the music John Lennon recorded after 1968—from "Yer Blues" and "I'm So Tired" on (1968) through the solo debut Plastic Ono Band (1970) through his half of Double Fantasy (1980)—reflects Ono's belief in art without artifice. Whether or not they actually eschewed artifice, that was one impression they strove to create.

Until Double Fantasy, most of the films and recordings John Lennon created with Ono were of limited public usefulness. But the stark Plastic Ono Band is generally considered a masterpiece, and the more conventional John Lennon album that followed, Imagine (1971), is a major work keynoted by its beloved title track, a hymn of hope whose concept he attributed to Ono. Like the earlier "Give Peace a Chance," "Imagine" is living proof of the political orientation that dominated John Lennon's public life with Ono, which came to a head in 1972 with the failed agitprop album Some Time in New York City and the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern by incumbent Pres. Richard Nixon, whose administration was attempting to deport John Lennon, a vocal and adamant opponent of the Vietnam War.

John Lennon's most enduring political commitment was to feminism. When he and Ono separated in the fall of 1973, he spent a "lost weekend" of more than a year drinking and making highly uneven music in Los Angeles. When the couple reunited, they soon conceived a son, Sean, born on John Lennon's birthday in 1975. John Lennon retreated from music and became a reclusive househusband, leaving his business affairs to Ono. The details of this very private period are unclear, although it is unlikely that the couple's domestic arrangements were as idyllic as they pretended. Nevertheless, as a piece of art, their marriage projected as powerful an image as their activism had. It ended as fact when John Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan, Mark David Chapman, in front of his Manhattan apartment building on December 8, 1980. But it continues as part of John Lennon's legend, which remains undiminished.

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