What do you know about John Lennon

History of the The Beatles

John Lennon was great rock music.he was a member of The Beatles who was born in Liverpool in 1940 and shot dead by Mark Chapman, a

fanatical Beatles fan,in New York in 1980

John Lennon(1940 – 1980)

1940

October 9 John Winston Lennon Was

Was born in Liverpool

1942

April 4 John’s father left home

1955

June 15 John met Paul McCartney

1957

September 10 John lennon became a student at

Liverpool Art College

July 15 Julia Lennon.John’s Mother was knocked down by

Car and died.

December John met Cynthia Powell,his future wife.

at Liverpool Art College

1961

Martch 21 The Beatles played at the Cavern Club,

Liverpool,for the first time

October 9 John’s Twenty-first birthday

1962

August 23 John got merried to Cynthia Powel at

Liverpool Registry Office Paul McCartney was the best man

Octiber 5 The Beatles first record “ Live Me Do “ was released

1963

Martch 2 the Beatles second record.’Please Please Me’ became

Number one in the British record charts.

April 8 John and Cynthia’s son,John Charles Julia Lennon,was

Born

September 7 ‘She Love You’ became number one in Britain and

Stayed there for seven week

October 11 ‘She Love You’became the Beatles first gold record, With Sales of over one million copies.

1964

February 1’ I want to Hold Your Hand’ reached number one in America

March 23 John’s first book.’In His Own Write’was published

July 6 ‘A hard Days’s Night ‘,the Beatles first Film,opened in london

1965

August 15 The Beatles gave the largest outdoor concert ever at shea Stadium in New York.there were

56,000 spectators

1966

August 29 the Beatles gave their last public performance at Candlestick In San Fransisco.

November 9 John met Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery,London

1967

June 1, The LP’ Sergeant Perper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ was released in Britain

1968

November 8

John and Cynthia got divorced

1969

March 20 John and Yoko got mar ried in Gibraltar

1970

April 10, Paul McCartney announced that he had left The Beatles

1971

August John and Yoko left England for America

Octber John solo LP’ Imagine’ was released

1974

October 9 Sean Ono Lennon,John and Yoko only child,was born in New York

1980

August John started making record again After a five years gap

November 17 ‘Double Fantasi’,an LP by John and Yoko,was released

December 8 John Lennon was shot dead by mark Chapman,a Beatles fan in New York

The Beatles to go bang

All the members of the Beatles were born in Liverpool,a big city in the nort of England.Ringo Starr was born on 7^th july 1940.Paul McCartney was born on 18^th June 1942.John Lennon was born on 9^th October 1940.George Harrison was born 25^th February 1943.They all went to school in Liverpool and as boys,they listened to and like the same kind of music.

They met each other in club and shared a comman interest in rock’nroll.listead of just listening they soon decided to play their favourite kind of music themselves.At first they practiced together and played in local clubs whenever they could.

It was difficult to get jobs playing their kind of music in clubs in Liverpool,so the beatles accepted work in Harmburg,in Germany they went there in 1960 and stayed for more than year.In Harmburg they worked very hard,playing in clubs every night of the week,when they returned to Liverpool in 1962,they were already very skillful musicians. In those to write good songs and play them well.

Back in Liverpool,they played a club called ‘ The Cavern’ . Soon, young people in the city began talking about the Beatles.More and More of these teenagers when they Played at the Cavern.In Liverpool itself,they were already famous.

Then one day,a girl went into a big music shop in Liverpool Sh e asked the Manager if he had record by agroup called ‘ The Beatles’ The Manager told her that the beatles had never made record.During the next few weeks many more people came into the shop to ask for Beatles record.Each time the manager had to tell them the same things,The Beatles had not made a record.

The Manager of the music shop was called Brian Epstein.Because so many people asked for a record by the Beatles.Epstein decided to go and listen to the group himself.When small club.But soon,like everybody else in the Cavern,he began to enjoy himself

Brian Epstein enjoyed himself so much that the spoke to the Beatles when they had finished playing.He talk to them for a long time and finally persuaded them to let him become their manager.he knew a lot about the music industry and so would be able to help them in the career

Epstein wrote to all the big record companies and sent them tapes of the Beatles singing and playing . The record companies did not really like the Beatles music. At first ,nobody wanted to give them the chance to make record.

But in his office in London,one important man listened again and again to the tapes.He felt sure that the Beatles would be successful.This man’s name was George Martin,and he persuaded his record company to give the Beatles chance to make a record.that was just the beginning.