The Best Quotes of John Lennon_The Art of Thinking

The Best Quotes of John Lennon_The Art of Thinking

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide prominence as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts. in the history of popular music. Together with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon was involved as a teenager in a skiffle madness; his first band, The Quarrymen, developed into The Beatles in 1960. When the group disbanded towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that resulted in the critically acclaimed John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine albums, and iconic songs such as as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon left the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but reappeared in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was killed by Mark Chapman three weeks after his release.

Lennon expressed his rebellious nature and sharp wit in his music, writing, drawings, in films, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political activism and peacemaking. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by the Richard Nixon administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as the national anthem by the anti-war movement.

In 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million units, and as a writer, co-writer or performer, he was responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll of the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.