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Birth
John Winston Lennon was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK, during a German air raid in World War II. John's father was a merchant seaman. He was not present at his son's birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was small. -
John Lennon’s half-sister Victoria is born
Victoria Elizabeth was born at the Salvation Army's Elmswood Infirmary, Liverpool, given up for adoption and raised in Norway. "As soon as I became aware that John was my brother I started to collect every cutting on him I could find and hid them in a drawer in my bedroom. I was terrified in case my parents found out. It would have been a betrayal of them." Ingrid Pedersen, 2000 https://www.beatlesbible.com/1945/06/19/john-lennons-half-sister-victoria-born/ -
John's Debut
John Lennon made his first public music preformance with his first band, the Quarry Men at the Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete. At this venue, he met Paul McCartney. -
Julia Lennon dies
On the evening of July 15, 1958, disaster struck. Julia Lennon attempted to cross the road back to her home where John was waiting when she was hit by a car being driven by an off-duty policeman and died instantly, aged 44. This affected John for the rest of his life. (http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/john-lennon9.htm) -
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John's Guitar:1958 Rickenbacker 325
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Beatles First Record
The Beatles were discovered by Brian Epstein in 1961 at the Cavern Club, where they were performing on a regular basis. As their new manager, Epstein secured a record contract with EMI. With a new drummer, Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), and George Martin as producer, the group released their first single, 'Love Me Do', in October. 1962. It peaked on the British charts at number 17. -
John and Cynthia Marry
23 August 1962 John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at the Mount Pleasant register office in Liverpool.
Brian Epstein was the best man, and 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. -
John and Yoko Marry
March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married in Gibraltar; for their honeymoon, they held their first "Bed-in for Peace," in the presidential suite of the Amsterdam Hilton. The peace movement was the first of several political causes the couple would take up over the years, but it was the one that generated the most publicity. -
John leaves The Beatles
John Lennon officially left the group in September but decided not to announce it while the group was re-negotiating its record contract, the opposite of what Paul McCartney did. This is one of the last photos of The Beatles taken 22 Aug 1969 -
#9 Dream
"#9 Dream" was released in the US on Walls and Bridges. John wrote and produced it with 9 session musicians. -
The Ongoing life story of John Winston Ono Lennon
John in a dark place, perhaps the lead in to his decision to return to the musical stage. -
Double Fantasy
The album Double Fantasy, jointly credited to John Lennon and Yoko Ono and named for a flower he’d seen at a botanical garden, was released on November 17, 1980. This was the final known work he created before his death and was one of the most eagerly anticipated music events of the decade. -
Two of us - the Movie
"That was a period when Paul just kept turning up at our door with a guitar." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH8IozocbeE
