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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Composer (Music Score), Actor, Featured Music, Songwriter Born: October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England Death: December 8, 1980 in New York City, NY Biography:There are few details of the short life of musical genius "John Lennon" that haven't been virtually memorized by his disciples. A bare-bones precis of his existence would include his Liverpool childhood, his formation of the Quarrymen, aka the Silver Beatles aka the "Beatles" in 1961, the world-wide fame, the drug-and-religion experimentation, the controversial alignment with "Yoko Ono", the 1970 Beatles breakup, the five-year retirement (1975-80) to raise son Sean, and his senseless murder outside New York's Hotel Dakota in December of 1980.
Lennon's film career, though but one small aspect of his creative energies, is worth a brief recap. First there were the films with his fellow "Beatles": "A Hard Day's Night" (64), "Help" (65) (in which for two delicious seconds Lennon shamelessly plugs his recently published book of doggerel In His Own Write), "Yellow Submarine" (67) (that's "Lance Percival"... Full Biography
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