John Lennon
Biography
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame 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. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on 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.
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Movies (45)
Look At Me
Music (Sound)
2025
A Love Letter to the Beatles
as Himself (Archival)
2025
As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
2025
Jonathan Henry Bowman - Unscripted
Music (Sound)
2025
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
as Self (archive footage)
2025
TWST / Things We Said Today
as Self (archive footage)
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025
The Beatles
as Self (archive footage)
2025
on a windy day
Music (Sound)
2025
No Hamburg, No Beatles
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2024
Beatles '64
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Elton John: Never Too Late
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Man.
Music (Sound)
2024
Daytime Revolution
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Paul McCartney: Got Back - Live at River Plate Stadium
as Self (archive footage)
2024
An Ordered Hit of a Man (In Sequence)
Music (Sound)
2024
Hinckley
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Beatles LOVE
Music (Sound)
2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
as Self (archive footage)
2024
The Beach Boys
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Paul McCartney: Got Back
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Beatles and the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Louder Than Rock
as Self (archive footage)
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
as Self (archive voice)
2023
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
as Self (archive footage)
2022
How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
2022
The Beatles and India
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Parkinson at 50
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
2021
Under the Volcano
as Self (archive footage)
2021
