John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool, England, October 9, 1940 and died in New York City, United States, December 8, 1980 at the age of 40 years. He is best known as a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, writer, and political activist known throughout the world as the leader of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a partnership songwriter's most successful and unsuccessful to date. Lennon and McCartney with his cynicism with optimism complement each other very well.
For an ordinary man, John Lennon is an awesome figure of a man in the 1960's. Even today, more than three decades after his death, and in a world full of people who still idolize him, might be surprised by some unknown facts about the iconic rock this one. Here are the facts that may surprise you about the life of John Lennon.
- John does not like his own voice. According to George Martin, a record producer in almost every album of The Beatles, John was never satisfied with the sound of the tape. Martin said that Lennon did not like his own voice and was always asking to add a lot of effects to change the vocal.
- John never been suspended from school because of pornography. John never been called to the principal's office and the principal took some porn magazines that John hid in his room. When the principal asked for some explanation from him, John asked if he could have it back.
- John was the only Beatle who still eat meat. The Beatles are the center of the trend in more than just music. Most philosophies of them like George and Ringo is to become vegetarian. Paul also became a vegetarian after she marketed frozen vegetarian dinner. At the end of the era of The Beatles, John was the only member of the group who still eat meat.
- John's first musical instrument that is a harmonica which was a gift from her aunt. Later, the Crown Prince Rock is taking a more appropriate instrument for himself that banjo.
- John always excel in the game of Monopoly. According to those who knew him, John always win in the game of Monopoly and usually he tries to take the Boardwalk and Park Place first.
- John had almost killed the man who called him as a homosexual. John Lennon really enjoyed the reputation as people who care about peace. But at a birthday party Paul 21st, John loggerheads with Bob Wooler, a DJ who is very close to the band. Wooler teased John about his relationship with Brian Epstein, the manager of The Beatles suspected as a homosexual. At that time, Lennon Wooler dropped to the ground and kicked him in the ribs until Wooler had to be rushed to the hospital.
- John was a huge fan of B-52's. Upon hearing the name of the band at a club in 1979, John retiring moved to record what would become the album Double Fantasy, performed by "Scream" an appreciation of the B-52's for Yoko Ono. John plays the song "Rock Lobster" continuously during the recording sessions for Double Fantasy.
- John is not only blind without his glasses, but in the final years of his life, he found out that he was also dyslexic.
- John Lennon circulated last photo together with Mark David Chapman, the man who killed to his right to get his autograph.
- In an attempt to avoid the cult style of Jim Morrison around John, Yoko Ono never reveal the final location where John was cremated even though there is a possibility that Ono has always carrying the ashes of John wherever he goes.
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