John

  1. John was born on the 9th October 1940.
  2. His full name was John Winston Lennon.
  3. In 1969, John married performance artist Yoko Ono and changed his name to John Ono Lennon.
  4. In his work with Paul, John is credited as being a member of the greatest songwriting partnership of all time.
  5. In 1971, Richard Nixon’s government tried to get John deported from America due to his anti-Vietnam war stance.
  6. John first took LSD in 1965 when he attended a dinner party hosted by a dentist. Unbeknownst to John, the dentist spiked his drink with the drug.
  7. He experimented further with the drug however, and some of his best work was done during the year he was almost constantly under the influence of it!
  8. The other Beatles looked up to John as their leader, saying he was the smartest and had the quickest wit.
  9. John once infuriated many Christians by controversially claiming that the Beatles were ‘Bigger than Jesus’.
  10. On the 8th December 1980, John was shot dead by obsessed ‘fan’ Mark David Chapman.