John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and peace activist who rose to international prominence as the Beatles’ founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist.
The rebellious nature and acerbic wit of Lennon’s music, writing, and drawings, on film, and in interviews defined his work. His collaboration with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
Who is John Lennon’s wife Yoko Ono?
Yoko Ono Lennon is an 88-year-old Japanese artist and musician who was married to John Lennon for ten years, from 1969 to 1980.
Lennon, who was born in Liverpool, became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager. He founded The Quarrymen in 1956, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960.
He was known as “the smart Beatle” and was the group’s de facto leader at first, a position he gradually relinquished to McCartney. Lennon quickly expanded his work into other media, appearing in a number of films, including How I Won the War and authoring two collections of nonsense writings and line drawings, In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.
His songs, beginning with “All You Need Is Love,” became anthems for the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture of the 1960s. In 1969, he co-founded the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, multimedia artist Yoko Ono, staged the two-week-long anti-war protest Bed-ins for Peace, and left the Beatles to pursue a solo career.
