JOHN LENNON

John Winston Ono Lennon (born only John Winston Lennon), MBE (Liverpool, United Kingdom, October 9, 1940 - New York, United States, December 8, 1980), was a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer who rose to fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, a British rock band active during the 1960s, and recognized as the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed in the history of popular music. Along with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful pairs of composers of the twentieth century.

He was born and raised in Liverpool, where as a teenager he became familiar with the skiffle musical genre, forming the band The Quarrymen, which would later become The Beatles in 1960. When the group began to disintegrate until its dissolution at the end of that decade, Lennon began a solo career, marked by several critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs like "Give Peace a Chance. »E« Imagine ».

After his self-imposed "retirement" from the music industry in 1975 to devote time to his family, Lennon returned to it in 1980 with a comeback album, Double Fantasy. Lennon was killed three weeks after that launch.

In the United States, Lennon's sales as a soloist are close to fourteen million units, and whether as an interpreter, author or co-author, he is responsible for twenty-seven singles number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2002, he was placed on the eighth place in a BBC survey of the "100 most important Britons", while in 2008 he was rated by Rolling Stone magazine as the fifth best singer of all time. After his death he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Composers in 1987 and in the Hall of Fame of Rock in 1994.