I Am John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

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Hook "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." I am John Winston Lennon. Background info I was born in Liverpool, England on October 9, 1940. My parents were Julia Stanley and Alfred Lennon. My parents divorced before I was 2 and I only saw my dad twice in the next 20 years. When I was only 5 went to live with his mother's sister, "Aunt Mimi". I attended Liverpool's Dovedale Primary school and Quarry Bank High School. Event #1 I got my first guitar through a mail order ad when I was 16. Then just a year later Paul McCartney noticed one of my performances at them Woolton Parish Church and invited me to his group, "The Quarrymen." Event #2 In 1958 George Harrison is introduced to our group and the Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, West Germany, with Stu Sutcliffe on bass and …show more content…
Later a divorce was granted between me and Cynthia. Event #6 In 1969 I got married to Yoko Ono on the island of Gibraltar. In the same year my song, "Give Peace a Chance," only reaches #14 on the charts which suggests that it probably won't be a long lasting peace anthem. Event #7 In 1970 my debut album as a solo artist came out, it was called "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band". It is one of my most well known albums. Event #8 In 1972 my non immigrant visa expired which started the deportation process in which I got into a 4 year battle with the U.S federal government. In a year I move into an apartment in the Dakota in New York with Yoko. Event #9 In 1974 I made my last public performance at the Madison Square Garden, I got to play 3 songs with Elton John. A year after my second son was born on my 35th birthday. Event #10 In 1980 I went on a cruise to Bermuda to try and restart my music making career. After the cruise I released a new single, "(Just Like) Starting Over" after five years of not releasing anything. Death/and after On December 8, 1980 I was shot 7 times outside my house at the Dakota by Mark David

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