What Did John Lennon Impact On Culture

John Lennon's band, The Beatles have sold over 203,500,000 albums worldwide. The Beatles impact on music and their worldwide success makes them one of the most successful rock groups of all time. Throughout John’s life he has aimed for the good in humanity, his impact on culture has never been seen before. John had always expressed his true view and his immense push for peace and happiness has changed the world forever. John Winston Lennon is born on October 9, 1940 amidst a blitzkrieg attack on Liverpool. John’s childhood was rough due to his father’s absence and his mother’s death in 1958, which leaves John in the care of his Aunt Mimi Smith. Lennon then failed all of his GCE O-level examinations, and was accepted into the Liverpool College of …show more content…
John founded the Quarrymen 1956 and recruits his best friend Paul McCartney. He named the band after the high school they went to Quarry Bank High. The Quarrymen played at school dances, parties, cinemas, and amatuer skiffle contests. 18 year old Lennon wrote his first song called, “Hello Little Girl”, a UK top 10 hit. In 1958 a 14 year old named George Harrison joins the Quarrymen. The band created their first amatuer recording themselves in 1958 performing Buddy Holly’s “That’ll Be the Day” and “In Spite of All Danger”, a song written by McCartney and Harrison. The band slowly moved away from skiffle and more towards the new emerging genre called rock and roll, which caused many of the original band members to leave. This left the trio of Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney who preformed under stage names, including Johnny and the Moondogs and Japage 3. They returned to the name The Quarrymen in 1959 and in 1960, they changed their name to the Beatles. The Beatles reputation grew exponentially as they played in clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg. They went through a few drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Ringo