John Lennon Anthology

After reading Garry Berman’s book “We’re Going to See The Beatles!” and watching Steven Spielberg’s ‘spoof’ film, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”, these two sources aren’t really all that far apart. While both Berman’s novel and Spielberg’s film have some differences, the similarities really outweigh the differences in comparison. In Spielberg’s film, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”, it’s shown that many girls found themselves so deep into the hold that Beatlemania had on them, many hardly realized what…

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…

1960’s Poster Project – Yoko Ono and John Lennon Stage “Bed-In” for Peace In 1969, during the Vietnam War, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, staged long Bed-Ins for Peace in Amsterdam and Montreal. These events were conducted as non-violent protests against war, promoting peace. American people had begun a movement against the involvement of the United States in 1964, and the movement grew in years to come, especially with the help of influential figures like Lennon and Ono. American…

In 1967, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and legendary guitarist player Peter Green formed the first Fleetwood Mac. It was numerous years before they had the awareness that Christine Perfect, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham even existed. The original band had a successful string of number one singles in Europe. Including a Peter Green classic made famous in the US by Carlos Santana, Black Magic Woman. But through the years, the band had a series of guitarist front men and back up singers that…

John Lennon had said in the 1960s, “It matters not who you love, where you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.” This quote explains the challenges, the failures, and struggles, one of the major bands, the Beatles have encountered during the 1960s. When two of the Beatles were younger, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, they would sometimes leave school to practice together. McCartney's younger schoolmate George Harrison was soon recruited as another guitarist, as was Lennon's art…

John Lennon is an inspirational leader of the Beatles, anti-war activist, father, poet, singer/ songwriter, and illustrator of the 1960’s. He leaded peace through catchy tunes and meaningful lyrics that supported a non- violent and peaceful country. Although there was a very wide variety of great leaders that did a very important part in world history, I used a very strict criteria of how to choose a unique leader that people can learn from and admire. My criteria was: who is a person who has…

The Beatles mostly sang about peace and love, experimenting with different concepts on the subject and various instruments. George Harrison introduced the sitar in some of their later albums. Originally, they started as a simple pop band and eventually grew and developed into a rock and roll band. Most of their fan base was composed of teenage girls, while the Rolling Stones attracted every one of every age. They would have to think of creative and clever ways to sneak lyrics about sex and drugs…

My parents emigrated to this country thirty-four years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the…

Series of Reconstruction Life is a series of reconstruction. People will face many hardships in their life - hardships that will break them down and bring them to the abyss of despair. Despite this cruel reality, there is beauty, for these events present the opportunity for growth: the chance to put themselves back together and learn from the experience. Not everyone will be able to conquer these challenges, however, for countless are maimed from the adversities of life and left…

of Beatles albums sold today. Together John Lennon and Paul McCartney co-wrote 180 out of the roughly 245 Beatles songs while the remaining songs were written with or by other band mates. The Lennon McCartney songwriting duo is as historical in the field of music as any. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were only together as a band for seven years, but they impacted the world like no other. Equally gifted musicians, John Lennon and Paul McCartney are regarded as the…