John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

The future of The Beatles was threatened when in 1966 member John Lennon said, “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” This controversial remark was plastered across all mass media and set off “protests, death threats and the end to the Beatles’ touring career” (Rolling Stone 2016). Datebook, an American teen magazine, reprinted Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus now” remark and it led to a “Beatle boycott.” Families and members of the Christian church burned Beatles records and put on protests to…

The name’s Hades. I’m sure you’ve all heard about the horrible Hades who nearly destroyed your tiny land by letting angry gods run rampage. No? I’m the one with the fiery blue hair, shark-like teeth, and some would say “sickly yellow eye.” I’m the villain in the movie Hercules. Yep, there ya go! That’s me. Look, I know people don’t think I’m the most charming of fellas. My patience has always run as thin as a strand of hair. I’ll hear people blabbing above me on the streets how awful it was…

One way that music changed was through bands and musicians that helped push the new sound of music forward. It appealed greatly to the younger generation who enjoyed the different sound. The Beatles were one of the first, and most important, bands to change the way music sounds all the way to present day. The Beatles were made up of mainly four people: George Harrison (1940-2001), who was the guitar player, Ringo Starr (1940), who was the drummer, John Lennon (1940-1980), who was the singer, and…

was John Lennon who was an inspiration but was murdered by a mentally insane person. John Lennon was and still is an inspiration. Him and the Beatles had toured the world to spread the influence of their music. Later on when they split up, John still continued to make influential music and say inspirational quotes such as “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are. You are what you are!” (John Lennon Quotes). Later in his life he even lead a peace sitting with his wife, Yoko Ono. John was…

Ringo Starr is so much more than the heart of one of the greatest bands of all time. He is a lifetime musician, a role model for generations of musicians and a true lover of his profession. Ringo Starr, musician, songwriter, singer, and actor; who gained global fame as the drummer for the Beatles, has changed the music industry in an unfathomable amount of ways. Starr was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to music. He was knighted in an ordination ceremony at…

miracle would grow up to be, Beatle front man and advocator of world peace, John Winston Lennon . John aside from making world changing music, made world changing decisions that impacted such areas as the peace movement and freedom to free speech. Although he only lived for 40 years, those 40 years impacted history in a huge way, changing the ways people all over the world thought and talked about peace and environmental…

Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the Magical Mystery Tour album, and The White album. These songs were more about giving the world a message about peace and loving one another and also about protesting the Vietnamese war that is expressed in the song “Revolution.” John Lennon met Yoko Ono in 1966 and decided he was going to leave his wife Cynthia and son Julian for Yoko. The first album of the psychedelic era was Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a step in a different…

that they are plagued with the same feelings, temptations, and flaws that we all have. A group that has almost surpassed fame is The Beatles. They are a band known world-wide for the music they created in the 1960’s and became an icon for an entire music genre as well as for that decade. As they gained immense fame as one of the greatest bands of all time, it was easy to forget they are people too. They may have been musicians, but this did not stop them from expressing themselves, and showing…

On December 8, 1980 John Lennon was shot directly across from Strawberry Fields, by the Dakota building where he and his wife lived. In John Lennon 's memory, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife decided to create a memorial in his honor. She wanted to commemorate John Lennon as a rock legend and a peace activist, so Ono created the John Lennon memorial in Strawberry Fields, Central park. John Lennon’s memorial is an effective memorial because of its background, location, design, my individual experience,…

Alyssa Bartel Dr. Byrd English Composition II 1 December, 2016 Imagine John Lennon, the author of Imagine, dedicated most of his time on Earth campaigning as a political activist and song writer. Among Lennon’s projects, his most influential was his campaigning for world peace. In fact, most of Lennon’s most famous works are along the theme of world peace and trying to convince the general public to accept one another in spite of any differences. “Imagining gives people the ability to…