John Lennon

Introduction

The British rockers had a central figure in the band "The Beatles" to the outstanding personalities of the international pop music. The group became more than a billion records sold the most successful and influential band of the 20 Century. John Lennon was the musical development of his band largely responsible, since he, together with Paul McCartney, who wrote most of the music for the "Beatles". From 1968 Lennon was increasingly alone. He wrote plays and, after the dissolution of the Beatles in 1970 by his other achievements, his commitment to the Vietnam War and his early violent death of a myth ...

It is said that John Lennon was born in Liverpool a night of German bombing in October 1940. Son of a family after working classes, he was raised by his aunt Mimi. In fact, his father left home when he was five and her mother is unable to raise him. His talent for drawing and writing is revealed early on, but John is a student of the genre rather turbulent and unruly. (Norman, 1981, 431-434)

As a teenager, while studying at art school in Liverpool, he decided to found a group to follow in the footsteps of his idols, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, the Quarrymen. In 1957, Lennon met Paul McCartney and is back in training. Gradually, the number of repeats John Quarrymen, and gathered around him the most fantastic cast as the music of the twentieth century has seen Paul McCartney So, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (who arrived last, he succeeded Pete Best).

We are in the twilight of the 50s, the Quarrymen became The Beatles. The career of Fab Four really began in 1962, the year of their first contract with Parlophone. John Lennon is the natural leader, singer and songwriter of the group alongside him who is first seen as his "brilliant second", Paul McCartney. Both, they write the most beautiful melodies, fantastic songs, the biggest success as popular music has ever known and cause a real tidal wave ever in the world: the Beatle Mania.

In 1965, the Beatles are at the peak of their glory. Lennon, who had always dreamed of being famous gets yet express more unease and torment in his songs (think "If I Fell", "I'ma loser," "Do let me down "or" Help "in particular). Much good it will do since the legendary Bob Dylan in person was impressed by the writing talents of John Lennon. The good times are not without tensions, especially with McCartney. Between the two principal authors of the Beatles, the rivalry goes, everyone wants to impose its tracks to another. This confrontation ultimately generate the first disc with two sides A history, with one side "We Can Work It Out" (McCartney) and another "Day Tripper" (Lennon) as it no jealous. Beyond this rivalry, which is also a means of mutual emulation for the duo at the head of the Beatles, Lennon lived a life of bourgeois property row with his wife Cynthia Powell and her ...