1940-10-09 ( 84 years old ) in Liverpool, England, UK
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release.
Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement.
As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Movies
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
2025-05-02
One to One: John & Yoko
2025-04-09
Livin’ Thing
2024-12-25
No Hamburg No Beatles
2024-12-06
Beatles '64
2024-11-28
Elton John: Never Too Late
2024-11-15
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024-11-12
Daytime Revolution
2024-10-09
Hinckley
2024-08-30
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2024-06-28
The Bannfoot Ferry
2024-06-22
The Beach Boys
2024-05-21
Paul McCartney: Got Back
2023-12-16
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
2023-12-13
The Beatles and the BBC
2023-11-04
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023-07-30
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023-06-11
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023-05-06
Louder Than Rock
2023-04-28
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023-04-13
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023-04-11
I'm Only Sleeping
2022-11-01
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022-10-27
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
2022-09-07
If These Walls Could Sing
2022-09-03
Ringo Starr: One of Them
2022-06-28
Paul McCartney at Glastonbury 2022
2022-06-25
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
2022-03-19
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022-01-30
The Beatles and India
2021-08-31
Parkinson at 50
2021-08-28
The Sparks Brothers
2021-06-18
Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
2021-05-15
The Beatles: Let It Be
2021-04-15
Under the Volcano
2021-03-20
Zappa
2020-11-27
Lennon's Last Weekend
2020-10-04
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020-09-09
Understanding McCartney
2020-06-18
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
2019-09-17
Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind
2019-08-13
The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
2019-02-05
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018-12-11
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018-11-24
The King
2018-06-22
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018-06-01
Looking for Lennon
2018-05-04
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
2018-04-30
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018-03-30
George Harrison - All Things Pass
2018-03-20
Take Your Pills
2018-03-09
John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
2017-11-28
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017-10-23
My Generation
2017-10-08
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017-06-03
Free to Rock
2017-05-01
Kyoko
2017-03-11
Året var 1967
2017-01-02
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
2016-11-16
Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
2016-02-19
The Last Lennon Interview
2015-12-08
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015-11-11
The Beatles 1
2015-11-06
The Beatles 1+
2015-11-06
Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014-01-11
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2013-11-23
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013-11-04
Population Boom
2013-09-20
Good Ol' Freda
2013-09-06
Salinger
2013-09-06
Året var 1963
2013-01-16
Genius
2012-12-28
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012-10-06
Palme
2012-09-14
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
2012-09-05
Becoming the Beatles
2012-01-01
The Winged Beetle
2012-01-01
Beatles Stories
2011-11-11
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
2011-05-02
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
2011-05-02
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
2011-05-02
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
2011-05-02
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011-01-01
The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
2010-12-15
The Day John Lennon Died
2010-12-06
Discovering Lennon
2010-10-01
LennoNYC
2010-09-25
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010-08-03
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
2010-07-19
Imagine Lennon
2010-07-01
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
2010-01-01
The Beatles: The Complete Story
2010-01-01
The Rise & Fall of WCW
2009-12-17
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
2009-09-25
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
2009-09-09
The Beatles on Record
2009-09-06
The Beatles in Japan 1966
2009-07-19
The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009-01-01
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008-09-30
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008-04-08
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
2008-02-01
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007-11-12
The Beatles: Help!
2007-10-27
I Met the Walrus
2007-06-13
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007-05-19
The Beatles Explosion
2007-01-01
The Beatles: Love
2006-11-20
To John With Love
2006-11-01
John & Yoko Bed-In
2006-11-01
Warhol and Maciunas
2006-11-01
John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
2006-10-03
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006-09-15
Doctor Who: Origins
2006-01-30
I Killed John Lennon
2005-12-08
The World's Greatest Gigs
2005-11-09
Pink Floyd London '66-'67
2005-09-13
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
2005-02-22
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
2005-02-14
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
2005-01-01
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004-12-02
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
2004-07-01
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004-01-01
Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
2003-11-25
The Beatles: Around the World
2003-11-04
Imagine Imagine
2003-09-20
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
2003-08-07
Beatles: The Journey
2003-06-17
The Beatles - Trilogy
2003-01-01
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002-11-26
Things They Said Today
2002-09-30
Naqoyqatsi
2002-09-02
Hanratty: The Whole Truth
2002-05-02
Monday Night Mayhem
2002-01-14
Elvis: King of Entertainment
2002-01-01
Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001-12-03
Wingspan
2001-05-11
The Real John Lennon
2000-09-30
John & Yoko's Year of Peace
2000-01-01
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999-12-06
Grass
1999-09-15
The Beatles: A Celebration
1999-01-01
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999-01-01
Happy Birthday to John
1997-10-09
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
1996-10-12
The Beatles Story
1996-07-01
The Beatles Unauthorized
1996-01-01
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996-01-01
The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
1994-06-23
Forrest Gump
1994-06-23
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
1993-10-05
Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
1992-11-18
The John Lennon Video Collection
1992-10-05
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
1991-11-13
Imagine: John Lennon
1988-09-30
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988-02-04
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987-10-16
The John Lennon Sketchbook
1986-04-10
Vain Glory
1986-01-25
John Lennon: Live In New York City
1986-01-24
Fun with the Fab Four
1986-01-01
British Rock: The First Wave
1985-10-10
The Real Buddy Holly Story
1985-09-12
Yoko Ono: Then and Now
1984-10-09
When the Music's Over
1983-06-14
The Compleat Beatles
1982-10-01
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982-01-01
The Killing of America
1981-09-05
This Is Elvis
1981-04-03
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979-07-25
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978-04-01
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977-08-06
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977-05-14
The Day the Music Died
1977-01-01
Fire in the Water
1977-01-01
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
1976-01-01
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
1975-04-18
Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
1974-10-03
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest
1974-04-09
Oh Yoko!
1973-01-01
Imagine
1972-12-23
The One to One Concert
1972-12-15
Eat the Document
1972-11-30
John Lennon - Imagine
1972-11-27
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972-05-11
Brazil in Cannes
1971-12-24
Sweet Toronto
1971-11-22
Up Your Legs Forever
1971-08-12
Apotheosis
1970-12-31
Let It Be
1970-05-13
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969-12-18
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
1969-12-15
The Beatles: Something
1969-10-06
The Beatles - Abbey Road
1969-09-26
Abbey Road
1969-09-26
Self-Portrait
1969-09-10
Bed Peace
1969-03-24
Beatles Electroniques
1969-01-01
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968-12-10
Film No. 5
1968-11-14
The Beatles: Revolution
1968-09-19
The Beatles: Hey Jude
1968-09-08
Yellow Submarine
1968-07-17
Two Virgins
1968-06-10
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
Magical Mystery Tour
1967-12-25
How I Won the War
1967-10-18
All You Need Is Love
1967-07-07
Our World
1967-06-25
Monument
1967-04-17
El Rey en Londres
1966-10-11
Beatles - Tokyo, Japan 66
1966-10-01
Die Beatles
1966-07-05
Reflections on Love
1966-05-01
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965-12-16
The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965-10-31
The Beatles - Live at Ed Sullivan Show
1965-09-12
Help!
1965-07-29
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965-06-26
Pop Gear
1965-05-19
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
1964-10-16
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
1964-07-17
A Hard Day's Night
1964-07-07
The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964-07-01
The Beatles in Australia
1964-06-01
Around the Beatles
1964-05-06
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
1964-02-12
The Beatles Come to Town
1963-12-22
The Mersey Sound
1963-09-10
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