JOHN LENNON

John Winston Lennon, was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, the 9th of October of 1940.

He was assesinated in New York, United States, the 8^th of December in 1980. He was a musician and a composer who achieverd fame as one of the members Of The Beatles, a british band of rock 1960s.And was reconized as one of the more acclaimed in the history of popular music. With Paul McCartney, they formed one of the most sucessful pairs composers in the tweentieh century.

He was born and he grew up in Liverpool, where beeing a teenager, he formed the band The Quarrymen, which later became in 1960 in The Beatles. When the, group started to desintegrate until their disolution at the end of that decade, Lennon started a solo career, marked by several critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band e Imagine, and songs like «Give Peace a Chance» and «Imagine».

He was a constant peace activism, with his wife Yoko Ono. In 1971 he moved to New York, because his opposition to the Vietnam War led to numerous attempts by the government to deport him.

In the United States, sales of Lennon's solo approach fourteen million units, and either as a performer, author or co-author, is responsible twenty seven number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2002, he was placed in eighth place in a BBC poll of the "100 most importants britanics", while in 2008 was described by Rolling Stone as the fifth greatest singer of all time. After his death he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Songwriters in the Hall of Fame of Rock in 1994.