Each year fans celebrate 9th October as the birthday anniversary of John Lennon, arguably one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. John was born in 1940 and would have been 70 today had his life not been abruptly ended by a gunman just outside Lennon's Manhattan residence on 8th December 1980.
John Lennon was born is Liverpool, England in 1940. He formed his first band, a skiffle group called The Quarrymen, in 1956 with future Beatles members, George Harrison and Paul McCartney.
This post won't go into the phenomenal success of the Beatles, but the Fab Four lasted the entire decade of the 60s, and split up somewhere around 1970. John Lennon, with his second wife Yoko Ono, began a solo career and that was when he released his classic songs "Imagine" and "Give Peace a Chance". John was a fervent peace activist, and was very much against the Vietnam War.
I believe many of us Josephians of the Seventies love and can identify with the music of John Lennon, especially "Imagine". Here's a videoclip to trigger those memories ...
Thank you to John Lennon for his music. May he rest in peace
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