UNIVERSIDAD DANIEL ALCIDES

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English notebook

Full Name: Baldeon Ponce Kevin

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Ciclo: IV

TURNO: maana

School year : 2016

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon was

born in Liverpool, October 9, 1940 died in New York,
December 8, 1980) was a British multi-instrumentalist
musician and composer who rose to fame as one of the
founding members of the Beatles, recognized as the most
commercially successful and critically acclaimed band in
the history of popular music. Along with Paul McCartney, he
formed one of the couples most successful composers of
the twentieth century. Born and raised in Liverpool, where a
teenager was immersed in the British skiffle boom, forming
the band The Quarrymen, which later in 1960 became The
Beatles. When the group disbanded at the end of that
decade, Lennon began a solo career, marked by several
acclaimed albums by critics, including John Lennon / Plastic
Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give
Peace a Chance" and "Imagine ". After marrying Yoko Ono in
1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon
withdrew from the music scene in 1975 to raise her young
son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new
album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after
its release. He showed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in
his music, cinema, literature and drawing, as well as in their
statements in press conferences and interviews. In addition,
the controversy pursued because of their constant peace
activism next to Ono. In 1971 he moved to Manhattan,
where his opposition to the Vietnam War led to numerous
attempts by the government of Richard Nixon to deport;
while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war
and counterculture movement. Until 2012, the United
States sales Lennon solo exceeded fourteen million units,
either as a performer, author or co-author, is responsible for
twenty five number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. In
2002, he was placed in the eighth in a BBC poll on the "100
best British", while in 2008 was described by Rolling Stone
magazine as the fifth greatest singer of all time. After his
death he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.