Moving to New York City in 1971, his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a three-year deportation attempt by the Nixon administration. In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, the multimedia artist Yoko Ono, held the two-week-long anti-war demonstration Bed-ins for Peace, and left the Beatles to embark on a solo career.īetween 19, Lennon and Ono collaborated on many works, including a trilogy of avant-garde albums, several more films, his solo debut John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, and the international top-10 singles " Give Peace a Chance", " Instant Karma!", " Imagine", and " Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". Starting with " All You Need Is Love", his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture of the 1960s. Lennon soon expanded his work into other media by participating in numerous films, including How I Won the War, and authoring In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, both collections of nonsense writings and line drawings. Through his songwriting in the Beatles, Lennon embraced a myriad of musical influences, initially writing and co-writing rock and pop-oriented hit songs in the band's early years, then later incorporating experimental elements into his compositions in the latter half of the Beatles' career as his songs became known for their increasing innovation. Sometimes called "the smart Beatle", Lennon initially was the group's de facto leader, a role he gradually ceded to McCartney. In 1956, he formed The Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. īorn in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager.
His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. Lennon's work included music, writing, drawings, and film. John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles.
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