John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England. In the mid-1950s he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles. After some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg...See full bio »
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Episode #4.19
(2008)
(writer: "Gimme Some Truth" - uncredited)
2012Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away
(writer: "Blackbird", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", "Get Back", "All You Need is Love")
2012/IFlight
(writer: "With a Little Help From My Friends")
2009The Beatles: Rock Band
(Video Game)
(lyrics: "A Day in the Life", "A Hard Day's Night", "Abbey Road Medley", "All You Need is Love", "And Your Bird Can Sing", "Back in the U.S.S.R.", "Because", "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite", "Birthday", "Boys", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Come Together", "Day Tripper", "Dear Prudence", "Dig A Pony", "Do You Want To Know A Secret", "Don't Let Me Down", "Drive My Car", "Eight Days A Week", "Fixing A Hole", "Get Back", "Getting Better", "Girl", "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End", "Good Morning Good Morning", "Hello Goodbye", "Helter Skelter", "Her Majesty", "Here Comes the Sun", "Hey Bulldog", "I Am The Walrus", "I Feel Fine", "I Me Mine", "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "I'm Looking Through You", "I've Got A Feeling", "If I Needed Someone", "In My Life", "Lovely Rita", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Michelle", "Norwegian Wood This Bird Has Flown", "Nowhere Man", "Octopus's Garden", "Oh Darling", "Paperback Writer", "Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Revolution", "Run For Your Life", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends", "She's Leaving Home", "Something", "Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard", "Taxman", "The End", "The Word", "Think For Yourself", "Ticket To Ride", "Twist and Shout", "Wait", "What Goes On", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Within You Without You", "Within You Without You/Tommorrow Never Knows", "Yellow Submarine", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "You Won't See Me")
2009The Beatles on Record
(TV documentary)
(writer: "I Am the Walrus", "She Loves You", "A Hard Day's Night", "Ticket to Ride", "Let It Be")
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Episode #1.3
(2008)
(music: "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited / lyrics: "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited)
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Episode #1.2
(2008)
(music: "A Hard Day's Night" - uncredited, "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited / lyrics: "A Hard Day's Night" - uncredited, "With a Little Help from My Friends" - uncredited)
2007Across the Universe
(writer: "Girl", "Helter Skelter", "Hold Me Tight", "All My Loving", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "It Won't Be Long", "I've Just Seen A Face", "Let It Be", "Come Together", "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?", "If I Fell", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Dear Prudence", "Flying", "I Am The Walrus", "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite", "Because", "Oh! Darling", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Revolution", "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "Don't Let Me Down", "All You Need Is Love", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "A Day In The Life", "Across The Universe", "She Loves You", "And I Love Her")
2006Children of Men
(writer: "Bring on the Lucie" / music: "Tomorrow Never Knows" / as Lennon / lyrics: "Tomorrow Never Knows" / as Lennon / performer: "Bring on the Lucie")
2002Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace
(TV documentary)
(writer: "The Long And Winding Road", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Her Majesty", "Blackbird", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band reprise", "The End", "All You Need Is Love", "Hey Jude")
2001I Am Sam
(writer: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Two of Us", "Across the Universe", "I'm Looking through You", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Golden Slumbers", "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away", "Blackbird", "Mother Nature's Son")
2001The Bomber
(performer: "Happy Xmas War is over")
2001The Royal Tenenbaums
(writer: "Hey Jude", "Look At Me" / performer: "Look At Me")
1995You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
(video documentary)
(writer: "A Hard Day's Night" 1964 - uncredited, "You Can't Do That" 1964 - uncredited, "I Should Have Known Better" 1964 - uncredited, "Tell Me Why" 1964 - uncredited, If I Fell" 1964 - uncredited, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1964 - uncredited / music: "This Boy Ringo's Theme" 1963 - uncredited)
1992Secrets
(writer: "LOVE ME DO", "I SAW HER STANDING THERE", "Do You Want to Know a Secret", "It Won't Be Long", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "Helter Skelter", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "Can't Buy Me Love", "All My Loving", "She Loves You", "Revolution", "I Feel Fine", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds", "Dear Prudence", "Eight Days a Week", "She's Leaving Home", "Hold Me Tight", "With a Little Help from My Friends", "This Boy", "A Hard Day's Night")
1991The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
(video documentary)
(writer: "All My Lovin", "From Me To You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "I Wanna Be Your Man", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "It Won't Be Long", "Love Me Do", "Please, Please Me", "She Loves You", "This Boy")
1988Imagine: John Lennon
(documentary)
(writer: "A Day in the Life", "Across the Universe", "All You Need Is Love", "Ballad of John & Yoko", "Come Together", "Don't Let Me Down", "Give Peace a Chance", "Help", "In My Life", "I've Got a Feeling", "Julia", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Nowhere Man", "Revolution", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "God", "Hold on John", "How?", "How Do You Sleep?", "Mother", "Beautiful Boy", "Happy Xmas War Is Over", "Imagine", "Jealous Guy", " Just Like Starting Over", "Oh Yoko", "Woman", "From Me to You", "Love Me Do", "Real Love", "Two Virgins")
1987Concrete Angels
(writer: "She Loves You", "Love Me Do", "From Me To You", "Misery", "P.S. I Love You", "A Hard Day's Night", "I Saw Her Standing There")
1987Five Corners
(music: "In My Life" / lyrics: "In My Life")
1987Disorderlies
(writer: "Baby You're a Rich Man")
1986John Lennon Live in New York City
(video documentary)
(writer: "Power to the People", "New York City", "It's So Hard", "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", "Well, Well, Well", "Instant Karma!", "Mother", "Come Together", "Imagine", "Cold Turkey", "Give Peace a Chance")
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The Heart of Rock 'N' Roll
(1984)
(writer: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Help!", "Eleanor Rigby", "Come Together", "All You Need Is Love", "The End")
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Your Own Song
(1982)
(music: "Penny Lane" / lyrics: "Penny Lane")
1979Birth of the Beatles
(writer: "I Saw Her Standing There", "Love Me Do", "Ask Me Why", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Please Please Me", "She Loves You", "Please Mister Postman")
1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(writer: "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole" / music: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Getting Better", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Reprise, "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Finale / lyrics: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Getting Better", "I Want You She's So Heavy", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Reprise, "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "Got To Get You Into My Life", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" Finale)
1978Ringo
(TV movie)
(writer: "I Am The Greatest" - uncredited, "Yellow Submarine" - uncredited)
1978All You Need Is Cash
(TV movie)
(writer: "Hold My Hand", "I Must Be In Love", "With A Girl Like You", "O-U-C-H!", "Love Life", "Good Times Roll", "Doubleback Alley", "Another Day", "Cheese And Onions", "Piggy In The Middle", "Let's Be Natural", "Get Up And Go", "Between Us Made For Each Other", "Goose-Step Mama", "It's Looking Good" / arranger: "Number One")
1976All This and World War II
(documentary)
(writer: "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight", "I Am the Walrus", "She's Leaving Home", "Lovely Rita", "When I'm Sixty Four", "Get Back", "Let it Be", "Yesterday", "With a Little Help From My Friends / Nowhere Man", "Because", "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window", "Michelle", "We Can Work it Out", "The Fool on the Hill", "Hey, Jude", "Polythene Pam", "Sun King", "Getting Better", "The Long And Winding Road", "Help", "A Day in the Life", "Come Together", "You Never Give Me Your Money")
1974Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
(documentary short)
(writer: "Cry Baby Cry", "Love Me Do", "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", "A Hard Day's Night", "She Loves You", "All My Loving", "Ticket to Ride", "Yesterday", "Help!", "Her Majesty", "We Can Work It Out", "Eleonor Rigby", "Paperback Writer", "Yellow Submarine", "Penny Lane", "A Little Help From My Friends", "A Day in the Life", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Revolution", "Blackbird", "Hey Jude", "Come Together")
1970Let It Be
(documentary)
(writer: "Two of Us", "Dig A Pony", "Across the Universe", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Dig It", "Let It Be", "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909", "Don't Let Me Down", "The Long and Winding Road", "Get Back")
1970Woodstock
(documentary)
(writer: "With A Little Help From My Friends")
1968Yellow Submarine
(writer: "Yellow Submarine", "Hey Bulldog", "Eleanor Rigby", "All Together Now", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Baby You're A Rich Man", "All You Need Is Love", "When I'm Sixty-Four", "Nowhere Man", "A Day In the Life")
1967Magical Mystery Tour
(TV special)
(writer: "Magical Mystery Tour", "The Fool on the Hill", "Flying", "I Am the Walrus", "Your Mother Should Know", "She Loves You", "All My Loving")
1965Help!
(writer: "Help!" 1965 - uncredited, "You're Going to Lose That Girl" 1965 - uncredited, "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" 1965 - uncredited, "Ticket to Ride" 1965 - uncredited, "A Hard Day's Night" 1964 - uncredited, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1964 - uncredited, "You Can't Do That" 1964 - uncredited)
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Episode #17.21
(1964)
(writer: "Please Please Me" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited / performer: "Twist and Shout" - uncredited, "Please Please Me" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited)
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Episode #17.20
(1964)
(writer: "She Loves You" - uncredited, "This Boy" - uncredited, "All My Loving" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "From Me to You" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" / performer: "She Loves You" - uncredited, "This Boy" - uncredited, "All My Loving" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "From Me to You" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand")
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Episode #17.19
(1964)
(writer: "All My Loving" - uncredited, "She Loves You" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited / performer: "All My Loving" - uncredited, "Till There Was You" - uncredited, "She Loves You" - uncredited, "I Saw Her Standing There" - uncredited, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" - uncredited)
1965Go Go Mania
(writer: "She Loves You", "A World Without Love")
1964A Hard Day's Night
(writer: "A Hard Day's Night" 1964 - uncredited, "I Should Have Known Better" 1964 - uncredited, "I Wanna Be Your Man" 1963 - uncredited, "If I Fell" 1964 - uncredited, "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1964 - uncredited, "Tell Me Why" 1964 - uncredited, "She Loves You" 1963 - uncredited / music: "This Boy Ringo's Theme" 1963 - uncredited / performer: "Rule Britannia" 1740 - uncredited)
When real music comes to me - the music of the spheres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, 'cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.
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Trivia:
Amateur photographer Paul Goresh was the last person to photograph Lennon alive, autographing his "Double Fantasy" album for Mark David Chapman, just hours before Chapman fatally shot Lennon. A press photographer sneaked into the morgue, photographing Lennon's body in state before it was taken to be cremated.
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