I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us.None of us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough. You see we wanted to be bigger than Elvis - that was the main thing. "Oh, sure, I dug the fame, the power the money, and playing to big crowds. Richard Starkey replaces Pete Best as drummer and becomes Ringo Starr. I'm not saying we weren't flags on top of the ship, but the whole beat was moving."ġ962: The Beatles pass an autition for EMI Records after being turned down elsewhere (one rejection says "groups of guitars are on the way out") the group wins the Mersey Beat poll, releases "Love Me Do" and makes its first television appearance on "People and Places." Lennon marries Cynthia Powell (they will have one son). "Whatever wind was blowing at the time moved the Beatles, too. "What we generated was fantastic, when we played straight rock, and there was nobody to touch us in Britain. The Beatles tour England, most often at the bottom of the bill, and start making regular trips to Hamburg, Germany, where their following is much greater than in England. In 1961, they meet record-store owner Brian Epstein, who becomes their manager. A year later, they've dropped the Silver and start working in Liverpool teen clubs for $16.80 a night. By 1959, the Quarrymen have evolved into the Silver Beatles. He throws himself totally into his music. Funny enough, no one was interested."ġ957: Lennon's mother - with whom he was beginning a reconciliation - is killed in a car crash. When they were together, they wondered what for after all, what for? So all of a sudden they grew guitars and formed a noise. They decided to get together because they were the getting together type. "Once upon a time there were three little boys called John, George and Paul, by name christened. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids."ġ955: Lennon forms his first group, the Quarrymen, and meets two other would-be musicians, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. "Rock 'n' roll was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. Or maybe I'm like our parents: That's my period and I'll dig it and never leave it." No group, be it the Beatles, Dylan or the Stones, have ever improved on "Whole Lot of Shakin" for my money. "There is nothing conceptually better than rock and roll. He fell headlong into rock 'n' roll, leaving all his other interest behind. If there is such a thing as genius, I am one, and if there isn't, I don't care."ġ953: Lennon has already mastered the harmonica, and now he learns guitar. I always wondered, why nobody discovered me?In school, didn't they see I was cleverer than anybody else?. "People like me are aware of their so-called genius at 10, 8. He excells in art and literature, expanding his musical interests during the early - '50s rock and folk craze in England. As a schoolboy, Lennon is known for his intellect, mischief and disrespect of authority. Shortly after he is born, Lennon's mother leaves him in the care of her married sister, Mimi Smith.
9, 1940: John Winston Lennon is born at Liverpool's Oxford Maternity Hospital, the only son of Alfred and Julia Lennon.
What follows is a history of his life illustrated with selected quotations. Over a 20-year career that left a lasting mark on popular music, Lennon's witty and often controversial remarks appeared in scores of books, magazines and newspaper articles. Sometimes people laughed sometimes they were infuriated. Track listing Īll songs composed by Freddie Lennon and Tony Cartwright.John LENNON - who died last Monday at the age of 40 - was seldom at a loss for words. Alfred, disheartened, abandoned further attempts at a career in music. However, the song suddenly disappeared from the charts, an action suspected by Cartwright to be instigated by John Lennon. When released, the song had commercial success, with Morris Levy of Roulette Records asking Cartwright to bring Lennon to the United States. It was recorded by a 30 piece orchestra which included the future members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. Tony Cartwright, co-author of the song, began writing it with inspiration from Freddie Lennon's stories. " That's My Life (My Love and My Home)" is a 1965 single by Alfred "Freddie" Lennon, the father of the musician John Lennon of the Beatles. 1965 single by Alfred Lennon "That's My Life (My Love and My Home)"
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