There was an isolated newspaper claim at the time that, before firing, Chapman softly called out " Mr. Lennon " and dropped into a " combat stance "; Chapman has said he doesn't recall saying anything and Lennon did not turn around.

He tried to introduce Lennon to Pierre Trudeau, but the prime minister was not at home when they dropped by.

Lennon was producing Harry Nilsson's latest album, Pussy Cats, when Paul and Linda McCartney dropped in on the first night of the session, aka " the Jim Keltner Fan Club Hour ", at Burbank Studios on 28 March 1974.

Lennon and Griffiths attended some guitar lessons but found it too slow to learn and dropped the lessons when Lennon's mother taught them to play easier banjo chords.

On 18 November, " Cold Turkey " dropped to number 15, and on 25 November Lennon returned his MBE to Buckingham Palace saying " I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against Cold Turkey slipping down the charts.

Lennon never reached the same level of success in the U. S. post-Valotte, but he hit number five in Australia with the 1989 single " Now You're In Heaven ", which also gave him his second # 1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart in the USA.

In 1961 The Beatles ( comprising Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Pete Best ), who had met Sheridan during their first visit to Hamburg in 1960, worked with him on their second.

The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his garden, while the third was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake.

" The first verse Lennon wrote became the second in the released version, and the second verse Lennon wrote became the last in the release.

After recording the second version of the song, Lennon wanted to do something different with it, as Martin remembered: " He'd wanted it as a gentle dreaming song, but he said it had come out too raucous.

The radio and television presenter Paul Gambaccini has stated that the Bee Gees were " second only to Lennon and McCartney as the most successful songwriting unit in British popular music ", and recognised Gibb as " one of the major figures in the history of British music one of the best white soul voices ever ".

He has said that his early songwriting " was influenced by early Beatles-the sense of a three-minute guitar-pop song ", and early in his career The Cure's second single Boys Don't Cry was compared by British music paper Record Mirror to " John Lennon at 12 or 13 ".

The Thomas Taylor translation of the Search ( 1694 ; second edition 1700 ) includes material not contained in the Lennon and Olscamp edition ( which is based on the 1712 version of the text ).

* bringing John Lennon and Paul McCartney to the recording studio, which led to their song " I Wanna Be Your Man " becoming the Rolling Stones ' second single ;

Initially, the lyrics in their songs were primarily concerned with food, before expanding into broader subject matter following the addition of Sean Lennon, Timo Ellis and Duma Love to the band, showcased on their second studio album.

** Sean Lennon, John Lennon's second son, with Yoko Ono

He has been voted as the greatest British songwriter of all time in a 2009 OnePoll, who surveyed 3000 people John Lennon was second and Paul McCartney of The Beatles was third.

However, their manager David Massey convinced Arista to close their contract with Huang Chung, and instead placed the band with American label Geffen Records, making the group the second UK-based act to be signed to Geffen worldwide after Asia ( not counting then-New York-based John Lennon in 1980 ).

In April and May 1972, the band recorded their second self-titled album, produced by Lennon and released on the Beatles ' Apple Records label.

After the group met The Beatles during rehearsals for a television appearance, John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided the Applejacks with a song which was to be their second single: " Like Dreamers Do ".

| Michaël Lennon, her second husband

| Sandra Lennon of Byfleet, Surrey gave birth to her son Joshua in the beginning of 2003, at the age of 57 ½, after IVF treatment ; she will still have a second son, Alex, by same treatment, in October 2004.

Sandra Lennon, who has two adult children from her first marriage, told that she decided to go through IVF after she met her second husband, Michaël Lennon.

| Michaël Lennon, her second husband, allegedly, an anonymous sperm donor finally

Lennon, who has two adult children from her first marriage, told that she decided to go through IVF after she met her second husband, Michael.

In Hamburg in 1960, Beatles guitarist John Lennon bought a Rickenbacker 325 Capri, which he used throughout the early days of The Beatles.

Two new 325s were created for Lennon and were shipped to him while The Beatles were in Miami Beach, Florida, on the same 1964 visit to the US: a one-off custom 12-string 325 model and an updated six-string model with modified electronics and vibrato.

While it was being repaired, Rickenbacker's UK distributor Rose Morris gave Lennon a model 1996 ( the export version of a 325, available exclusively in a red finish and with an F-hole ).

* John Lennon – 1964 Rickenbacker 325 electric guitar through Vox AC-50 guitar amp

Lennon played an Epiphone Casino ; McCartney played a Mellotron, a new home instrument purchased by Lennon on August 12, 1965, ( with another model hired in after encouragement from Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues ); Starr played drums, and Harrison played electric guitar.

There has been various speculation as to the subject of Lennon's affair: his friend Pete Shotton suggested a journalist of their acquaintance, possibly Maureen Cleave ( though Cleave has said that in all her encounters with Lennon there was " no pass "), while writer Philip Norman claimed that the woman was model Sonny Drane, the first wife of Beatles photographer Robert Freeman.

This model featured two hatches that lifted at the touch of buttons on the side of the craft to allow models of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to pop into view.

Although it sounded very much like an electric guitar, Lennon actually played it on an acoustic-electric guitar ( a Gibson model J-160E ), employing the guitar's onboard pickup.

Holly's essential eyeglasses encouraged other musicians, such as John Lennon, also to wear their glasses during performances.

Although the song was written by Lennon during his tenure with the Beatles it was both written and recorded without the help of the band and released as Lennon's first independent single under the " Plastic Ono Band " moniker.

* August 11 – The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his " more popular than Jesus " remark, saying, " I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing.

The Fifth Beatle is an informal title that various commentators in the press and entertainment industry have applied to persons who were at one point a member of The Beatles, or who had a strong association with the " Fab Four " ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr ) during the group's existence.

The band during this time period consisted of Best, bassist Stuart Sutcliffe ( see above ), and guitarists Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and John Lennon.

Vliet spoke badly of Lennon after getting no response when he sent a telegram of support to him and wife Yoko Ono during their 1969 " Bed – In for peace ".

Yet during these sessions they were still capable of recording the single " I Feel Fine " and its B-side, " She's a Woman " ( both written by Lennon – McCartney, and not included on the album ).

Lewisohn also reports that, in the case of " Back in the U. S. S. R .", also recorded during Starr's absence, the three remaining Beatles each made contributions on bass and drums, with the result that those parts may be composite tracks played by Lennon, McCartney and / or Harrison.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

The relationship between pioneer Christian rock musicians Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill, sometimes described as the Lennon – McCartney of Christian rock, was a controversial one during its more than forty years from its inception in 1967 until Norman's death in February 2008.

Lennon began writing the song in Almería, Spain, during the filming of Richard Lester's How I Won the War in September – October 1966.

During the same visit to Knole Park, Goldman produced the promotional film for " Penny Lane ", the reverse side of the " Strawberry Fields Forever " single ( during this same stay in Sevenoaks, John Lennon wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that would inspire the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !").

1973 found Nilsson back in California, and when John Lennon moved there during his separation from Yoko Ono, the two musicians rekindled their earlier friendship.

Both men also caused property damage during binges, with Lennon trashing a bedroom in Lou Adler's house, and Nilsson throwing a bottle through a 30-foot-high hotel window.

To make matters worse, Nilsson ruptured a vocal cord during the sessions for this album, but he hid the injury for fear that Lennon would call a halt to the production.

The John Lennon song covered by Acid Test during the live, " Mother ", was later recorded and released on a tribute album Happy Birthday, John, and released on September 30, 2005.

Yellow Dog released Unsurpassed Demos in 1991, featuring 22 songs from the 1968 Kinfauns ( Esher ) demos, only some of which had been previously made public during the radio series The Lost Lennon Tapes that debuted in 1988.

Several Lennon – McCartney titles were mentioned in a 1960 letter from McCartney, including " Looking Glass ", " Years Roll Along ", and " Keep Looking That Way ", but there is no evidence that tapes were ever made of those songs during rehearsals from that era.

When questioned about the eight-year gap between solo albums in interviews, Lennon expressed that he did not feel like a solo artist during those years and that he wanted to experience music anonymously without the spotlight on him.

His favorite song was " Imagine " by John Lennon, which was played during the space mission.

Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell, Jim Keltner, Klaus Voormann, Billy Preston and the four members of Badfinger were all mentioned during this initial brainstorming.

( Gallagher admitting he ' cried like a baby ' when City won the Premier League title ) He is a friend of former City midfielder Joey Barton, as well as Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Italian striker Alessandro Del Piero, who described Gallagher as Italy's " lucky mascot " during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and appears in the Oasis video " Lord Don't Slow Me Down ".

Celebrity guests, such as former Vice President Spiro Agnew, singers Plácido Domingo and John Lennon ( formerly of The Beatles ), President Bill Clinton, and even Kermit the Frog, were often featured during the game to " liven up " the broadcast.