Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in A Twist of Lennon.

Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

* Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles.

Known for having raucous shows expressing an extraordinary amount of energy, Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr stood dumbfounded backstage as Orbison performed completely still and simply sang through fourteen encores.

Orbison felt a kinship with Lennon, but it was Harrison with whom he would later form a strong friendship.

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.

Pete Best joined Lennon, McCartney, Stuart Sutcliffe and Harrison on the eve of their Hamburg sojourn, the five using the monikers, " The Silver Beetles " and " The Silver Beatles " ( they would experiment with " The Beat Brothers " and ultimately " The Beatles " while in Hamburg with Best ).

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

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.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ", ( Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall ), arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; string section and harp on " She's Leaving Home ", arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin ; harmonium, tabla, sitar, dilruba, eight violins and four cellos on " Within You, Without You ", arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin ; clarinet trio on " When I'm Sixty Four ", as arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney ; saxophone sextet on " Good Morning, Good Morning ", arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon ; and forty-piece orchestra ( strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion ) on " A Day in the Life ", arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney

The Beatles had left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Starr and then McCartney departing, and Lennon and Harrison departing together later.

Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison pleaded with Starr to return, and after two weeks he did.

Indeed, after The Beatles was completed, both Harrison and Lennon would stage similar unpublicised departures from the band.

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 " Paperback Writer " clip is more conventional, with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison lip-synching and miming playing their instruments ( although Ringo is notably not ' playing ').

The lineup for the released versions of " Get Back " was Paul McCartney, lead vocal and bass ; John Lennon, lead guitar and backing vocal ; George Harrison, rhythm guitar ; Ringo Starr, drums ; and Billy Preston, electric piano.

Harrison, the usual lead guitarist, had temporarily quit the group on 10 January, so Lennon worked out the lead guitar.

After the police spoke to Mal Evans, he turned off Lennon and Harrison's amplifiers only for Harrison to switch them back on, insisting that they finish the song.

In both versions the lead guitar played by Lennon is in the left channel and the rhythm guitar played by Harrison is in the right channel.

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.

The Beatles ( McCartney, Starr, Harrison, and Lennon ) pouring paint over a piano in the video for the song

It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tamboura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Lennon, and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played by McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding " not unlike a celeste ".

Lennon promoted the album with music videos for the two hits made by movie director Sam Peckinpah and producer Martin Lewis.

Lennon played this guitar for The Beatles ' famous 1964 debut on The Ed Sullivan Show ( as well as for their third Sullivan appearance, pre-taped the same day but broadcast two weeks later ).

The two albums have almost identical covers: Ono's featured a photo of her leaning on Lennon, and Lennon's had a photo of him leaning on Ono.

The couple separated in 1973 and the two began living separate lives, Ono pursuing her career in New York and Lennon living in Los Angeles with personal assistant May Pang in a period commonly referred to as his " lost weekend.

When they returned to The Dakota, their home in New York City, Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had been stalking Lennon for two months.

While the group was together, every song written by Lennon or McCartney was credited as Lennon – McCartney regardless of whether the song was a collaboration or written solely by one of the two ( except for those appearing on their first album, Please Please Me, which credited the songs to McCartney – Lennon ).

After Lennon's death, McCartney once again attempted to change the order to " McCartney – Lennon " for songs such as " Yesterday " that were solely or predominantly written by him, but Ono would not allow it, saying she felt this broke an agreement that the two had made while Lennon was still alive.

His work is thought to have been a significant influence on the two books written by John Lennon in 1964 / 5 – John Lennon In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.

Lennon displayed two of the album's promotional ' baby bumper stickers ' in the sunroom at his home.

" Eight Days a Week " is noteworthy as one of the first examples of the in-studio experimentation that the band would use extensively in the future ; in two recording sessions totalling nearly seven hours on 6 October devoted exclusively to this song, Lennon and McCartney tried one technique after another before settling on the eventual arrangement.

More recently, the song " Revolution 1 ( Take 20 )", a previously unknown track, surfaced in 2009 on a bootleg and is supposed to connect " Revolution 1 " and the avant-garde " Revolution 9 " ( both of which appeared on The Beatles ) in an attempt by Lennon to record one long version of " Revolution " before ultimately splitting the two songs up.

Lennon claimed he wrote the first two lines on separate acid trips.

Lennon said, " You can fix it, George ", giving Martin and Emerick the difficult task of joining the two takes together.

The single topped the US Billboard pop charts for two weeks in January 1975 as well as the Canadian RPM national singles chart for four weeks spanning January and February, eventually overtaken by The Carpenters's version of the Motown hit " Please Mr. Postman ", a song covered, with Lennon singing the lead vocal, on With the Beatles in 1963.

The albums included unreleased performances and outtakes presented in roughly chronological order, along with two new songs based on demo tapes recorded by John Lennon after the group broke up.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

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.

There are also Lennon demos available of songs that would develop into " She Said She Said ", " Strawberry Fields Forever ", " Good Morning Good Morning ", " Across the Universe ", " You Know My Name ( Look Up The Number )", " Don't Let Me Down ", and two songs he would later record after The Beatles, " Oh My Love " and " Cold Turkey ".

In addition to the two songs released, two other Lennon demos ( which have been bootlegged ) became the basis for additional work by the other three Beatles: " Now and Then " and " Grow Old With Me ".