Bardot was idolized by young John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

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.

" Lennon and McCartney later cited Holly as a primary influence.

Lennon and McCartney distanced themselves from the " concept album " tag as applied to that album.

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

* 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.

* John Lennon & Paul McCartney

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.

" again, Lennon and McCartney prevented Orbison from going on again by physically holding him back.

The Rolling Stones featured a slide guitar as early as their 1963 recording of the John Lennon / Paul McCartney song " I Wanna Be Your Man ".

McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts, but suggested that Lennon might oblige.

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.

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.

Hoover, perhaps at the behest of Richard Nixon, investigated ex-Beatle John Lennon by putting the singer under surveillance, and Hoover wrote this letter to the Attorney General in 1972.

Ono wrote a song about her daughter, " Don't Worry Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow )," which appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace In Toronto 1969 and her album Fly.

In the early 1990s, Greenaway wrote ten opera libretti known as the Death of a Composer series, dealing with the commonalities of the deaths of ten composers from Anton Webern to John Lennon, however, the other composers are fictitious, and one is a character from The Falls.

Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called " Maharishi " which included the lyrics, " Maharishi / You little twat "; the song became " Sexy Sadie ".

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

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

The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge ; Lennon wrote the lines " Mis-ter cit-y police-man " to the rhythm and melody of the siren.

( Lennon wrote an answer, dated 1 September 1967, which was auctioned by Christie's of London in 1992 ).

Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles ' lyrics, wrote the most confusing lyrics he could.

Although it has been reported that Lennon wrote " I am the Walrus " to confuse those who tried to interpret his songs, there have been many attempts to analyse the meaning of the lyrics.

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

Although McCartney originally wrote the song for Julian Lennon, John Lennon thought it had actually been written for him:

Still others, including John Lennon, have speculated that McCartney's failing long-term relationship with Jane Asher when he wrote " Hey Jude " was an unconscious " message to himself.

In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wrote, " the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been written with a court case in mind.

Lennon wrote the song " Maharishi " ( with the lines: " what have you done?

John Lennon wrote most of the song, and finished writing the words with Paul McCartney ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ).

McCartney wrote the song at Lennon's house in Weybridge while waiting for Lennon to wake up.

Thus, in 1964, in A Hard Day's Night, John Lennon mischievously taunts the road manager with the line “ If you're gonna have a barney, can I hold your coat ?".

The song features a two-part harmony sung by Lennon and McCartney, similar to that of " If I Fell " on The Beatles ' previous album.

Peter and Gordon also recorded the John Lennon-penned Lennon – McCartney song, " If I Fell ", which was also recorded by The Beatles and released on their 1964 album, A Hard Day's Night.

Gibb said he had battled the booze since the seventies when John Lennon gave him his first drink, which was a Whiskey and Coke: " If he had given me cyanide, I would have drunk the cyanide, I was so in awe of the man.

Some of the Lennon demos available include " Bad To Me " ( 1963, given to Billy J. Kramer ), " I'm in Love " ( 1963, given to The Fourmost ), " If I Fell " ( 1964 ), and " Everyone Had A Hard Year " ( 1968, later incorporated into " I've Got a Feeling ").

The backwards vocals are Lennon singing the lyrics of the song: " When the sun shines ," " Rain ," and " If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads.

This song belatedly acknowledges the influences of John Lennon in particular, which was very strong on " If I Had You " and " Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime " which capture the ethereal sounds of Lennon's early 1970s output.

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Among his singles were " Way Back In The Fifties ", " Hi Summer " backed with " My Girl And Me ", both written and produced by Lynsey De Paul, ( the theme song to an ITV variety series he co-hosted ), " Maybe God's Got Something Up His Sleeve ", the John Lennon song " Imagine ", plus a cover version of the Cliff Richard hit " Miss You Nights ", and Wood's " Aerial Pictures ".

With its intimations of mortality, Lennon's contribution to the twelve-bar bridge contrasts typically with what Lennon saw as McCartney's cajoling optimism, a contrast also seen in other collaborations by the pair, such as " Getting Better " and " I've Got a Feeling ".

" Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey " is a song written by John Lennon ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ) and performed by The Beatles on their 1968 album The Beatles, also known as " The White Album ".

" All I've Got to Do " is a song written by John Lennon ( credited to Lennon – McCartney ) and performed by The Beatles on their second UK album, With The Beatles.

In another version, recorded on a different day ( but very similar in style to the one recorded on the 26th ) Lennon begins to shout songs that the Beatles were currently working on in the studio: '" Don't Let Me Down ", " Get Back ", " I've Got A Feeling ", " Two of Us ", " All I Want Is You ", " Teddy Boy ", " One After 909 ", " All Things Must Pass ", " Dig It ", " Let It Be ", " The Long and Winding Road ", " For You Blue ", " Maxwell's Silver Hammer ", " Across The Universe, " I Me Mine ", " She Came In Through The Bathroom Window "'.

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