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.

Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, " Fame ", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar.

He is the son of John Lennon and Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Powell.

* 1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel ( until March 31 ).

Trudeau was the first world leader to meet John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono on their ' tour for world peace '.

According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

In addition to Lennon and Ono, this first incarnation of the group consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Klaus Voormann, and drummer Alan White.

Ono released her first solo album, Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band in 1970, as a companion piece to Lennon's better-known John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band.

Kyoko is also referenced on the first line of " Happy Christmas ( War Is Over )" when Yoko whispers " Happy Christmas Kyoko " followed by Lennon whispering " Happy Christmas Julian.

In 1961, years before meeting Lennon, she had her first major public performance in a concert at the 258-seat Carnegie Recital Hall ( not the larger " Main Hall ").

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 ).

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.

Ono's relationship with John Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Lennon remains strained.

* July 6 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.

Baez ' first album for A & M, Come from the Shadows, was recorded in Nashville, and included a number of more personal compositions, including " Love Song to a Stranger " and " Myths ", as well as work by Mimi Farina, John Lennon, and Anna Marly.

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 album features eight original compositions ( seven by Lennon – McCartney and " Don't Bother Me ", George Harrison's first recorded solo composition and his first released on a Beatles album ) and six covers ( mostly of Motown and R & B hits ).

" I'm a Loser " shows Lennon for the first time coming under the influence of Bob Dylan, whom he met for the first time in New York while on tour, on 28 August 1964.

" 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.

However, the recording chronology belies the interpretation that from the single to the album Lennon moved from a definite position to one of ambivalence, since despite the single's earlier release it was the album version that was recorded first.

During the January 1969 sessions for the Let It Be album, the Beatles played a slow impromptu version of " Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues " — although not written by Holly, it was popularized by him — with Lennon mimicking Holly's vocal style ; the recording was eventually released in the mid-1990s on Anthology 3.

John Lennon played harmonica on early Beatles ' hits as " Love Me Do ", " Please Please Me ", " I'll Get You " and " I Should Have Known Better ", in the later songs such as " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

In 1974, Moon played drums on Harry Nilsson's album " Pussy Cats ", which was produced by John Lennon.

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 ).

This band played Williams ' compositions almost exclusively ( the Lennon – McCartney song " Blackbird ," the standard " Poinciana ," and the Freddie Hubbard blues " Birdlike " being the exceptions ) and toured and recorded throughout the remainder of the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

The record sleeve-note shows that Lennon and McCartney made more extensive and prominent use of keyboards, previously played unobtrusively by Martin.

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.

* Ron Nasty ( styled after John Lennon ) — played by Neil Innes

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.

"' He and his childhood friends Pete Shotton and Ivan Vaughan often played in the wooded area behind the building, which Lennon nicknamed in the plural " Strawberry Fields.

After Lennon played the song for the other Beatles on his acoustic guitar, the band recorded the first take.

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.

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 ".

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

* " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", a 1972 song from the album Some Time in New York City, by John Lennon & Yoko Ono

The John Lennon album Some Time in New York City features a song entitled " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", inspired by the incident, as well as the song " The Luck of the Irish ", which dealt more with the Irish conflict in general.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Through this company, Lennon released a tribute song and EP, " Lucy ", honoring the memory of Lucy Vodden, the little girl who inspired the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, with 50 % of the proceeds going to fund Lupus research.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

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 ".

* Saul Williams mentions Biko along with other notable figures such as Buddha, Bob Marley, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, Shiva in the song " Coded Language ".

Travelling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland ( Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !).

Lennon detailed this period in The Beatles ' song " The Ballad of John and Yoko ".

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.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon and Ono were in the studio working on Ono's song Walking on Thin Ice.

Ono had previously performed the song once with John Lennon and once with Sean Lennon and told the audience of thousands that she will never perform it again.

Lennon subsequently expressed regret that he had not given co-writing credit to Ono instead, who actually helped him write the song.

In 1995, after the Beatles released Lennon's " Free as a Bird " and " Real Love " with demos provided by Ono, McCartney and his family collaborated with her and Sean Lennon to create the song " Hiroshima Sky is Always Blue ", which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of that Japanese city.