She also received minor airplay with the ballad " Mrs. Lennon ".

Thurmond's memo and attachment, received by the White House on February 7, 1972, initiated the Nixon administration's persecution of John Lennon that threatened the former Beatle with deportation for nearly five years from 1972 to 1976.

The occupation received support from across the world, with a series of fundraising events and foreign unions, celebrities ( such as John Lennon and Billy Connolly ) and members of the public providing donations.

The campaign was also well backed financially, and at one meeting for the campaign Jimmy Reid was able to announce that the campaign had received a £ 5, 000 contribution from John Lennon, to which an attendee replied " but Lenin's deid!

" Their three best received, most popular albums were " Lawrence Welk presents The Lennon Sisters: Best-Loved Catholic Hymns ( Dot );" " Christmas with The Lennon Sisters ( Dot ); and " Noel ," their Christmas album for Mercury Records.

In response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, during the first week of August, Col Thomas J. Lennon, 48th Tactical Fighter Wing Commander, received a call from Headquarters, US States Air Force, asking if the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing was ready to deploy.

" Harrison received a writing credit for two earlier songs, " In Spite of All the Danger " ( McCartney / Harrison ) and " Cry for a Shadow " ( Harrison / Lennon ).

Although a fair amount of time was dedicated to the song, it was ultimately pushed aside, just as other Harrison compositions including " Old Brown Shoe ", " Isn't It a Pity ", " Let It Down " and " I Me Mine " received a lukewarm reception, particularly from Lennon.

The movie received modest ratings when it premiered on American television, and was repeated in December 1980, as a tribute to John Lennon in the weeks after his murder.

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.

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.

Freedom of Information Act requests have led to the release of information such as this letter by J. Edgar Hoover about surveillance of ex-Beatle John Lennon.

It was also an open letter to Ono, whose postcards to Lennon in India were a lifeline.

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

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

In 2009, Lennon founded The White Feather Foundation, whose mission " embraces environmental and humanitarian issues and in conjunction with partners from around the world helps to raise funds for the betterment of all life, and to honour those who have truly made a difference.

" Its name came from a conversation Lennon once had with his father.

Lennon opened an exhibition of 35 photographs called " Timeless: The Photography of Julian Lennon " with help from long-time friend and fellow photographer Timothy White.

featured diverse names from Sean Lennon and Del tha Funkee Homosapien to Alec Empire and Don Novello.

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

" Ono became pregnant in 1968 and miscarried a male child they named John Ono Lennon II on 21 November 1968, a few weeks after Lennon's divorce from Cynthia was granted.

Their relationship was strained by the threat of deportation Lennon faced ( due to drug charges filed in Britain ), and Ono's separation from her daughter.

John Lennon retired from music to become a househusband caring for their child, until shortly before his murder in December 1980, which Ono witnessed at close range.

Ono funded the construction and maintenance of the Strawberry Fields memorial in New York City's Central Park, across from where they lived and Lennon died.

On the 1998 John Lennon anthology, Lennon Legend, the composer credit of " Give Peace a Chance " was changed to " John Lennon " from its original composing credit of Lennon – McCartney.

However, the episode " Flashes Before Your Eyes " suggests that minor changes are possible, unlike the totally fixed timeline postulated by Novikov's principle: in this episode Desmond's consciousness time travels back to a point in his past, where he ends up in a bar, where he remembers ( from his previous experience of this time ) a man named Jimmy Lennon entering and attacking the bartender ; in his attempt to warn the bartender, he himself gets attacked instead.

They also have some sort of " levitation beams " seen in the TV film " In the Beginning " wherein Lennon and a group of Minbari emissaries from the Grey Council are levitated from a platform on the ground up to ship high above them.

On February 4, 1972, Thurmond sent a secret memo to William Timmons ( in his capacity as an aide to Richard Nixon ) and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with an attached file from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urging that British musician John Lennon ( living in New York City at the time ) be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, due to Lennon's political views and activism.

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.

The piano can be seen in the 1971 film footage that features John Lennon performing Imagine for his wife Yoko Ono at his home in England and in Sean Lennon's much debated photo from 2010 showing pop musician Lady Gaga playing the piano.

Similarly, although The Beatles ' productions were credited to George Martin throughout their recording career, many sources now attest that Lennon and McCartney in particular had an increasing influence on the production process as the group's career progressed, and especially after the band retired from touring in 1966.

The cartoonist visited John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their 1969 Bed-In for Peace in Montreal, and their testy exchange later appeared in the documentary film Imagine: John Lennon ( 1988 ).

Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair Hotel, introduced by Beatles press agent Derek Taylor ; a nervous Lennon took LSD before arriving, and neither star impressed the other.

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, who was of Irish descent, also spoke at a protest in New York in support of the victims and families of Bloody Sunday.

* 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.

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

* 8 p. m. EDT: Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music, a tribute to John Lennon that became a concert of prayer and healing for New York City to benefit the relief efforts, hosted by Kevin Spacey and featuring Dave Matthews, Moby, Stone Temple Pilots, Nelly Furtado, Shelby Lynne, Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, The Isley Brothers, Lou Reed, Marc Anthony, Natalie Merchant, Yolanda Adams, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, is held at Radio City Music Hall and simultaneously broadcast live on the TNT and WB networks.

Although he used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth.

When Lennon was invited to play with Frank Zappa at the Fillmore on June 5, 1971, Ono joined in as well.

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 ").

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

After their wedding, Lennon and Ono held a " Bed-In for Peace " in their honeymoon suite at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel in March 1969.

Accepting an award at the 2005 Q Awards, Ono mentioned that Lennon had once felt insecure about his songwriting, and asked her why other musicians " always cover Paul's songs, and never mine ".

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

* May 26 – June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their Bed-In at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.

* November 9 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery.