" When Lennon's wife returned home, she found Ono wearing her bathrobe and drinking tea with Lennon who simply said, " Oh, hi.

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.

Lennon returned to the subject in the lyrics of three of his subsequent songs: in the 1968 Beatles song " Glass Onion " he sings " now here's another clue for you all — the walrus was Paul ", ; in the third verse of " Come Together " he sings the line " he bag production, he got walrus gumboot ", and in his 1970 solo song " God ", admits " I was the walrus, but now I'm John.

In 1966, Voormann returned to London and was asked by Lennon to design the sleeve for the album Revolver.

After going to the cinema and being inspired by the film Ordinary People, Chapman returned to Hawaii, telling his wife he had been obsessed with killing Lennon but had snapped out of it.

Lennon and Pang returned to New York and Spector disappeared with these session tapes.

In June 1974, Lennon and Pang returned to live in New York City.

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.

The band was initially started as a side-project by Yuya Uchida when he returned to Japan after visiting his friend John Lennon in England in the mid 1960s, where he was introduced to various upcoming artists such as Cream and Jimi Hendrix.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono later returned with The Plastic Ono Band to record " Cold Turkey " featuring Eric Clapton on lead guitar.

After John Lennon's murder, Starr no longer felt safe in the US and returned home to England to live at Tittenhurst Park, which Starr purchased from Lennon in 1973.

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 ).

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

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!

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

After 1991, Lennon left the music business for several years.

In 2007 Lennon sold off a " significant " share of his stake in his father's catalogue of work, in exchange for an undisclosed sum, and the agreement that the purchasing company, Primary Wave, would market and promote his new material.

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.

* 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 '.

Lennon said, after talking with Trudeau for 50 minutes, that Trudeau was " a beautiful person " and that " if all politicians were like Pierre Trudeau, there would be world peace.

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 ).

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.

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.

* 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.

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 !).

is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist, known for her marriage to John Lennon ( 1969 – 1980 ) and her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking.

After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles ' last recorded album, Abbey Road.

In May 1968, while his wife Cynthia was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit.

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.

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 !").

Pang also arranged for Julian Lennon to visit his father for the first time in four years.

Lennon and Pang were also planning on visiting Paul and Linda McCartney in New Orleans in February 1975, where Wings were recording the Venus and Mars album, but Lennon reconciled with Ono the day before the planned visit, after Ono said she had a new cure for Lennon's smoking habit.

* May Pang: Lennon planned to visit McCartney in 1974

During a January 1967 visit to Knole Park in Sevenoaks to shoot a promotional film for Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane, John Lennon stopped into a Westerham antiques shop and purchased a poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal, which later inspired the song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

A young John Lennon walked across the course to visit his girlfriend and future wife, Cynthia Powell, who lived in Hoylake.

During 1970 and 1971, Lennon and Ono began to visit the United States, first for Primal Therapy at Dr. Arthur Janov's Primal Institute in California, then for child custody hearings over Ono's daughter Kyoko Chan Cox, in Houston and New York City.

) Lennon was the last of The Beatles that Starr had yet to visit and – fresh from his musical re-awakening, having just released Double Fantasy – Lennon was eager to meet with Starr.

Landmarks of his tenure as Dean included the dedication of the cathedral by Elizabeth II in October 1978 ( despite some final details still remaining uncompleted ), a memorial service for John Lennon in 1981, and a controversial visit from Pope John Paul II in 1982.

" John Lennon: Ringo's Right, We Can't Tour Again ", New Musical Express, 7 June 1969, reproduced by Crawdaddy !, 2007.

On March 20, 1969, Ono married John Lennon.

Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding " Ono " as a middle name.

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.

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

John Lennon later gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to " The Word ", which were subsequently reproduced in Cage's book Notations published in 1969.

File: JohnLennonpeace. jpg | John Lennon rehearsing Give Peace A Chance, in Canada, 1969

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

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 ".

* John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their first Bed-In for Peace between March 25 and March 31, 1969 at the Amsterdam Hilton in Room 902.

John Lennon rehearses Give Peace a Chance, 1969.

McCartney's demos include " One and One Is Two " ( 1964, eventually an uncharted single for Mike Shannon and the Strangers ), " Step Inside Love " ( 1968, given to Cilla Black ), " Goodbye " ( 1969, given to Mary Hopkin ), " Come and Get it " ( 1969, given to Badfinger ), and early versions of " We Can Work It Out " ( partially taped over by Lennon ) and " Michelle ".

In 1969, The Beatles were in need of financial and managerial direction and Lennon was introduced to Allen Klein through Mick Jagger, as Klein was managing The Rolling Stones at the time.

It was active from October 1968 until June 1969, and only two albums were released on the label, one by Lennon and Ono ( Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions ) and one by Harrison ( Electronic Sound ).

Zapple was shut down in June 1969 by Klein, apparently with the backing of Lennon.

* On The Beatles ' album, Abbey Road ( 1969 ), John Lennon sings, on the song " Polythene Pam ", " She's the kind of a girl that makes the News of the World, yes you could say she was attractively built.

As a student leader in June 1969 he met John Lennon and drove him around Ottawa while he was hosting him for a " peace conference " he was holding.

* Bed-In, peace campaigns by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969