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.

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

In 1997, Ono compared Lennon to Mozart while McCartney, she said, more closely resembled his less-talented rival Salieri.

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.

Lennon said " Yes It Is " was " me trying a rewrite of ' This Boy ', but it didn't work "; it was released as the B-side of " Ticket to Ride " and was also on Beatles VI.

In an interview with ' BeatlesandBeyond ' Radio Show presenter Pete Dicks, Innes remembered that Lennon said ' you're going to have trouble with THAT one!

Such men as Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon —" The result ," said Chapman, " would be that I would be famous ; the result would be that my life would change and I would receive a tremendous amount of attention.

Lennon said that his family rarely had the radio on, unlike other members of The Beatles who grew up under its influence.

Lennon has said:

Paul McCartney said that Lennon gave instructions to Martin as to how he wished the orchestration to be scored, including singing most of the parts as a guide.

After recording the second version of the song, Lennon wanted to do something different with it, as Martin remembered: " He'd wanted it as a gentle dreaming song, but he said it had come out too raucous.

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

" Lennon said he was surprised at the idea that the song title was a hidden reference to LSD.

Elton John once said, " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a song that I never do in a set at a concert simply because it reminds me too much of John Lennon.

Although Lennon once said of the song that he " wasn't proud of that " and " I was just going through the motions ," in 1980 he described it as " pure, like a painting, a pure watercolour.

He has said that his early songwriting " was influenced by early Beatles-the sense of a three-minute guitar-pop song ", and early in his career The Cure's second single Boys Don't Cry was compared by British music paper Record Mirror to " John Lennon at 12 or 13 ".

"' Paul hit a clunker on the piano and said a naughty word ,' Lennon gleefully crowed, ' but I insisted we leave it in, buried just low enough so that it can barely be heard.

John Lennon said " Hey Jude " was " one of his masterpieces.

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.

John Lennon may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs ; Lennon said: " They say it came from an acetate that I gave to someone who then went and broadcast it as being an advance pressing or something.

Regarding Grand Royal, Lennon has said:

While Cynthia Lennon said that Magic Alex had " plied John and George with lurid stories " ...." without a single shred of evidence ".

" On The Tonight Show a few months later, Lennon said that " We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene ".

Julian Lennon has released a new album called Everything Changes on 3 October 2011.

One song from the sessions, " Everything Works if You Let It ", appeared on the soundtrack of Roadie, and Nielsen and Carlos participated in sessions for John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album Double Fantasy.

He appeared in a stunt for the ABC TV show The Chaser's War on Everything alongside Craig Reucassel that satirised the Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon.

In 2011, a track Guy had written with Julian Lennon entitled " Never Let You Go " was released on Lennon's comeback album " Everything Changes ".

* " 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.

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.

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.