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.

Lennon said that " Everything from the song is from that poster, except the horse wasn't called Henry.

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 ".

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.

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.

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.