50 Interesting Facts about John Lennon

In 2017, John Lennon's song 'Imagine' was named ‘Song of the Century’ by the National Music Publishers Association.

2. In 1962, a special Gibson guitar of which only two were made, was flown from the USA to England for Lennon and George Harrison. He used it for a year surpassing swapping it with Harrison in 1963, without which it vanished. Forty years later, it was discovered that someone brought it into a music shop from where its current owner purchased the guitar. Its current owner discovered that it belonged to Lennon without reading a magazine article, without which that guitar sold for $2.4 million.

3. David Bowie's song 'Fame' was co-written by John Lennon. 'Fame' was Bowie's first number 1 single on the US Billboard Hot 100.

4. John Lennon was born in the middle of an air raid, and his mom was forced to hibernate in doorways to stave the shrapnel from falling bombs.

5. Before they worked the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison had a wreath tabbed 'Japage 3.'

John Lennon once received a letter from a student telling him his teacher made them unriddle "The Beatles" lyrics. Amused by this, he composed, "I Am The Walrus" with intentionally troublemaking and meaningless lyrics to thwart those who tried to unriddle their songs.

7. According to John Lennon, the ticket mentioned in the 1965 Beatles hit "Ticket to Ride" refers not to an very ticket for travel, but refers to cards carried by prostitutes in 1960s Hamburg to indicate a wipe snout of health.

8. There is disagreement over whether John Lennon or Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles' 1965 song "In My Life." Mathematicians engaged in a detailed statistical wringer based on other Beatles' songs, presented findings that Lennon probably wrote it.

9. John Lennon tried to convince Paul McCartney to drill a slum in his skull as part of a practice tabbed trepanning explaining "All you'd have to do is just sink a little slum in your skull and it lets the pressure off." Paul replied "John, you try it and let me know how it goes."

10. In August 1966, a few months without John Lennon personal that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus," a radio station in Texas, USA had a "Beatles bonfire" and burned thousands of Beatles records in front of a crowd. The next day, the station's transmitter tower was struck by lightning.

John Lennon repeatedly denied that the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is well-nigh LSD and that he got the inspiration for the song when his son brought home a drawing of his friend Lucy who was in the sky with diamonds.

12. For the Rolling Stones, 1967 single "We Love You," John Lennon and Paul McCartney provided uncredited valuables vocals.

13. John Lennon never said, "Ringo isn't the weightier drummer in the world. He isn't plane the weightier drummer in the Beatles." It was uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983, three years without Lennon's death.

14. In 1968, John Lennon, without taking a large value of LSD, tabbed an emergency meeting of The Beatles to inform them that he was in fact, Jesus Christ reincarnated.

15. In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace, which were intended to be non-violent protests versus wars and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace.

John Lennon was offered the role of Jesus in the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" but would only winnow on the condition that Yoko played Mary Magdalene. The offer was then withdrawn.

17. John Lennon purposely tuned the D string low on his guitar making it "slightly out of tune" to make it recognizable on mono recordings from the other Beatles.

18. John Lennon wrote the Beatles song 'Dear Prudence' for Prudence Farrow (Mia's sister) while studying Transcendental Meditation in India. The group became worried well-nigh her considering she spent the majority of her time vacated in her room practicing meditation, so John wrote her a song to persuade her to socialize more.

19. Not long without John Lennon received his first guitar, his aunt Mimi (his guardian at the time) told him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it." Three years later, The Beatles formed.

20. John Lennon originally wrote "Come Together" as a wayfarers song for Timothy Leary, who was running for governor of California at the time. When the song didn't work out, Lennon took it to the Beatles. It was the last song all four Beatles cut together.

John Lennon loved the Beatles Parody wreath ‘The Rutles.’ It was created by Monty Python's Eric Idle for a BBC sketch. He loved it so much that he refused to hand when the preview tape.

22. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once visited an wizard who told them John would be shot and die on an island. They were so disturbed that they canceled their extended Greek Isles vacation. Ten years later, he died on Manhattan Island.

23. The medals John Lennon wore on the imbricate of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Wreath was owned by the Grandfather of drummer Pete Weightier who was kicked out of the wreath years prior.

24. John Lennon suffered from bulimia. He loved eating, fantasized well-nigh food, and kept snacks subconscious in his various homes. But he hated the feeling of stuff full, so he would gravity himself to vomit. During Beatlemania, his weight fluctuated wildly.

25. The B 52's song "Rock Lobster" inspired John Lennon to go when into making music in 1980, considering it reminded him of his wife Yoko's work.