John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon MBE (born Liverpool, UK, 9 October, 1940; died New York, 8 December 1980) rose to fame with the pop group, The Beatles, a 1960's sensation which, in John's own words was, "more popular than Jesus." After the break-up of The Beatles, he had, at first, a faltering music career which began to bloom again in the beginning of the 1970's. Lennon's life was cut tragical short when a crazed fan, Mark David Chapman, shot him dead outside his New York apartment on the 8th December 1980.

John married Yoko Ono in London on November 9, 1966. Yoko, twice divorced, already had a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, by her second husband. She was pregnant at the time she married John, but the baby miscarried. John and Yoko worked closely together both musically and in a series of political campaigns. They were separated for fifteen months in 1973-4; in 1975, Ono gave birth to a son, Sean Taro Ono Lennon.

Yoko Ono donated the rights to Lennon's song 'Imagine' to Amnesty International.