John Lennon was born at Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England at 6:30 p.m. on October 9, 1940. He was born at exact time the Germans were dropping bombs on Liverpool during World War II. When Lennon discovered music he was soon hypnotized by it and he soon only cared about it. Lennon learned to play the guitar and his first band the Black Jacks, was a group of his High School friends. Lennon soon changed the …showed first 75 words of 1872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1872 total…December 8, 1980, on their way back from a recording session, they were recording a single of their new album Double Fantasy, to their apartment in New York City, Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman. Many mourned the death of this great songwriter and musician. To sum it all up many music critics have called Lennon the most literate of all rock writers. Lennon took the happenings of the world and put it into his songs.