History Music / JohnLennon

* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Shaved Fish'' in his lifetime. ''Lennon Legend'', ''The John Lennon Collection'', ''Power to the People: The Hits'' and others after his death.

* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise: Encouraging us to donate to One Laptop Per Child. It's a good cause and all, but still unnerving. A "'portable' computer with built-in monitor" [[http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html DID exist]] in John Lennon's lifetime. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET Two, if you count the Commodore PET]]. The screen size on the first one looks somewhat like the OLPC. They should have made a pun of that perhaps?

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John Winston Ono Lennon,[[note]]Born John Winston Lennon, Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Ono" as a middle name. He used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, but official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth as per British statute.[[/note]] [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever MBE]][[note]]Though John gave up his MBE medal, the British government never rescinded the title.[[/note]] (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as member of the revolutionary band Music/TheBeatles. His songwriting partnership with Music/PaulMcCartney remains the most successful in history.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''Some Time In New York City'' contains one album of new studio material and one album of live recordings.

* {{Jerkass}}: One of the most well documented examples in the history of music. His life is rife with episodes where he humiliated or abused someone. An OlderAndWiser Lennon would would eventually publicly recognise this and admit he disliked that side of himself.

* {{Jerkass}}: One of the most well documented examples in the history of music. His life is rife with episodes where he humiliated or abused someone.

* LennonSpecs

* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Far from a perfect example of this trope, as Lennon had more than his share of critical and popular recognition during his lifetime. Nevertheless, the years following his murder saw his less positive traits, and the unevenness of his post-Beatles career output, largely forgotten in favor of the mythical image (strongly, but not solely, cultivated by his widow) of Lennon as a gentle, saintly prophet of peace. As a result, when Albert Goldman published his negative, sensationalist ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_John_Lennon The Lives of John Lennon]]'' a mere eight years after the subject's death, he received, in addition to justly deserved criticism for his shoddy and selective research, numerous ''death threats'' from Lennon fans for daring to say ''anything'' negative about him (which, given the "prophet of peace" bit, is ComicallyMissingThePoint).
** He refers to this phenomenon in "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"
---> Everybody loves you when you're six feet in the ground

John Winston Ono Lennon,[[note]]Born John Winston Lennon, Lennon changed his name by deed poll on 22 April 1969, adding "Ono" as a middle name. He used the name John Ono Lennon thereafter, but official documents referred to him as John Winston Ono Lennon, since he was not permitted to revoke a name given at birth as per British statute.[[/note]] [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever MBE]][[note]]Though John gave up his MBE medal, the British government never rescinded the title.[[/note]] (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as member of the revolutionary band Music/TheBeatles. His songwriting partnership with Music/PaulMcCartney remains the most successful in history.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Imagine," by Lennon's own admission, "is virtually ''The Communist Manifesto''" set to music, "even though I'm not particularly a Communist and I do not belong to any movement". (It could arguably be considered more similar to the writings of [[UsefulNotes/{{Anarchism}} anarcho-communists]] like Pyotr Kropotkin and Emma Goldman, who took issue with some of Marx's ideas). Of the song, Lennon told ''NME'', "There is no real Communist state in the world; you must realise that. The Socialism I speak about ... [is] not the way some daft Russian might do it, or the Chinese might do it. That might suit them. Us, we should have a nice ... British Socialism."
** "Pornographic priestess" and "you let your knickers down" in "[[Music/MagicalMysteryTour I Am The Walrus]]"; the "tit tit tit tit" backing vocals in "[[Music/RubberSoul Girl]]" (not to mention the very clear reference to the inhalation of marijuana in the chorus); the drug references scattered throughout Music/TheBeatles' latter-day songs--he loved this trope. He was much more blatant in his solo career, but cases like "Tight A$" and "Meat City" still show a bit of it.

He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. Around this time he became notorious and controversial for his political and peace activism; his criticism of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar resulted in a three-year attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon left the music business to raise his infant son Sean, before returning in 1980. On December 8, 1980, Lennon was murdered in New York City by a LoonyFan shortly after completing a recording session. He was 40 years old.

He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. Around this time he became notorious and controversial for his political and peace activism; his criticism of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar resulted in a three-year attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon left the music business to raise his infant son Sean, before returning in 1980. On December 8, 1980, Lennon was murdered in New York City by a LoonyFan, shortly after completing a recording session. He was 40 years old.

He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. Around this time he became notorious and controversial for his political and peace activism; his criticism of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar resulted in a three-year attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon left the music business to raise his infant son Sean, before returning in 1980. On December 8, 1980, Lennon was murdered in New York City by a LoonyFan, Mark David Chapman, shortly after completing a recording session. He was 40 years old.

He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. Around this time he became notorious and controversial for his political and peace activism; his criticism of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar resulted in a three-year attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon left the music business to raise his infant son Sean, before returning in 1980. He was murdered by a LoonyFan, Mark David Chapman, on December 8, 1980.

He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. Around this time he became notorious and controversial for his political and peace activism; his criticism of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar resulted in a three-year attempt by the [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] administration to deport him. In 1975, Lennon left the music business to raise his infant son Sean, before returning in 1980. He was murdered by a LoonyFan on December 8, 1980.

* VoiceTypes: Baritone.
** He had probably the best vocal range of the four Beatles as he could hit most (but not all) of the top tenor parts that [=McCartney=] could (usually by screaming) and he could also reach down into the bass register, which was demonstrated on a few songs such as "Happiness is a Warm Gun". [=McCartney=] and Harrison were comfortable tenors while Starr rarely strayed out of baritone.

* TheDeadRiseToAdvertise: Encouraging us to donate to One Laptop Per Child. It's a good cause and all, but still unnerving. A "'portable' computer with built-in monitor" [[http://oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html DID exist]] in John Lennon's lifetime. The screen size looks somewhat like the OLPC. They should have made a pun of that perhaps?

He ended at #8 in ''Series/OneHundredGreatestBritons''.

* HistoryRepeats: When John saw for the first time a picture of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuda_Zenjirō Yasuda Zenjirō]], who was Music/YokoOno's grandfather, he supposedly said "[[{{Reincarnation}} that's me in a former life]]", to which she responded "don't say that. [[TemptingFate He was assassinated]]".

* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Song]]: "How Do You Sleep?", from 1971's ''Imagine'', directed toward Music/PaulMcCartney at the depth of their mutual hatred. A response to Paul's "Too Many People" from ''Music/{{Ram}}'', released earlier the same year. (The two buried the hatchet a few years later.)

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-->--"Working Class Hero" - ''Music/JohnLennonPlasticOnoBand''

John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE[[note]]Though John gave up his MBE medal, the British government never rescinded the title.[[/note]] (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was a member of the revolutionary band Music/TheBeatles. He left The Beatles in late 1969 to focus on his solo career with his wife Music/YokoOno. He was murdered by a LoonyFan on December 8, 1980.

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[[caption-width-right:350: ''"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"'']]

* GreatestHitsAlbum: ''Shaved Fish'' in his lifetime. ''Lennon Legend'', ''The John Lennon Collection'', and others after his death, most recently ''Power to the People: The Hits''.

** Several other artists released mourning songs for John, including Music/PaulMcCartney's "Here Today", Music/EltonJohn's "Empty Garden", Music/JoanBaez's "Sgt. Pepper's Band", Music/{{Queen}}'s "Life Is Real", and, most recently, Music/BobDylan's "Roll On John". Music/StevieNicks says that "Edge of Seventeen" is for both Lennon and her Uncle Jonathan who had died suddenly of cancer the same week.

* RaceFetish: He divorced his English wife for the Japanese Yoko Ono
** He even dated a Chinese American woman named May Pang when he and Ono briefly separated.

!!! John Lennon is the {{Trope Namer|s}} for:

!!! "Nobody told me there'd be tropes like these...":

[[caption-width-right:350:John Lennon during his time with Music/TheBeatles.]]