John Lennon Research by

John Lennon Research by https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47 en-us 2018-11-19 23:40:31 UTC 2018-11-20 23:30:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png John Lennon on peace rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306157145 2018-11-20 00:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306157145 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306157666 Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one]]> 2018-11-20 00:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306157666 source- Wikipedia rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306158340 His parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.]]> 2018-11-20 00:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306158340 wikipedia rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306456165 Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic poet/musician. But I cannot be what I am not ... I was the one who all the other boys' parents—including Paul's father—would say, 'Keep away from him' ... The parents instinctively recognised I was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their children, which I did. I did my best to disrupt every friend's home ... Partly out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home ... but I did ... There were five women that were my family. Five strong, intelligent, beautifulwomen, five sisters. One happened to be my mother. [She] just couldn't deal with life. She was the youngest and she had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and I ended up living with her elder sister. Now those women were fantastic ... And that was my first feminist education ... I would infiltrate the other boys' minds. I could say, "Parents are not gods because I don't live with mine and, therefore, I know."]]> 2018-11-20 17:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306456165 source biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306460868 John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, during a German air raid in World War II.]]> 2018-11-20 17:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306460868 biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306461369 As a child, Lennon was a prankster and he enjoyed getting into trouble. As a boy and young adult, he enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. Lennon's school master thought that he could go to an art school for college, since he did not get good grades in school but had artistic talent.]]> 2018-11-20 17:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306461369 biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306462535 Lennon's remark that the band was "more popular than Jesus now" incited denunciations and Beatles record bonfires in the U.S. Bible belt. ]]> 2018-11-20 17:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306462535 biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306462947 Lennon and Ono invented a form of peace protest by staying in bed while being filmed and interviewed, and their single "Give Peace a Chance" (1969), recorded under the name "the Plastic Ono Band," became a national anthem of sorts for pacifists.]]> 2018-11-20 17:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306462947 biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306463477 Lennon and Ono moved to the United States in September 1971, but were constantly threatened with deportation by the Nixon Administration. Lennon was told that he was being kicked out of the country due to his 1968 marijuana conviction in Britain, but the singer believed that he was being removed because of his activism against the unpopular Vietnam War]]> 2018-11-20 17:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306463477 encyclopedia brittancica rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464147 The Beatles were essentially a joint venture between practical pop adept Paul McCartney and alienated rock-and-roll rebel Lennon, but, as a disruptive cultural force, they always bore Lennon’s stamp. ]]> 2018-11-20 17:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464147 biography.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464635 "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me".

It’s safe to say that, by this time, John had either rejected Christianity outright or had at least developed a very cynical view of it.

]]> 2018-11-20 17:55:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464635 encyclopedia Britannica rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464937 Lennon’s genius encompassed writing and the visual arts, the only field in which he received formal training. His natural gifts in both were considerable, but in the end he proved a minor humorist and a casual if indelible cartoonist. In music, he had less inborn facility, though his paternal grandfather worked for years as a blackface minstrel. But music was where he put his substance]]> 2018-11-20 17:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306464937 encyclopedia brittanca rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306465855 Lennon’s most enduring political commitment was to feminism. When he and Ono separated in the fall of 1973, he spent a “lost weekend” of more than a year drinking and making highly uneven music in Los Angeles. ]]> 2018-11-20 17:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306465855 encyclopedia brittanica rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306466146 their [John and Yoko's] marriage projected as powerful an image as their activism had.]]> 2018-11-20 17:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306466146 hollowverse.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306467712 Lennon was baptized, as most young English children are, in an Anglican/Episcopalian church. However, by the time he was a teenager, Lennon was banned from the parish church his family attended for laughing out loud at a sermon.]]> 2018-11-20 18:02:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306467712 hallowverse rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306468641 During the writing of The Beatles’ album, The White Album, John and the rest of the band studied under the Hindu yogi Maharishi Mahesh, who heavily influenced much of The Beatles’ music and, to some extent, the spirituality of The Beatles themselves. However, while George Harrison was particularly taken by Indian mysticism, John ended up thinking the Maharishi was a fraud who used The Beatles for his own purposes of fortune and fame]]> 2018-11-20 18:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306468641 Hallowverse rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306469113 Politically, Lennon was unattached and actually quite radical. Returning again to the lyrics of imagine, Lennon sang:

Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace.

]]> 2018-11-20 18:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306469113 hollowverse rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306469680 the effect of the hippie movement of the 1960’s, Lennon said:
"The people who are in control and in power, and the class system and the whole bullshit bourgeois scene is exactly the same except that there are a lot of middle-class kids with long hair walking around in trendy clothes… The same bastards are in control, the same people are running everything".]]> 2018-11-20 18:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306469680 hollowverse rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306470213 Lennon was a radical–a radical who saw through politics for what it is, a struggle for power and wealth at the cost of human lives and freedom. We might call him an anarchist or a libertarian.]]> 2018-11-20 18:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306470213 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306470476 John Lennon was an atheist in the '70s, though in 1980 in his interview with "Playboy" he said that we should "thank God or whatever it is that's up there" for surviving the '60s and '70s, which suggests he was agnostic towards the end]]> 2018-11-20 18:09:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306470476 history.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306471523 The 1960s were one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history, marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, political assassinations and the emerging "generation gap."]]> 2018-11-20 18:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306471523 adage.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306471972 Political events of the 1970s also contributed to the decade's unrest. The Watergate scandal and subsequent resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, as well as the divisiveness caused by the Vietnam War, resulted in a growing lack of support for and suspicion of the government.]]> 2018-11-20 18:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306471972 wikipedia rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306474101 The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.]]> 2018-11-20 18:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306474101 john lennon peace movement website rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306476116 John took a very active role in trying to persuade people to protest against the Vietnam War, by doing many different things. He usually worked with his wife, Yoko Ono. Together they peacefully protested against the Vietnam War and asked the world for peace.]]> 2018-11-20 18:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306476116 wikipedia rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306476747 As the Vietnam War raged in 1969, John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace, one at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam and one at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal, each of which were intended to be non-violent protests against wars, and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace.]]> 2018-11-20 18:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306476747 huffington post rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306478149 Following the Bed-Ins, Lennon and Ono became even more activist-minded, lending their support to the plight of the working class by way of a shipbuilders’ work-in, railing against the Vietnam War, voicing their discontent over the brutal murders of 14 unarmed civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland (memorialized in “Luck of the Irish” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday”), bemoaning the death toll from the uprising at Attica Prison and holding forth with leading American peace activists of the day such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman — all the while, using music as the medium for their message. Released in October 1971, Lennon’s Imagine album would become his musical calling card for world peace.]]> 2018-11-20 18:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306478149 popmatters.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306479618 Lennon was direct and open about the psychological trials of a working-class kid as he navigates a class-ridden society. To Ali and Blackburn, he related: "I mean we had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me cause I could never keep my mouth shut and I always had to be drunk and pilled to counteract the pressure. It was really hell." ]]> 2018-11-20 18:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306479618 popmatters.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306480603 It was also during the early seventies that Lennon began to express a deeper commitment to the concerns of oppressed people of color. Lennon backed both Native-American and African-American rights. He expressed a human sympathy for the African-American struggle and an understanding of the need for black consciousness.]]> 2018-11-20 18:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306480603 popmatters.com rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481052 In a 1972 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, Lennon stated support for the 10-point program of the Black Panthers and their faith in self-defense. The 10-point program encompassed calls for black self-determination, a decent education for black children free of racist historical bias as well as "land, bread, housing… justice and peace." (Huey P. Newton, War Against the Panthers, 1966) The Panthers were criminalized and pathologized by the White Establishment. ]]> 2018-11-20 18:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481052 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481562 2018-11-20 18:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481562 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481785 2018-11-20 18:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306481785 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306482574 Many in the peace movement within the U.S. were students, mothers, or anti-establishment hippies. Opposition grew with participation by the African-American civil rights, women's liberation, and Chicano movements, and sectors of organized labor.]]> 2018-11-20 18:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306482574 Wikipedia rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306484222 Many artists during the 1960s and 1970s opposed the war and used their creativity and careers to visibly oppose the war. Writers and poets opposed to involvement in the war included Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and Robert Bly. Their pieces often incorporated imagery based on the tragic events of the war as well as the disparity between life in Vietnam and life in the United States. Visual artists Ronald Haeberle, Peter Saul, and Nancy Spero, among others, used war equipment, like guns and helicopters, in their works while incorporating important political and war figures, portraying to the nation exactly who was responsible for the violence]]> 2018-11-20 18:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306484222 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306484870 n April1970, Nixon expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.]]> 2018-11-20 18:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306484870 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306485828 2018-11-20 18:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306485828 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306486220 https://www.spin.com/2010/12/archive-1975-john-lennon-interview/]]> 2018-11-20 18:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306486220 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559240 2018-11-20 23:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559240 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559368 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/11778250/Hiroshima-70-years-on-one-survivor-remembers-the-horror-of-the-worlds-first-atomic-bombing.html]]> 2018-11-20 23:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559368 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559426 2018-11-20 23:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559426 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559484 2018-11-20 23:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559484 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559815 2018-11-20 23:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306559815 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560021 http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2014/03/KeystoneHulton-ArchiveGetty.jpg]]> 2018-11-20 23:20:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560021 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560115 2018-11-20 23:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560115 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560860 2018-11-20 23:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306560860 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306561040 2018-11-20 23:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306561040 rosawebster333 https://padlet.com/rosawebster333/y5t54zyxwu47/wish/306561170 The 1960s were a decade of revolution and change in politics, music and society around the world. It started in the United States and the United Kingdom, and spread to continental Europe and other parts of the globe.

The 1960s were an era of protest. In the civil rights movement blacks and whites protested against the unfair treatment of races. Towards the end of the decade more and more Americans protested against the war in Vietnam. Many people in the United States thought that Americans had no reason to fight in war that was so far away from home.

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