“Music is everybody’s business. It’s only the publishers who think people own it” – John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon was an English singer and songwriter, known worldwide as one of the founding members of The Beatles.Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon formed his first band The Quarrymen being only a teenager, has been transformed into The Beatles in 1960. Lennon is an image of a rebel and a fighter for peace. All his labor is thoroughly imbued with subtle sarcasm and caustic wit.
Sales of Lennon’s album only in the United States jumped over 14 million units, and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll voted him eighth among the 100 Greatest Britons, and in 2008 Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth greatest singer of all time. In 1987 he was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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