JOHN LENNON
Pop star, composer, songwriter, and recording artist. John Winston Lennon
was born October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK, during a
German air raid in World War II.
When he was four years old, Lennon's parents separated and he ended up
living with his Aunt Mimi. John's father was a merchant seaman. He was not
present at his son's birth and did not see a lot of his son when he was
small.
Lennon's mother, Julia, remarried, but visited John and Mimi regularly. She
taught John how to play the banjo and the piano and purchased his first
guitar. John was devastated when Julia was fatally struck by a car driven by
an off-duty police officer in July 1958. Her death was one of the most
traumatic events in his life.
As a child, John was a prankster and he enjoyed getting in trouble. As a boy
and young adult, John enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. John'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.