Celebrating John Lennon 70th Birthday

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England. In the mid-1950s he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles. In the late 1960s John began performing and making albums with his second wife Yoko Ono, as the Beatles began to break up. Lennon was murdered in 1980 by Mark David Chapman, a onetime Beatles fan angry and jealous over John's ongoing career.