John Lennon

John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

John Lennon: He was born at Liverpool, England. He was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles,one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. He died on 8 December 1980, when Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at theentrance to the building.

Yoko Ono: She was born at Tokyo, Japan. She is a Japanese artist, author, and peace activist. She was the second wife of John Lennon who devotes part of his work.

Twoversions exist of how Lennon met Ono. According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introducedby gallery owner John Dunbar. Lennon was intrigued by Ono's "Hammer A Nail": patrons hammered a nail into a wooden board, creating the art piece. Although the exhibition had not yet begun, Lennonwanted to hammer a nail into the clean board, but Ono stopped him. Dunbar asked her, "Don't you know who this is? He's a millionaire! He might buy it." Ono had supposedly not heard of The Beatles, butrelented on condition that Lennon pay her five shillings, to which Lennon replied, "I'll give you an imaginary five shillings and hammer an imaginary nail in."

The second version, told by McCartney,is that in late 1965, Ono was in London compiling original musical scores for a book John Cage was working on, Notations, but McCartney declined to give her any of his own manuscripts for the book,suggesting that Lennon might oblige. When asked, Lennon gave Ono the original handwritten lyrics to "The Word". Ono began telephoning and calling at Lennon's home, and when his wife asked for anexplanation, he explained that Ono was only trying to obtain money for her "avant-garde bullshit". On May 1968, while his wife was on holiday in Greece, Lennon invited Ono to visit. They spent the night...