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| + | '''John Lennon''', full name John Winston Ono Lennon (1940-1980) was a member of the [[Beatles]]. |
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| | + | Though none of the [[Beatles]] were as successful on their one as they were as a group, John Lennon was considered by many to be have the most varied talent. He struggled with a drug addiction, however, and several of his songs related to his habit, such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" with the [[Beatles]] and "Cold Turkey" on his own. |
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| | + | Lennon was the most outspoken among the [[Beatles]] on political issues, advocating pacifism during the [[Vietnam War]]. At one point the [[United States]] government investigated him. |
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| | + | After a self-imposed break from music to focus on his family and raising his young son Sean, Lennon produced a new album with his wife [[Yoko Ono]] in 1980, entitled "Double Fantasy." Tragically, less than a month after its release Lennon was shot dead by a crazed fan named Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980. |
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| | + | Lennon's most famous individual work is anti-religious, anti-war, anti-establishment song entitled "Imagine", where there is "above us only sky." |
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| | + | He remains a hero in [[Britain]], where he was ranked in the top 10 of the 2002 "100 Greatest Britons" poll sponsored by the BBC. |
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| − | '''John Lennon''', full name John Winston Ono Lennon (1940-1980) was a member of the [[Beatles]]. | + | == Religious views == |
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| | + | Lennon's famous quote in criticism of Christianity was in 1966: |
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| | + | :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. |
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| | + | After Christians worldwide criticized his attitude, Lennon held a press conference on August 11, 1966 in Chicago at which he said: |
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| | + | :I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I was not knocking it. I was not saying we are greater or better. |
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