Lennon开始个人音乐发展其实是始于1968年的“Unfinished Music, No. 1: Two Virgins”。这是一张他与大野洋子合作的实验噪音专辑。可这张唱片最引人注目的却是封面上列侬与洋子赤裸身体的照片。他们于69年3月20日在直布罗陀结婚。10月出版了“Unfinished Music, No. 2: Life with the Lions”封面上则是洋子怀孕期间两人在医院相对的照片——列侬在这段时间一直陪伴在洋子身旁，直到她后来的流产。随后就是“ The Wedding Album”包括那首“Give Peace A Chance”。在这个时期列侬、洋子与吉他手.Eric Clapton、贝司手 Klaus Voormann 、鼓手 Alan White组成了the Plastic Ono Band。出版了有关列侬与毒瘾的斗争的“Cold Turkey”，但销量却不尽人意。为此列侬退回了女王颁发的帝国勋章，同时抗议英国政府对越战的漠视态度。
70年2月发行了旋律优美的“Instant Karma”。两个月后Paul McCartney便宣布Beatles解散。离开乐队的列侬在1971年1月与the Plastic Ono Band发行了给人强烈震撼的“John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band”。其中充满了列侬对少年、青年时承受的烦恼、困惑毫无掩饰的忏悔般表白。为逝去的母亲而做的“Mother”。满是嘲讽的“Working Class Hero”： “'A working class hero is something to be, if you want to be a hero then just follow me”。但他不正是个英雄吗！还有启示录一样的“God”那一连串的“I don’t believe……”最后的“'I just believe in me, Yoko and me, and that's reality”。强烈的自我也好、无所谓的一起也好。与过去告别的列侬呈现给我们的，是完全不同，却依然精彩的音乐。
在推出了又一支政治抗议性的单曲“Power To The People”后，列侬移居纽约。1971年秋天另一张出众的专辑“Imagine”完成了。同名冠军单曲“Imagine”优雅的曲调拌着理想主义的歌词让这首歌成了一个世纪的祈祷。在这张专辑里也倾注的列侬愤怒的政治热情。72年的“Sometime In New York City”则充满了政治歌曲，大量的尖锐的政治问题。攻击 Paul McCartney的“How Do You Sleep”，对政客们的怨恨的“Gimme Some Truth”以及列侬对激进分子如 Abbie Hoffman,，Jerry Rubin与John Sinclair的支持。
这之后开始了列侬于美国移民局无休止的争执。移民局因为非法拥有大麻拒绝向他发放绿卡，并于73年要将他驱逐出境。列侬对移民局则开始了针锋相对的攻击。在73年末发行了“Mind Games”，讲出了他与洋子的矛盾。74年列侬离开了洋子到了落山基开始了他的“Lost Weekends”。不停的与一些音乐名流如David Bowie, Elton John, Harry Nilsson, Keith Moon聚会，沉浸在药品与酒精中。
在74年11月出版了婚姻题材的“Walls and Bridges”，并拿下了排行榜第一。年末，列侬与洋子从新走到了一起，并于11月在麦迪逊广场花园与Elton John进行了他的最后一场演唱会。
75年的专辑“Rock’n’Roll”其中是他翻唱自己最喜欢的一些早期摇滚歌曲，如：“Slippin’ And Slidin’”, “Peggy Sue”“Stand By Me'”。当年10月7日，法庭取消了对他的驱逐令。76年夏天，他终于得到了绿卡。在十月儿子Sean出生后，列侬离开了音乐专心做起了好丈夫、好父亲。只是由洋子打理一下他们微不足道的生意。
五年后的1980年夏天，列侬重新回来了。与Geffen公司签定了新的和约，并带来了迅速登上各大排行榜首的新专辑“Double Fantasy”。然而就是在全世界的乐迷们欢呼列侬的回归时。列侬的生命却在12月8日在曼哈顿的公寓门口消逝在了名叫Mark David Chapman的男子枪口下
列侬之死标志着７０年代的结束。
John Winston Ono Lennon, (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for The Beatles. His creative career also included the roles of solo musician, political activist, artist, actor and author. As half of the legendary Lennon-McCartney songwriting team, he heavily influenced the development of rock music, leading it towards more serious and political messages.
He is recognised as one of the greatest musical icons of the 20th century; and his songs, such as "Imagine" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", are often ranked among the best songs in popular music history. In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, and the British public voted Lennon into 8th place.
Early years 早年
Lennon was born in Liverpool on the evening of October 9, 1940 during a period of much turmoil as the UK was heavily engaged in World War II. Both of his parents had musical backgrounds and experience, though neither pursued them seriously. Lennon lived with his parents in Liverpool until his father Alfred (nicknamed Alf, and later "Freddy"), a merchant seaman, walked out on the family when John was five years old. His mother, Julia, then decided that she was unable to care for her son, and so gave him to her sister Mimi. Lennon lived with Aunt Mimi and her husband George at Mendips, 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool throughout the rest of his childhood and adolescence. Like much of the population of Liverpool, Lennon had some Irish heritage; his grandfather, James Lennon, having been born in Dublin in 1858.
Lennon developed severe myopia as he grew up, and was obliged to wear glasses in order to see clearly. During his early Beatle career, Lennon wore contacts or prescription sunglasses (or simply "toughed it out" without them). In 1966, on the set of How I Won The War, Lennon was issued a pair of National Health spectacles. He continued to wear these round, wire-rimmed glasses which became part of his iconic public image. Although John lived apart from his mother he still kept in contact with her through regular visits, and during this time Julia was responsible for introducing her son to a lifelong interest in music by teaching him how to play the banjo. On July 15, 1958 - when Lennon was 17 - his mother was killed after she was struck by a car driven by a drunken off-duty police officer, and he had to go to the morgue to identify her body. Julia's death was one of the factors that cemented his friendship with Paul McCartney, who had lost his own mother to breast cancer in 1956, when Paul was 14. Years later, Lennon wrote the songs "Julia", "Mother" and "My Mummy's Dead" regarding his mother, as well as naming his firstborn son, Julian, after her.
Though failing in grammar school, Lennon was accepted into the Liverpool College of Art with help from his school's headmaster and Aunt Mimi, and it was there that he met his future wife, Cynthia Powell. However, Lennon steadily grew to hate the conformity of art school, which proved to be little different from his earlier school experience, and ultimately dropped out. He instead devoted himself to music, inspired by American Rock 'n' Roll and singers like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly. He'd started a skiffle band in grammar school called the Quarry Men (after his alma mater, Quarry Bank). With the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, the band changed to playing rock 'n' roll, taking the name "Johnny and the Moondogs", followed by "The Silver Beetles" (a tribute to Buddy Holly's Crickets), which was later shortened to The Beatles. He married Powell in 1962, after she became pregnant with Julian.
Role in the Beatles “披头四”岁月
Lennon had a profound influence on rock and roll and in expanding the genre's boundaries during the 1960s. He is widely considered, along with songwriting partner Paul McCartney, as one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians of the 20th century. Many of the songs written by Lennon, however, are more introspective — often in the first person — and personal than McCartney's. His most surreal pieces of songwriting, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus", are fine examples of his unique style. Lennon's partnership in songwriting with McCartney many times involved him in complementing and counterbalancing McCartney's upbeat, positive outlook with the other side of the coin, as one of their songs, "Getting Better" demonstrates:
McCartney: I have to admit it's getting better, a little better all the time.
Lennon: It can't get much worse!
Lennon often spoke his mind freely and the press was used to querying him on a wide range of subjects. On March 4, 1966 in an interview for the London Evening Standard with Maureen Cleave, who was a friend of his, Lennon made an off the cuff remark regarding religion. The article was printed and nothing came of it, until five months later when a Teen magazine reprinted the words "I don't know what will go first—Rock and Roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now," right on the front cover.
A firestorm of protest swelled from the southern Bible Belt area, as conservative groups publicly burned Beatles records and memorabilia. Radio stations banned Beatles music and concert venues cancelled performances. Even The Vatican got involved with a public denouncement of Lennon's comments. On August 11, 1966, the Beatles held a press conference in Chicago, Illinois, in order to address the growing furore.
Lennon: "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way."
Reporter: "Some teenagers have repeated your statements - "I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What do you think about that?"
Lennon: "Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
Reporter: "But are you prepared to apologise?"
Lennon: "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
The governing members of the Vatican accepted his apology and the furor eventually died down, but constant Beatlemania, mobs, crazed teenagers, and now a press ready to tear them to pieces over any quote was too much to handle. The Beatles soon decided to stop touring, and indeed, never performed a scheduled concert again. From this point onward the Beatles were a studio band (perhaps the first ever). Freed from the problem of having to compose music they could recreate live on stage, they could explore the technological limits of music and create unique and original sounds.
On November 9, 1966, after their final tour ended and right after he had wrapped up filming a minor role in the film How I Won the War, Lennon visited an art exhibit of Yoko Ono's at the Indica art gallery in London. Lennon began his love affair with Ono in 1968 after returning from India and leaving his estranged wife Cynthia, who filed for divorce later that year. Lennon and Ono were from then on inseparable in public and private, as well as during Beatles recording sessions. The press was extremely unkind to Ono, posting a series of unflattering articles about her, one even going so far as to call her "ugly." This infuriated Lennon, who rallied around his new partner and said publicly that there was no John and Yoko, but that they were one person, JohnAndYoko. These developments led to friction with the other members of the group, and heightened the tension during the 1968 White Album sessions.
Some Beatles fans blame Ono for the Beatles' breakup, but the band had been growing apart almost immediately after the death of their manager Brian Epstein in 1967. Lennon in particular cited Epstein as the glue which had held them all together. He resolved disputes among members, balanced their egos AND-- above all-- handled the money; in his absence (together with the influence of drugs, a desire to do more work independently, outside friends, alternate collaborating partners, new marriages/relationships and the disastrous Apple Corps venture), the Beatles' interpersonal relationships simply disintegrated.
At the end of 1968, Lennon and Ono performed as Dirty Mac on The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus.
During his last two years as a member of The Beatles, Lennon spent much of his time with Ono on public displays protesting the Vietnam War. He sent back the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) he received from Queen Elizabeth II during the height of Beatlemania "in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing and support of America in Vietnam," adding as a joke, "as well as "Cold Turkey" slipping down the charts." On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married in Gibraltar, and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam in a "Bed-In" for peace. They followed up their honeymoon with another "Bed-In" for peace this time held in Montreal at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. During the second "Bed-In" the couple recorded "Give Peace a Chance" which would go on to become an international anthem for the peace movement. They were mainly patronised as a couple of eccentrics by the media, yet they did a great deal for the peace movement, as well as for other pet causes, such as women's liberation and racial harmony. As with the "Bed-In" campaign, Lennon and Ono usually advocated their causes with whimsical demonstrations, such as Bagism, first introduced during a Vienna press conference. Shortly after, Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono to show his "oneness" with his new wife. Lennon wrote "The Ballad of John and Yoko" about his marriage and the subsequent press it generated.
The failed Get Back/Let It Be recording/filming sessions did nothing to improve relations within the band. After both Lennon and Ono were injured in the summer of 1969 in a car accident in Scotland, Lennon arranged for Ono to be constantly with him in the studio (including having a full-sized bed rolled in) as he worked on The Beatles' last album, Abbey Road. While the group managed to hang together to produce one last superior musical work, soon thereafter business issues related to Apple Corps came between them.
Lennon decided to quit the Beatles but was talked out of saying anything publicly. Phil Spector's involvement in trying to revive the Let It Be material then drove a further wedge between Lennon (who supported Spector) and McCartney (who opposed him). Though the split would only become legal some time later, Lennon and McCartney's partnership had come to a bitter end. McCartney soon made a press announcement, declaring he had quit the Beatles, and promoting his new solo record.
Solo career 单飞生涯
Of the four former Beatles, Lennon had perhaps the most varied recording career. While he was still a Beatle, Lennon and Ono recorded three albums of experimental and difficult electronic music, Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions, and Wedding Album. His first 'solo' album of popular music was Live Peace in Toronto 1969, recorded in 1969 (prior to the breakup of the Beatles) at the Rock 'n' Roll Festival in Toronto with The Plastic Ono Band, which included Eric Clapton and Klaus Voormann. He also recorded three singles in his initial solo phase, the anti-war anthem "Give Peace a Chance", "Cold Turkey" (about his struggles with heroin addiction) and "Instant Karma!".
Following the Beatles' split in 1970, he released the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album, a raw, brutally personal record, heavily influenced by Arthur Janov's Primal therapy, which Lennon had undergone previously. The influence of the therapy, which consists literally of screaming out one's emotional pain, is most obvious on the songs "Mother" ("Mama don't go!/Daddy come home!") and "Well Well Well." The centrepiece is "God," in which he lists all the things he does not believe in, ending with "Beatles". Many consider "Plastic Ono Band" to be a major influence on later hard rock and punk music. Lennon continued this effort to demythologise his old band with a long, confrontational interview published in Rolling Stone magazine.
This was followed in 1971 by Imagine, his most successful solo album, which alternates in tone between dreaminess and anger. The title track has become an anthem for anti-war movements, and was matched in image by Lennon's "white period" (white clothes, white piano, white room ...)
John Lennon, circa 1971.Perhaps in reaction, his next album, Some Time in New York City, was loud, raucous, and explicitly political, with songs about prison riots, racial and sexual relations, the British role in the sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland, and his own problems in obtaining a United States Green Card. This record is generally seen as the nadir of Lennon's career, full of heavy-handed and simplistic messaging unredeemed by much artistic value. On 30 August 1972 Lennon and his backing band Elephant's Memory staged two benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York; it was to be his last full-length concert appearance. Lennon and Ono also did a week-long guest co-host stint on the Mike Douglas Show, in an appearance that showed Lennon's wit and humour still intact.
In 1972, Lennon released an anti-sexism song, "Woman Is the Nigger of the World", implying that as black people were discriminated against in some countries so were women globally. Radio refused to broadcast the song, and it was banned nearly everywhere.
Lennon rebounded in 1973 with Mind Games, which featured a strong title tune and some vague mumblings about a "conceptual country" called "Nutopia", which satirized his ongoing immigration case. His most striking song of that year was the wry "I'm the Greatest," which he wrote for Ringo Starr's very successful Ringo album.
In 1973, Lennon's personal life fell into disrepair when Yoko kicked John out of the house. Yoko approached May Pang, the attractive Asian woman who was their personal assistant, at the time with a unique proposal. Yoko, who thought May Pang to be an "ideal companion" for John, asked her to "be with John and to help him out and see to it that he gets whatever he wanted." John and May soon moved to Los Angeles which had been dubbed the "lost weekend" though it lasted until the beginning of 1975. During their time together, May encouraged John to spend time with his son, Julian Lennon, and became friends with Cynthia Lennon. Though John's public drunkenness had been the subject of gossip during 1974, Pang wrote that John was usually sober in his private life and created a large body of work.
Despite alleged episodes of drunkenness, Lennon put together the well-received album, Walls and Bridges, which featured a collaboration with Elton John on the up-tempo number one hit "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night". Another top ten hit from the album was the Beatlesque reverie "#9 Dream". Lennon capped the year by making a surprise guest appearance at an Elton John concert in Madison Square Garden where they performed "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" and "I Saw Her Standing There" together. It was to be his last-ever concert appearance.
In 1975, Lennon released the Rock 'n' Roll album of cover versions of old rock and roll songs of his youth. This project was complicated by Phil Spector's involvement as producer and by several legal battles; the result received generally negative reviews, though it yielded a powerful, lauded cover of "Stand by Me".
At this point Yoko was pregnant with what would be their first child, and Lennon — saddened by the fact that due to Beatlemania he had never gotten to experience fatherhood with his first son Julian — retired from music and dedicated himself to family life. This was made easier in 1976 when his U.S. immigration status was finally resolved favourably, after a years-long battle with the Nixon administration that included a FBI investigation involving surveillance, wiretaps, and agents literally following Lennon around as he travelled. Lennon claimed the investigation was politically motivated.
Also in 1975, David Bowie achieved his first US number one hit with "Fame", co-written by Bowie, Lennon (who also contributed backing vocals) and Carlos Alomar.
Lennon's retirement, which he began following the birth of his second son, Sean in 1975, lasted until 1980 when Lennon, for the first time in five years, picked up his guitar again. At first only curious to see if he could still write music, he felt refreshed and full of ideas, completely reinvigorated by the experiences of fatherhood and the long break from the business. He wrote an impressive amount of material during a Caribbean vacation and began thinking about a new album. For this comeback, he and Ono produced Double Fantasy, a concept album dealing with their relationship. The name came from a flower Lennon saw at an exposition; he liked the name, and thought it was a perfect description of his marriage to Yoko. "(Just Like) Starting Over" began climbing the singles charts, and Lennon started thinking about a brand new world tour. Lennon also commenced work on Milk and Honey which he would, unfortunately, leave unfinished. It was some time before Ono could bring herself to complete it.
Murder 谋害
In the late afternoon of December 8, 1980, in New York City, deranged fan Mark David Chapman met Lennon as he left for the recording studio and got his copy of Double Fantasy autographed; the event of Lennon signing one of his last autographs was caught by a photographer who witnessed this goodwill gesture. Chapman remained in the vicinity of The Dakota for most of the day as a fireworks demonstration in nearby Central Park distracted the doorman and passers-by.
Later that evening, Lennon and Ono returned to their apartment from recording Ono's single "Walking on Thin Ice" for their next album. At 10.50pm, their limousine pulled up to the entrance of the Dakota. Ono got out of the car first, followed by Lennon. Beyond the main entrance was a door which would be opened and a small set of stairs leading into the apartment complex. As Ono went in, Lennon got out of the car and glanced at Chapman, proceeding on through the entrance to the Dakota.
As Lennon walked past him, Chapman called out "Mr. Lennon." As Lennon turned, Chapman crouched into what witnesses called a "combat" stance and fired five hollowpoint bullets into John's back and shoulder. One of the bullets fatally pierced his aorta. Still, Lennon managed to stagger up six steps into the concierge booth where he collapsed, gasping "I'm shot, I'm shot."
Chapman stood there, holding his .38 Charter Arms revolver, which was pulled out of his hands and kicked away by Jose Perdomo who then asked "Do you know what you have done?", to which Chapman replied "I just shot John Lennon." Chapman then calmly took his coat off placed it at his feet, took out a book and started reading.
Police arrived within minutes, to find Chapman still waiting quietly outside, reading a copy of J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
The two officers transported Lennon to the hospital in the back of their squad car as they thought John was too badly hurt to take the risk of waiting for an ambulance. One of the officers asked Lennon if he knew who he was. Lennon's reply is reported to have been "Yeah" or simply a nod of the head before he passed out. Despite extensive resuscitative efforts in the hospital, Lennon had lost over 80% of his blood volume and died of shock at the age of 40. Millions would receive the news that night from Howard Cosell, commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football.
When asked once in the 1960s how he expected to die, Lennon's offhand answer was "I'll probably be popped off by some loony." In retrospect, the comment turned out to be chillingly accurate.
Memorial 纪念
A crowd gathered outside the Dakota the night of Lennon's death. Ono sent word that their singing kept her awake and asked that they re-convene in Central Park the following Sunday, for ten minutes of silent prayer (see also the 1980 Central Park Vigil - Tribute to John Lennon). Her request for a silent gathering was honoured all over the world.
December 9, 1980, Bruce Springsteen at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA noted after hearing of Lennon's death "It's a hard night to come out and play but there's nothing else you can do." He ended the show with a spirited performance of "Twist and Shout".
A special commemorative issue of Rolling Stone magazine released shortly after the murder featured as its cover a photo taken the morning of the shooting by Annie Leibovitz showing a nude Lennon in an embryonic pose kissing a fully clothed Ono.
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel remembered Lennon in their 1981 reunion concert in Central Park, performing a song titled "The Late Great Johnny Ace". (Johnny Ace had been a promising singer-songwriter, who had also died tragically, in the 1950s.) Simon and Garfunkel had tried recording in the 1970s with Lennon and Harry Nilsson; their one session together had unfortunately yielded no results.
The Strawberry Fields Memorial was constructed in Central Park across the street from the Dakota, in memory of Lennon. (When George Harrison died in 2001, people congregated on the "Imagine" mosaic circle in Strawberry Fields.)
In 1988, Warner Bros. produced a documentary film, Imagine: John Lennon (sanctioned in part by Yoko Ono). The movie was a biography of the former Beatle, featuring interviews, rarely seen musical material, and narration by Lennon himself (formed from interviews and tapes recorded by Lennon). It also introduced "Real Love", one of the last songs composed by Lennon, in an early demo (a later demo would form the basis for the version rehashed by The Beatles for The Beatles Anthology). The following year, at an auction of Beatles memorabilia, Lennon's jukebox was sold at Christie's for 2,500 pounds. The Mellotron that Lennon used to record, amongst other songs, "Strawberry Fields Forever", is currently owned by Trent Reznor of the band Nine Inch Nails.
Specially selected radio stations aired a syndicated series called The Lost Lennon Tapes in 1990. Hosted by Lennon publicist Elliot Mintz, the show spotlighted raw sessions from throughout Lennon's career with and without The Beatles, including rare material never released to the public. During the America: A Tribute to Heroes concert on September 21, 2001, Neil Young (an avowed devotee of Lennon) sang "Imagine."
In 1995, the band Oasis released a song called "Don't Look Back in Anger", from their second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. The piano at the beginning of the song is taken from "Imagine".
In October 2000 John Lennon Museum was opened in Ono's hometown Saitama, Japan, to preserve knowledge of his works and career.
In March, 2002, his native city, Liverpool, honoured his memory by renaming their airport "Liverpool John Lennon Airport," and adopting as its motto a line from his song "Imagine": "Above us only sky". In the same year, Lennon was voted 8th by the British public in the "100 Greatest Britons" poll run by the BBC. BBC History Magazine commented that his "generational influence is immense."
On October 31, 1994, Phish, a jam band, paid tribute to Lennon and the Beatles by covering The Beatles album (also known as the White Album).
In 2004 Madonna paid tribute to Lennon by singing a cover of "Imagine" during her anti-war themed "Re-Invention World Tour." Also in 2004, A Perfect Circle recorded a cover of "Imagine" on their album eMOTIVe.
In 2005, a musical titled Lennon was shown for the first time in San Francisco. It received a very lacklustre response from theatre critics and Beatles fans alike.
In 2005, Cowboy Junkies covered "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" on their anti-war album, "Early 21st Century Blues".
John Lennon Park was built in Cuba as a memorial to the musician.
Lennon's son with Cynthia, Julian Lennon, enjoys a notable recording career of his own, as does his son with Yoko, Sean Lennon.
Throughout his solo career, Lennon appeared on his own albums (as well as those of other artists like Elton John) under such pseudonyms as Dr. Winston O'Boogie, Mel Torment (a play on singer Mel Tormé), and The Reverend Fred Gherkin.
A biographical Broadway musical titled Lennon will premiere at New York City’s Broadhurst Theater on August 14, 2005. Written and directed by Don Scardino from Lennon's own words in interviews and songs, Lennon features nine diverse actors and actresses portraying the singer-songwriter at various stages in his life backed by an onstage 10-piece band. The play was produced with the endorsement of Yoko Ono, who gave permission for the production to use two unpublished Lennon songs, India, India and I Don't Want to Lose You, and who attended preview performances of the show at New York City's Broadhurst Theater on August 5 & 6, 2005. the Musical had been premiered in San Francisco to poor reviews and subsequently reworked, to a much better reception.
JUST THIS SENTENCE CAN EXPRESS MY MIND. 作者: Harry 时间: 2005-9-9 21:32 标题: 约翰-列侬精选集将发行 为其65岁生日献礼(图)
今年的10月9日，将是西方人眼中的“共产主义者”，伟大的摇滚音乐家约翰·列侬(John Lennon)的65岁生日。在10月3日，一套包含38首歌曲的双张CD《Working Class Hero --The Definitive Lennon》届时将要发行，纪念这位“工人阶级的英雄”。精选辑收录了列侬离开披头士乐队后所发行的个人专辑中的主打歌曲。
约翰·列侬于1940年出生于英国利物埔。在早年随披头士的辉煌之后，列侬于60年代末脱离乐队个人发展。个人发行的经典专辑有：1970年的《John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band》,1971年的《Imagine》,1973年的《Mind Games》，1974年的《Walls and Bridges》等。在列侬短暂的一生中，他还同妻子大野洋子一起一直努力倡导和维护着世界和平。可惜的是，在1980年12月8日，列侬在其住所门外被患有精神疾病的歌迷马克·大卫·查普曼(Mark David Chapman)枪杀，与世长辞。 作者: ter-吉吉 时间: 2005-9-13 19:12
John's primary instrument was rhythm guitar, although he also played lead occasionally. Perhaps the best known examples of his lead playing are the lead he shares with Harrison on "I Feel Fine" and the solos on "Get Back", primarily a McCartney composition, and on "Revolution 1". Given his widely acknowledged expertise and inventiveness as a songwriter, John was less proficient playing rhythmic instruments such as drums or bass. For example, during the song "Another Girl" in the movie Help! he appears to play the drums uneasily and out of rhythm (the Beatles all switch their instruments during this clip). John played piano on "I Am The Walrus" and bass on "Back in the USSR", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" in which, if one listens closely, a few technical mistakes can be heard (these were fixed decades later on McCartney's stripped down, "un-Spectored" version Let it Be... Naked). Of course, the basic track used on the album produced by Spector was a rehearsal track never intended to be the final version of the song. The other Beatles admitted to teasing John about his timekeeping. Lennon's irregularities in rhythm can be attributed at least in part to his compositional style in which the lyrical content was dominant and the music with occasional time changes made to fit the meter of the lyric. And Lennon's also known to have introduced some of the most complex rhythms in Beatles compositions, as for example in "Happiness is a Warm Gun" on Beatles 68 (The White Album). When the remaining Beatles reunited in the mid 90s to record some of John's unreleased demo tracks, producer Jeff Lynne used studio technology to compensate for John's flexible sense of tempo (ironically, since his wonted instrumental role in the Beatles is usually characterized as rhythm guitar). But, of course, one must also recall that the tapes used for those compositions were home demo tapes never intended to be released as finished songs. Indeed, they were songs Lennon had not yet considered ready for recording.
[ 本帖最后由 J-will 于 2005-10-7 09:06 编辑 ] 作者: sunfishxlp 时间: 2005-10-7 01:08 标题: Who is the next?
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Who is the next? 作者: sunfishxlp 时间: 2005-10-9 18:54
早在列侬单飞以前，他就在Beatles中表现得与众不同。Beatles刚刚成名时，所有的成员都沉浸在成名的欣喜和巡演的兴奋中，而列侬是最先厌倦于此的人，他讨厌以一副献媚者的样子示人——他发现观众只是沉醉于演唱会的气氛，而不是真的倾听他们的音乐。约翰当然知道巡演会为他们带来更多的金钱和名誉，但他是一个追梦的孩子，他的梦中有音乐，而金钱和名誉不在他的梦里，他孩子般的理想主义者气质不允许他背叛自己的梦。于是，在1966年，约翰终于取得乔治·哈里森的支持，停止了Beatles的全球巡演。然后这件事的结果就是Beatles在录音室的心血被贯注到《Revolver》、《Sgt.Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band》、《The White Album》三张专辑中，奠定了Beatles的历史地位。不难想象，如果没有列侬的停演决定，Beatles永远会是舞台上为人取乐的工具和小丑。
但约翰从不曾绝望，像孩子一样执著的他说要给世界上每个领导人寄两颗橡树的种子作为和平的种子，还说要进行一次世界范围的和平狂想曲巡演。由于美国政府的阻挠，这一计划终于没有实现。可约翰在蒙特利尔的一首《Give Peace a Chance》让他的和平之声撒遍世界，这是真心的期待，一个孩子发自内心的呼唤——和平！
3.Live on, Dream on, Rock on.——2002年5月2日夜-01:35 作者: 蕭張使君子 时间: 2005-10-31 15:39
大伙能不能推荐几首BEATLES的歌 作者: Harry 时间: 2005-11-3 11:55
最经典的是hey jude、let it be、yesterday、以及黄色潜水艇 作者: 蕭張使君子 时间: 2005-11-5 11:00
这四首我都听过很多次了，但是我更喜欢rain and tears 还有iimagine 作者: Harry 时间: 2005-11-30 19:45 标题: 一篇John Lennon的祭文（无法确认是什么时间写的，不过写得不错）
[原创]祭John Lennon－海无边
又到了这个日子了，记得很清楚，去年的这个时候，由于自己的一封E-mail，希望英语曾经播出了一期John Lennon的专题。确切的说，那天只听到了三首歌，Nowhere Man, I'm happy just to dance with you, hey jude。不过想来，hey jude 虽然放的是孙版的，但经过一些改动——所谓改动，也就是将一些他们的照片穿插于其中——不过不得不说实话的是，那几张照片的确选的很好，也着实让人感动了好一阵子，后来知道，那好象是a hard day's night的封面那些大头照。
而到了今年的这个日子，希望英语恐怕也不会有什么专题了吧。无可置否的是，不管CCTV是否忘了John Lennon，忘掉这个日子。无疑的是，记住这个日子，然后再去纪念的人，定然是在增多。
如果当Chapman开枪之时，我是在旁边的一名目击的歌迷，也许会和yoko有着同样悲伤的感觉，不，我想，yoko的悲伤应该是更深切，这个世界上恐怕她是最悲伤的了。john的离去，标志着一个时代的开始，同时也标志着那个lennon时代不会结束，那些被政府看做“敏感话题”的歌，也会永远的被我们传唱下去。
那些反战歌曲，只是john的一部分，他真正值得让人起敬的是带着歌迷参加游行，而在今天，他依然走在我们的前面不管我们在后面是否talking about Bagism，或者是否carrying pictures of Chairman Mao。或者我们之中又出了多少个所谓的working class hero，他始终走在前面，hipee John Forever。
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
对于john，他永远不是孤单的一个人。对于我们，也永远有john在心灵上给我们的抚慰陪伴着。就是那instant karma里的那句最经典的歌词一样。
不管怎么说，他始终都做着自己，作为John Lennon活在这个世上。
我一直坚信，yoko和他的爱情，如果没有深厚的爱，这么多阻挠之下，是不可能有个结局的。从julia中的温情，和i'm so tired里的痛苦，这些都是john的特点，同时也化成了john特有的爱，献给了yoko。在我知道john死的时候，yoko就在旁边，曾经有一段时间我不敢去听stand by me。
I'm in love for the first time, don't you know it's gonna last.
所以，希望64岁的john，能听到我在唱when i'm sixty-four。希望他64岁依然英气勃勃。你将永远被需要，路还很长着呢，所以，只能祝愿再祝愿：
John，走好。 作者: sunfishxlp 时间: 2005-12-3 19:55
12。8不远了
想要有所行动。。 作者: Harry 时间: 2005-12-3 20:19
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原帖由 sunfishxlp 于 2005-12-3 19:55 发表
12。8不远了
想要有所行动。。
12.8是什么日子？ 作者: sunfishxlp 时间: 2005-12-5 15:04
1940.10.09 -1980.12.08 作者: Harry 时间: 2005-12-8 09:38
