Remembering John Lennon - Four Decades Later
Four decades ago tonight, the world bid farewell to one of rock's finest men. John Lennon has been gone today as long as he had lived. Born John Winston Lennon, on October 9, 1940, Lennon's musical contributions, and his calls for world peace, have become a while recognized element of pop culture. A Massive Career Lennon's career spanned two and a half decades. At only 15, he started his first band - the Quarrymen, a name derived from Quarry Bank High School. The band developed a style of half-skiffle, half-rock'n'roll. In the summer of 1957, sixteen-year old Paul McCartney met Lennon backstage after a gig, and Lennon, intrigued by Macca, asked Macca to join. McCartney, in turn, brought along his collegue, fourteen-year-old George Harrison, to the party. It is this lineup of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, bass player Stuart Sutclife, and drummer Collin Halton (later Pete Best), that would become... The Fab Four By the fall of 1960, the aforementioned ensamble were in