John Lennon
Biography
John Beatle Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Movies (276)
John Lennon: The Last Interview
2026
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026
Man on the Run
2026
Evolver 62
2026
The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
2025
A Love Letter to the Beatles
2025
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
2025
Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
2025
TWST / Things We Said Today
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
The Beatles
2025
La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
2024
Beatles '64
2024
Elton John: Never Too Late
2024
Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
2024
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
Here Today
2024
Daytime Revolution
2024
Paul McCartney: Got Back - Live at River Plate Stadium
2024
Hinckley
2024
The Bannfoot Ferry
2024
The Beach Boys
2024
Paul McCartney: Got Back
2023
Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
2023
The Beatles and the BBC
2023
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
2023
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2023
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
2023
Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
2023
Louder Than Rock
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Little Richard: I Am Everything
2023
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
2022
If These Walls Could Sing
2022
Ringo Starr: One of Them
2022
Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
2022
Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
2022
The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022
The Beatles and India
2021
Parkinson at 50
2021
Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
2021
Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
2021
Under the Volcano
2021
Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
2020
Zappa
2020
John Lennon: His Life, His Legacy, His Last Days
2020
Lennon's Last Weekend
2020
Meeting the Beatles in India
2020
Understanding McCartney
2020
Lennon & McCartney: Hello From Liverpool
2020
Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
2019
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
2019
Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
2019
The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
2019
Understanding Lennon/McCartney
2018
John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
2018
The King
2018
The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
2018
Looking for Lennon
2018
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
2018
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
George Harrison - All Things Pass
2018
Take Your Pills
2018
John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
My Generation
2017
I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
2017
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
2017
The Summer of Love
2017
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
2017
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
2017
Free to Rock
2017
Kyoko
2017
Året var 1967
2017
WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
2016
Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
2016
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
2016
The Last Lennon Interview
2015
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015
The Beatles 1
2015
The Beatles 1+
2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Beatles på Sverigeturné
2014
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
2013
Population Boom
2013
Good Ol' Freda
2013
Salinger
2013
Året var 1963
2013
Genius
2012
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
2012
Palme
2012
The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
2012
The Beatles: Their Golden Age
2012
Becoming the Beatles
2012
The Winged Beetle
2012
Beatles Stories
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
2011
The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
2011
I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
2011
The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
2011
Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1973-1980
2011
The Day John Lennon Died
2010
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
2010
LennoNYC
2010
The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
2010
Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
2010
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2010
John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
2010
The Beatles: The Complete Story
2010
The Rise & Fall of WCW
2009
The Beatles - Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1967-1972
2009
The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
2009
The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
2009
The Beatles on Record
2009
The Beatles: Parting Ways
2009
O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
2009
The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
2008
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
2008
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
2008
The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
2008
Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
2008
The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
2008
365 Day Project
2007
The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
2007
THE BEATLES in HELP!
2007
The Beatles Phenomenon
2007
I Met the Walrus
2007
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
2007
The Beatles Explosion
2007
The Beatles In America
2007
The Beatles: Love
2006
To John With Love
2006
John & Yoko Bed-In
2006
Warhol and Maciunas
2006
The Ballad of AJ Weberman
2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
Doctor Who: Origins
2006
I Killed John Lennon
2005
The World's Greatest Gigs
2005
Pink Floyd London '66-'67
2005
The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
2005
The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
2005
Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
2005
The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
2005
Meet the Beatles
2005
Beatles Biggest Secrets
2004
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
2004
The Beatles: Around the World
2003
Imagine Imagine
2003
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
2003
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
2003
Beatles: The Journey
2003
The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
2003
The Beatles - Trilogy
2003
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
2002
Things They Said Today
2002
Naqoyqatsi
2002
John Lennon: The Messenger
2002
Monday Night Mayhem
2002
Elvis: King of Entertainment
2002
Beatles: Big Beat Box
2001
Wingspan
2001
Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
2000
John & Yoko's Year of Peace
2000
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
Grass
1999
The Beatles: A Celebration
1999
Happy Birthday to John
1997
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
1996
The Beatles Story
1996
The Beatles Unauthorized
1996
Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
1996
You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
1995
Forrest Gump
1994
Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
1993
Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
1993
The John Lennon Video Collection
1992
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
1992
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
1992
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
1991
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990
Imagine: John Lennon
1988
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
1988
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Vain Glory
1986
John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
1986
Fun with the Fab Four
1986
John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
1985
The Real Buddy Holly Story
1985
Yoko Ono: Then and Now
1984
When the Music's Over
1983
The Compleat Beatles
1982
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
The Killing of America
1981
This Is Elvis
1981
Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
1979
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978
The Beatles at Shea Stadium
1977
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
The Day the Music Died
1977
Fire in the Water
1977
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
1976
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
1975
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
1974
Oh Yoko!
1973
Imagine
1972
The One to One Concert
1972
Eat the Document
1972
John Lennon - Imagine
1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
Brazil in Cannes
1971
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
Sweet Toronto
1971
Up Your Legs Forever
1971
Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
Dynamite Chicken
1971
Apotheosis
1970
Let It Be
1970
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
1969
The Beatles: Something
1969
The Beatles: Abbey Road
1969
Self-Portrait
1969
Bed Peace
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
1969
The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
1969
Beatles Electroniques
1969
The Beatles Mod Odyssey
1968
Film No. 5
1968
The Beatles: Revolution
1968
Yellow Submarine
1968
Two Virgins
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
The Movie Orgy
1968
Magical Mystery Tour
1967
How I Won the War
1967
Our World
1967
Monument
1967
Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
1967
El Rey en Londres
1966
The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
1966
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
1966
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
1966
The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
1966
Reflections on Love
1966
The Music of Lennon & McCartney
1965
The Beatles: Live in Paris
1965
Help!
1965
Doctor Who: The Chase
1965
Pop Gear
1965
What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
1964
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
1964
A Hard Day's Night
1964
The Beatles Sing for Shell
1964
The Beatles in Australia
1964
Around the Beatles
1964
The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
1964
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
1964
The Beatles Come to Town
1963
The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
1963
The Mersey Sound
1963
The Beatles - 1967-1970
TV Shows (29)
David Frost Vs
2025
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
2023
The Beatles: Get Back
2021
McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
A Life in Ten Pictures
2021
This Is Pop
2021
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
2018
The Defiant Ones
2017
In Their Own Words
2015
Infamous Assassinations
2012
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Mentiras verdaderas
2011
The 60s: The Beatles Decade
2008
20th Century Greats
2004
Behind the Music
1997
Classic Albums
1997
The Beatles Anthology
1995
Timewatch
1982
The Old Grey Whistle Test
1971
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Omnibus
1967
The Beatles
1965
Top of the Pops
1964
Top of the Pops
1964
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Morecambe & Wise
1961
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948