Who is John Lennon: biography, albums, performances, personal life, interesting and unusual facts, date and cause of death. John Lennon - life, creativity, love, quotes

Many books have been written about the life of this outstanding man; some authors even received scientific degrees for them. His songs, his thoughts and actions were repeatedly subjected to careful study and comprehension. We will not talk about who John Lennon really is and what he wanted to say with his work - we will simply tell his story.

Childhood

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 at Oxford Street Hospital. In almost any biography of John Lennon they write that this happened during the bombing - the Second World War. However, in reality, nothing of the kind happened, and the man who first wrote about it in his book about the Beatles denied his words many years later. John's mother, Julia, did not spend much time with the child. A year and a half later, she separated from the boy’s father, and a little later she found herself another man, and Aunt Mimi took John into her house.

Mimi was a strict woman and kept the boy in. Of course, she loved the boy and wished him a better life, but in her own way: the limit of her hopes was that John would finish his studies at the institute and find a job. She wanted to raise him decent person, so she strictly monitored his morals and tried to prevent him from “mingling with street punks,” while John had already put together his own hooligan gang and fought with all the boys in the area.

When John went to school, he discovered that the local dull life was not at all for him: he began to study disgustingly, openly engaged in nonsense in class and was in a state of permanent war with teachers. Nevertheless, then his penchant for drawing appeared, or more precisely, for drawing mocking caricatures and obscene drawings.

Around this time, John becomes close to his mother, Julia. Julia was the “black sheep” of her family - devoid of prejudice, she did as she pleased, living for her own pleasure, and this earned the admiration of John, who was always a rebel. They became good friends, and the mother always supported any inventions and hobbies of her son.

The Quarrymen

And at that time it was the 50s: Bill Haley’s song “Rock around the clock” was released, in 1956 Elvis Presley appeared on the stage, and the wave of rock and roll swept over Britain. However, here it resulted in a slightly different form: skiffle appeared - this style had little resemblance to rock and roll, but it did not require complex instruments or the ability to play well, and therefore became extremely popular among young people.

John did not stand aside either: he and his friends from school pranks created their own skiffle group. His instrument was the guitar, although he did not know how to play. The only thing is that John's mother showed him a couple of chords on the banjo (the first song he learned was That"ll Be The Day

The guys played from time to time just for fun and did not consider it something serious. People in the group were constantly changing, someone came and left, new faces constantly flashed by. And on July 6, 1957, Paul McCartney appeared. After some time he brought George Harrison. George's mother, unlike Mimi, supported the children in their passion for music: the company always found a warm welcome in the Harrison house.

Art College

Having successfully failed all the exams at school, John, under the patronage of Principal Podgeboy (who sincerely tried to establish contact with the uncontrollable student), somehow entered art college. There, too, he practically did not study, he constantly staged various pranks and sometimes disrupted classes. He still didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he had already firmly understood that he hated any routine - be it work, study or something else that required work and diligence.

At that period of his life, he experiences a severe shock - the death of his mother, Julia. In the short period of time that they were friends, John became very attached to her. Julia was one of the few who truly understood him. After the death of his mother, John seemed to have broken free: he became embittered, his antics became even angrier, his jokes even more sarcastic.

At the same time, John met Cynthia Powell. Perhaps he needed her: John was trying to fill the void left by his mother's death. In fact, he simply took out all his anger on the girl. John also met a promising artist at the institute; Stu became interested in John's band and took the place of the bassist, even though he couldn't play. He was much more intelligent and intelligent than everyone else in the group, and John admired Stu; many elements of the Beatles' style were invented by him.

The group slowly, but slowly, developed: they played in youth clubs, at parties, and once managed to go on a tour of Scotland. All this time they did not have a specific name - the Quarrymen were long forgotten, the rest changed, and only after a while The Silver Beatles appeared, composed by John in the manner of Buddy Holly's "The Crickets".

Hamburg

In 1960, the Beatles were very lucky: Alan Williams invited them to go to Hamburg. At that time, he had already put Liverpool groups on tour there, and the guys were not the first. The place where they played was on Hamburg's red light district, and the Beatles performed all night for 6-8 hours straight, and slept in the cinema.

The Hamburg audience initially reacted lukewarmly to the guys standing on stage like idols; their manager, Koschmeider, was yelling at them, “Mack show,” a twisted version of “do a show.” And the Beatles began to “put on a show.” They kicked their feet loudly, jumped around the stage, rolled in the dust - in a word, they went crazy. Three-minute compositions were stretched over a third of an hour. The audience rejoiced.

It all ended very unexpectedly - George Harrison, a minor, was deported from the country. Following him, the rest of the group had to leave Germany. The first trip to Hamburg ended unsuccessfully, but it was here that the Beatles grew significantly in their skills and acquired many skills that would be useful to them later.

Under Epstein's wing

Returning to the hardened German club scene in Liverpool, the Beatles made a splash. They are firmly established in the most famous club local hooligan youth, and there they acquired a crowd of fans. Their relaxed behavior on stage, free communication with the audience, and rocking music produced an unprecedented effect: all performances ended in a grandiose brawl. It was there that they were picked up by the well-groomed white-handed Brian Epstein, who later became their manager. Under his strict leadership, the group completely changed its image: from the leather-clad, unwashed, foul-mouthed “Teddy Boys” the Beatles turned into neat, sleek young men in suits. Subsequently, Lennon regretted that the group “succumbed” to show business: with the new image they lost part of themselves - their unique spontaneity, simplicity and liveliness. John was annoyed that they were now climbing like vines “for the sake of publicity,” which they had previously despised. With his new image, he will long forget who John Lennon really is - a rebel and an implacable enemy of decency and the public.

During this time they traveled to Hamburg several more times. On the second tour of his arrival, John learned that Sutcliffe, who was staying there with his girlfriend Astrid, had died of a cerebral hemorrhage. The death of a close friend crippled Lennon: according to the recollections of friends, he burst into tears after Astrid’s words; it was a rare occasion when John showed emotion in public.

Beatlemania

Meanwhile, the Beatles were noticed by George Martin, and under his strict guidance they recorded a record, then another, a third and finally a fourth, She Loves You, which definitely marked the beginning of that three-year madness called Beatlemania. The band toured the world, wreaking havoc on ticket lines and unhinged fans. John and his friends enjoyed their success to the fullest: we will not cite the facts, scrupulously collected by fans, about what poured into the glasses, what they filled their pipes with, and how many girls spent the night in each of the hotels where the Beatles stayed. However, in show business, the group remained a bunch of sleek, rosy-cheeked boys singing sappy love songs. Subsequently, John would call this the worst time in his life: he was forced to be something other than what he was, for the sake of commerce, they turned a rebel rocker into a good boy, literally took away his real identity. Despite their outward brilliance and triumph, within the Beatles there was absolute moral degradation.

Acid and the end of concert activity

Having finished the tour and returned to England, John at first did not know what to do with himself. After the frantic pace of life on the edge of human capabilities, he felt empty and restless. It was then that John became interested in psychedelic experiences, marijuana and LSD. Perhaps this was his way of trying to destroy everything that had made up his life before and discover his purpose - to re-understand who John Lennon really was. By the way, around the same time, an attribute appeared, which later became an indispensable detail of the musician’s image. These were John Lennon's famous round glasses.

After some time, the band's concert career ended. They have grown significantly in musically and moved on to more cerebral studio albums. Then John developed a craving for avant-garde and psychedelic or acid rock. The results of his experiments were, for example, the fantastic I Am The Walrus and the hippie anthem All You Need Is Love.

Yoko Ono and the breakup of the Beatles

Yoko Ono took advantage of John’s interest in the avant-garde. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were perfect for each other - a purposeful Japanese woman whose main passion was attracting attention, and a restless superstar who needed a muse or genius to replace the simpleton Cynthia. They literally found each other. At this time, the Beatles were experiencing discord both in financial matters and in relationships within the group. The result was the collapse of legal proceedings. However, by that time John was already glad to leave the Beatles: his interests were taking him in a completely different direction.

Solo career and political activity

The first joint album of John and Yoko consisted of sound experiments, noise and interference, and simpler people remembered it mainly for the cover, where married couple appeared completely naked. This was just the beginning of the protest, the challenge they posed to the whole world. Subsequently, they will hold an extraordinary number of different events and performances designed to draw attention to the problems of violence in the world. The most famous of them is the “bed interview”, which took place in several cities; during it, John and Yoko sat in their hotel room (where anyone could enter) on a white bed in pajamas, decorated with flowers, and talked to countless journalists. Also in 1969, Lennon returned the Order of the Knights Commander of the British Empire, which he had received four years earlier, to the Queen as a sign of protest against participation in the Nigeria-Biafra armed conflict and US support in Vietnam. After moving to New York, he actively participated in local anti-war events, which brought him under government surveillance.

John continued to create - after vague experimental albums, he released Walls And Bridges while in the USA, which had significant success. After a long time - a break made in connection with the birth of his son Sean - his second album (with Yoko's participation) Double Fantasy was released, which became one of the pearls of the couple's joint work. Tempting creative prospects opened up before them. Perhaps John Lennon's best creative period was beginning. However, everything ended unexpectedly.

Death of John Lennon

Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980. Returning late at night from the recording studio, he heard a mysterious man call out to him. Without waiting for an answer, he fired five bullets from a revolver at the musician. Lennon was taken to hospital, where he bled to death. This is a rare posthumous photo of John Lennon taken in the morgue.

Crowds of thousands gathered in the streets. His songs were broadcast all over the world. A little later, in New York's Central Park, 400,000 people honored the musician's memory with a ten-minute silence. The murder of John Lennon shocked the whole world.

Lennon's integrity, honesty and straightforwardness truly deserve respect. His personal creativity has always been inextricably linked with his immediate state of mind and way of thinking. Extraordinary inner strength, which made him who he became, who John Lennon is, carried away millions of people who preserved not only his memory, but also a part of his soul.

John Lennon's childhood

Not finding common language with his aunt, John became very close friends with George, his uncle. George treated Lennon much more gently, but did not condone him, showing a truly fatherly approach to raising the boy. However, in 1953, Uncle George died, after which Lennon became noticeably closer to Julia, his mother, who by that time had already given birth to two children from her second husband.

Despite his intelligence, John could not endure schoolwork, so from year to year he studied worse and worse. The only subject in which Lennon had the best grades was music. In addition, John published a handwritten magazine with his own illustrations and sang in the choir, achieving sufficient success in this field. In 1952, John was transferred to another school, but even there he showed no success in learning, was distinguished by bad behavior and drew caricatures of teachers.

John Lennon in "The Quarrymen"

John Lennon - imagine...

Skiffle groups made up the vast majority of youth groups in the mid-fifties. musical groups in England. Lennon also founded his own group in 1956. The team was named " The Quarrymen"in honor of the school where all the band members studied. Lennon was a guitarist in the Quarrymen. Besides John, there were five other musicians in the group - another guitarist, two drummers, one banjo player and best friend Lennon, who performed the most important and honorable mission - playing on a washboard. In 1957, Lennon met Paul McCartney and soon invited him to join the Quarrymen.

McCartney then brings George Harrison into the band.

Meanwhile, school ends and it’s time for final exams, which Lennon completely failed. As a result, the school principal helped John enter the Liverpool College of Arts, where Lennon met another future member of the Quarrymen, Stuart Sutcliffe, and his future wife By Cynthia Powell.

In the summer of 1958, while crossing the road, John's mother was hit by a police officer's car, dying on the spot from her injuries. This became a huge grief for Lennon, who later dedicated several songs to this bitter event. After this accident, Lennon, strongly attached to Julia, tried to find a mother in all his women. In 1959, the Quarrymen were renamed the Silver Beetles. The name was later shortened to " The Beatles" The group, which grew out of a school skiffle band, was destined to change the world of music forever, becoming the most significant music group XX century.

Beginning of the Beatles

Stuart Sutcliffe met photographer Astrid Kircher during one of these visits. Astrid and Stuart met only briefly, deciding to formalize the relationship as soon as possible. As it turned out, there was a reason for the rush - the period of happiness was extremely short. In 1962, Sutcliffe died of a stroke. From the beginning of 1962, the group had a manager, Brian Epstein, who completely changed the image of the Beatles. Leather jackets are a thing of the past, replaced by jackets without lapels. On stage, the musicians no longer smoked or used foul language. This radical change in the appearance of the Beatles contributed to the rapid growth of the band's popularity.

In August 1962, Lennon married Cynthia Powell, and in April 1963, the Lennon family had a son, Julian, named after John's mother, who died in a road accident. In 1963, speaking to the family of the reigning monarchs, Lennon for the first time allowed himself to attack the royal family. This ended in a scandal, which made the Beatles even more popular. By 1964, the team already had worldwide fame.

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Drugs

John Lennon's second wedding

Beatles breakup

John Lennon's solo career

John Lennon interview excerpt

Political activities of John Lennon

In 1969, Lennon and Yoko Ono, while on their honeymoon in Amsterdam, announced that they would give a “bedside interview” to journalists. During this “interview,” everything turned out to be much more decent than the journalists believed - Lennon and Ono talked about ideas for world peace, sitting in bed in white pajamas. The couple held similar events in Toronto and Montreal. In the latter city, Lennon impromptu composed the song “Give Peace a Chance,” which became the anthem of the pacifist movement. In December 1969, the Lennons organized an anti-war concert, “The War Will End If You Want It.” In the early seventies, John began to have a psychological crisis, from which Dr. A. Yanov brought him out. Yanov’s treatment methods inspired John’s album “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” which became one of the musician’s best solo records. Lennon's last political album, Imagine, was released in 1971 and contained songs whose lyrics were based on John's utopian dreams.

Emigration

In 1973, Yoko Ono received permission to live in the States, and Lennon was ordered to leave the country within two months. The couple separated for more than a year. After receiving official permission to live in the States and the birth of his son, Lennon withdrew from the public eye and journalists for five years, declaring that he wanted to devote the next years to raising his son. In 1980, Double Fantasy was published, the last lifetime album musician. A few weeks after the album's release, John's life was cut short.

Death of John Lennon. Memory

John Lennon stand by me

The musician was cremated, Lennon's ashes were given to his wife. John's killer is serving life in a New York prison. Chapman applied for early release seven times, but all of these requests were rejected. The name of John Lennon is immortalized in many cities and countries of the world, including Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. In St. Petersburg there is an art project dedicated to John Lennon, on Pushkinskaya, 10. in Lviv, one of the city streets is named after the musician, and in Mogilev-Podolsky, a monument to Lennon was erected in the city park. A similar monument has been erected in Yekaterinburg since 2009.

John Lennon is an English musician, poet, composer, artist, one of the founders of the legendary British quartet The Beatles.

John Winston Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool (Great Britain), since childhood he suffered from congenital myopia (and wore glasses), as well as dyslexia - a disease that manifests itself, for example, in the fact that a person confuses the letters in words. Perhaps both defects had strong influence on the peculiarities of John Lennon’s perception of the world, on his artistic thinking and poetic talent. It could also have been influenced by the fact that John’s mother and father constantly quarreled with each other in front of his eyes, and he was especially impressed by the episode when he saw his father fighting with his mother’s lover. His mother, Julia, was generally a reckless and reckless woman, however, despite this, John loved her very much and suffered greatly when she died under the wheels of a police car (John Lennon was then 18 years old). Later, John Lennon dedicated several of his songs to her. When John Lennon was five years old, his parents gave him a choice - who he wanted to live with, his father or his mother. John chose his father, but stayed with his mother, his mother took him to Aunt Mimi and left him with her. She was a totalitarian woman and greatly oppressed everyone around her (including John Lennon).

In 1956 John Lennon Founded the Quarrymen team with school friends, in which John Lennon began playing guitar. On July 6, 1957, John Lennon met Paul McCartney, who soon joined The Quarrymen. John Lennon entered the Liverpool College of Art, where he met his future first wife, Cynthia Powell.

In 1959, The Quarrymen mutated into the Silver Beetles, and a little later into simply The Beatles. Further history this group is well known and deserves a separate article. It is important for us now to point out the next big milestone in the life of John Lennon. Namely: on March 14, 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono. The point of view that it was this Japanese avant-garde artist who became the decisive person in the formation and development of that John Lennon is consistently carried out in an article by Gleb Davydov that deserves one hundred percent reading. This text also denies the view of Yoko Ono as the person who ruined The Beatles. In fact, the group broke up due to the grueling lifestyle that its members, including John Lennon, led. By that time, John Lennon was using all kinds of drugs (especially a lot of LSD) and was a complete paranoid and drug addict. It was Yoko Ono who helped him come to his senses again and, in particular, through such social campaigns as Bed-in. Immediately after the wedding, John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrived in Amsterdam and announced a “bed interview” there. Journalists, expecting that John Lennon and Yoko Ono would publicly copulate, flocked to the hotel, but there it turned out that John Lennon and Yoko were just sitting in bed and shouting peaceful slogans. White pajamas, flowers everywhere and the doors of their room were wide open all day long... Anyone could come in and talk to them. Cameras, photographers, newspaper journalists and more. The protest later moved to Montreal (where John Lennon publicly recorded the anthemic song Give Peace a Chance). It was a media sensation, and thanks to it, the media was full of proposals to end the war in Vietnam. On December 15, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko held an anti-war concert, “The War Will End If You Want It.” On December 30 of the same year, British TV showed a program about John Lennon, where he was named one of the three political figures of the decade (the other two were John Kennedy and Mao Zedong).

John Lennon also advocated giving the Indians civil rights, for easing the conditions of prisoners in prisons, for the release of John Sinclair, one of the leaders of American youth, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of marijuana (thanks to the action of John Lennon, Sinclair was released).

In 1971, John Lennon's cult disc Imagine appeared. Since September 1971, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began to live in the USA. Since then, John Lennon has never returned to his homeland, Great Britain. Read more about the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono there in the USA in the article by Gleb Davydov.

On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was killed by a crazy maniac. In 2002, the BBC conducted a poll to determine the hundred greatest Britons of all time. John Lennon took eighth place according to the voting results.

short biography of the British rock musician who received world fame as one of the members of The Beatles is described in this article.

John Lennon biography briefly

John Lennon years of life — 1940-1980

John's parents separated when he was 4 years old, and he lived in the home of his maternal aunt Mimi Smith until adulthood.

In 1956, John Lennon founded the band The Quarrymen with his school friends, in which John Lennon began playing guitar. On July 6, 1957, John Lennon met Paul McCartney, who soon joined The Quarrymen. John Lennon entered the Liverpool College of Art.

In 1959, The Quarrymen mutated into the Silver Beetles, and a little later into simply The Beatles.

At first they made their own cover versions of hits, and then they began to write their own songs. Gradually the group became popular in their native Liverpool, after which the Beatles traveled to Hamburg several times, where they played in nightclubs.

In 1961, Brian Epstein became the Beatles' manager and completely changed their appearance. The guys change into formal suits without lapels and begin to behave professionally on stage.

After the release of the first single “Love Me Do” and the subsequent full-length album “Please Please Me,” Beatlemania began in the UK. And after the release of the new single “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” a wave of popularity swept across America and then the whole world.

Over the next few years, the band members toured non-stop and released one album after another.

In 1967, when John, Paul, George and Ringo stopped touring and concentrated on recording and writing new songs, Lennon began to lose interest in the group. At first he refused the role of the leader of the Beatles, then for the first time in many years he began to compose separately from McCartney.

After releasing several more very successful records, the group ceased to exist. Officially this happened in 1970, but there were problems in the team over the past 2 years.

John Lennon also advocated for giving Indians civil rights, for easing the conditions of prisoners in prisons, for the release of John Sinclair, one of the leaders of American youth, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of marijuana (thanks to the action of John Lennon, Sinclair was released).

In 1971, John Lennon's solo disc Imagine appeared.

John Lennon subsequently released 5 more studio albums, several collections and live recordings.

Where did John Lennon die?

December 8, 1980 The musician was shot and killed by Mark Chapman. The killer fired five shots into Lennon's back, missing only once. Lennon was pronounced dead upon arrival at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital; the reason is shock and extensive blood loss.

Where is John Lennon buried?

John's body was cremated on December 10, 1980 at Ferncliff Cemetery, Greenburgh. The ashes were given to Ono's wife, who stated that there would be no funeral. Yoko Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Strawberry Fields Central Park.

John Lennon personal life

John Lennon was married twice. Married to Cynthia Powell, he had a son, Julian (born in 1963), who became a singer and musician. Married to Yoko Ono, their son Sean (born in 1975) was born; he also followed in his father’s footsteps and became a singer, composer and musician.

- one of the most famous Britons who lived in the 20th century. According to the BBC rating, he took eighth place in the list of the hundred greatest Britons in history. He was able to achieve all this thanks to the fact that he became one of the founders of the greatest group in the history of music - The Beatles!

John Lennon: biography

John Lennon, biography who is available here, was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940. IN early childhood His parents separated, and John was taken in by Aunt Mimi and Uncle George. As a result, his uncle actually became his second father, although he died when the future Beatle was only 13 years old. At school, John Lennon did not do well; he was more interested in improving his talents in the field of art - singing and drawing were clearly better for him than other subjects.

During the development of rock and roll, John Lennon quickly became one of its fans. In England, a special style of skiffle appeared, which young groups, including the team, began to popularize John The Quarrymen. Perhaps they would not have achieved success, but on July 6, 1957, one of the most important events in the history of music took place. It was on that day that new member, young and then unknown Paul McCartney. This is how the creative duo Lennon-McCartney was formed, which became the most successful tandem in the history of music. Soon Paul's friend George Harrison comes to the team and the team begins to gain everyone known species. A little later in college, Lennon met Stuart Sutcliffe, who then performed with the Beatles for a couple of years.

At the age of 18, John's mother dies, which was a big blow for the young musician.

John Lennon: The Beatles period

A year after that group The The Quarrymen were renamed the Silver Beetles, and a little later the word Silver was removed from the name and the beetles became The Beatles.

In 1960, the group went to Hamburg, where they gained some popularity. Stuart Sutcliffe also remained there for permanent residence, and soon died of a hemorrhage. The Beatles received a new manager at this time - Brian Epstein, who introduced traditional Beatle jackets without lapels into fashion. He soon married Cynthia Powell, and a year later their son was born.

At this time, worldwide fame fell upon the group, which came to them almost immediately after the release of their first album Please Please Me. At the same time, John and Paul began to gain some popularity in their separation from the group - they wrote more lyrics and music than their colleagues and became slightly more significant figures on stage and off. In 1966, he said in an interview that they were more popular than Jesus and, in general, that Christianity in itself was almost nothing. This caused a storm of protest and, after threatening to kill Lennon, the group decided to stop performing.

After this, the group moved away from the usual correct image in clothing and appearance, and John Lennon I even became addicted to drugs. At this time, his distance from the group began, and a gap in understanding the direction of the Beatles' development between him and Paul McCartney began. Their songs began to sound so different from each other that one could easily understand which of the two geniuses wrote this or that composition. A little bit later John Lennon, photo which is available here, is divorcing his wife Cynthia Lennon, who has not forgiven him for his affair with Yoko Ono. John and Yoko soon formalized their marital relationship. This is what he is dedicated to song The Ballad of John and Yoko.

Back in 1968, the Beatles began to break up, in particular, already that year the joint album of the Lennons was released, Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins. Before The collapse They recorded several more Beatles albums and then formed the Plastic Ono Band, which featured many stars, including Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Eric Clapton. The group existed until 1975, managing to release 8 full-length albums containing many hits, among which Imagine, the best creation of John Lennon, stands out. This song rightfully occupies one of the highest positions in all song charts in history. At the same time, a revolutionary period began in his work, which oozed from his songs, interviews, calling to stop wars here and there. As a result, the United States was forced to deny him the right to live within its borders, and even because of this, they separated for a while.

After reuniting with his wife, John begins to record new songs, but in 6 years he only releases 3 records. In 1975, he had another son, Sean Lennon.

Death of John Lennon

It seemed that everything was getting better in the musician’s life, but on December 8, 1980, Mark Chapman killed the ex-Beatle with four shots in the back right outside his house, for which he received a life prison sentence.

John's importance to music is enormous, and death of John Lennon caused the world to lose one of the main thinkers of its time. Songs are written in his honor, even Beatles colleagues dedicated their compositions to him, in particular Harrison and McCartney. They even released them in his honor stamps and coins.