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John Lennon, in full John Winston Ono Lennon, (born October 9, 1940, Liverpool, England-died December 8, 1980, New York, New York, U.S.), leader or co-leader of the British rock group the Beatles, author and graphic artist, solo recording artist, and collaborator with Yoko Ono on recordings and other art projects. Lennon's genius encompassed writing and the visual arts, the only field in which he received formal training. His natural gifts in both were considerable, but in the end, he proved a minor humorist and a casual if indelible cartoonist. In music, he had a less inborn facility, though his paternal grandfather worked for years as a blackface minstrel. But music was where he put his substance. Lennon was one of the great rock rhythm guitarists, his signature a nervous rest-one-two-and-rest that complicated his foursquare attack, and his strong, nasal singing overshadowed McCartney's more physically capable rocking and crooning. Declarative where the rockabilly singers he admired were frantic, almost a blues shouter in spirit if not in timbre. Having an insight in this book, readers will learn: -What John thought about punk bands like the Clash and the new wave music so popular in 1980. -That John's eclectic musical taste made him an unlikely fan of Bing Crosby, Noel Coward, and even Morris Albert's schmaltz classic Feelings. -How Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, and Bob Marley each inspired John to write a new song of his own in 1980. -How songs by Queen and the B-52s inspired John to re-enter the recording studio for the first time in five years. -The event spurred John and Yoko to return to the studio just a couple of weeks after Double Fantasy was released. -The Doobie Brothers track lent its title to one of John's Double Fantasy songs. -The rock, disco, funk, country, and pop songs John was listening to that year.

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