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John Lennon
said
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war—for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people.
— Quoted in The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969)
John Lennon
British musician (1940–1980)
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- Audience2.5M
- Fame94.9
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Lived 1940–1980, aged 40United Kingdom
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The Beatle who turned a songwriting machine into a platform for peace, then paid for it with his life three weeks after returning from silence.
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Born in Liverpool in 1940, Lennon formed the Quarrymen in 1956, which became the Beatles in 1960; his partnership with Paul McCartney built the most successful songwriting catalog in history. By 1967 his songs had become counterculture anthems, and in 1969 he left the Beatles to start the Plastic Ono Band with Yoko Ono, staging bed-ins and releasing protest singles like "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine." After moving to New York in 1971, his anti-Vietnam stance triggered a three-year Nixon deportation fight; he separated from Ono for two years, produced Nilsson and collaborated with Elton Jo…
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John Lennon
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I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives... I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, you know...
— Lennon "Our society is run by insane people", Interview (6 June 1968) cited in Educate Inspire Change (10 June 2014)
John Lennon
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I am he as you are he as you are meAnd we are all together
— I Am the Walrus, (1968)
John Lennon
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We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it.
— Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles (1968)
John Lennon
said
Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
— Originally cited in an interview with journalist Maureen Cleave published by London's Evening Standard newspaper (4 March 1966) which
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