Презентация на тему John Lennon… All I want is the truth

Chance”, in a week long protest called a “Bed-in

Protesting with his soul one, Yoko Ono, over the hate in the world; Vietnam, assassination of M.L.K Jr., riots, and the Soviet Union.

on November 15, 250,000 Vietnam protesters in Washington D.C.

John watched on TV as they sang, “forever, and not stopping,” he said. “It was one of the biggest moments in my life.”

after one of the German air raid’s of WWII.

wasn’t that he was being raised by his aunt

It was something inside him, something in the way he viewed the world.

No one else seemed to understand: not his teachers, his aunt and uncle, his friends.

It made him angry, tough, and afraid.

“It’s that same problem I had when I was five: ‘There is something wrong with me because I seem to see things other people don’t see. Am I crazy, or am I a genius?”

real-- everything else was unreal.
To me it got through–

Men, were playing for the Liverpool City dance. Paul

They were introduced to each other and Paul showed the band what he could do.

John accepted him for he knew that he would do good for the band.

In Paul’s house they wrote songs and practiced.

Julia was so late, when a police officer knocked

He asked John if he was Julia’s son, then told them she’d been hit by a car and killed.

…the driver, a drunk off-duty policeman, stood trial for reckless driving.

break drunk. Sometimes he’d retreat up to the top

Paul understood what john was going through better than anyone else. “Now we were both in this; both losing our mothers,” said Paul. “This was a bond for us, something of ours a special thing.”

a new name.
They were booked with shows in clubs.
Brian

a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and

Getting all four Beatles through the crowds now gathering at train stations, airports, and concert halls required a choreographed strategy:…

others too, but I always had more, I always

Now with drugs and exhaustion, John was distant from his wife, Cynthia.

Cynthia was terrified.

1966

had just played their last show.
Who was he without

…he found it nearly impossible to sleep. He popped even more pills to cope.

But…

Despite his fascination with LSD and his growing interest in Yoko, John had songs to write, albums to record.

“I don’t like to do it in front of people,” Paul explained. “It’s like sex for me, I never was an orgy man.”

Their meetings were intense, collaborative, and confrontational. John would tear into Paul’s songs.

Late in November 1966, the Beatles filed back into the studio…

No longer fueled by sheer, raw vitality, they were sophisticated, talented young men…

Deeply connected with one another musically and personally, they were functioning at the height of their career.

and Yoko meet and fall in love and he

“I had no doubt I’d met the one.”

John thought to himself, “We’ve fuckin’ had it.”

Brain Epstein dies…

being known as just a Beatle and he left

As part of his new, post-Beatle politically aware state, John spoke out against racism and sexism, saying Yoko had opened his eyes.

They bantered uncomfortably – where were they heading as a band?
Paul thought they needed to go back on the road and do small gigs again, get back in their roots.
John looked at Paul and said bluntly, “Well, I think yer daft!...I’m leaving the group.”

who controls me is me, and that’s just barely

“This was a bitter time for John,” said Rubin. “Bitter, bitter, bitter.”

He was bitter about Paul…Ranted and raved about being a celebrity.

He hated it.

and the heavy rocker and heavy womanizer and heavy

…on John’s 35 birthday, October 9, 1975, Yoko gave birth to Sean Taro Ono Lennon.

John became a family man and found himself.

Both of them having children reunited John and Paul’s friendship.

1980
11:00 a.m
with a .38 revolver pointed straight at John
and

“I’m shot, I’m shot.”