Hippy History Month Essay #2

My essay is about John Lennon, aka John Lemon. He was best known for his impossible ability to work eight days a week.

John Lennon was born in Liverpool, England, in 1940. Nothing interesting happened in his early life, but he probably had a guitar at some poin.

In the mid fifties he formed his first band. It was named the Quarryman, which is why he didn't instantly gain fame. His partner was Paul McCartney and they eventually let George Harrison in after they got tired of his begging. The Beatles were chosen as their new name because they wanted to appeal to the younger generation, and there's no better way to do that then misspelling stuff. Ringo Starr joined them at some poin when the band got confused over the number four and five. Lennon was the leader despite the fact that they all had Moe Howard haircuts.

It was in the sixties that the Beatles became famous. They became popular in America after they appeared on Ed Sullivan, but John was angry when Ed only showed them from the foreheads down. John was furious and this was the origin of his rebellious ways. John even spent a hard day's night thinking of a great revenge, but Paul told him to let it be.

As the decade went on John started to worry his fellow band members. He is famous for observing that the Beatles were bigger then Jesus, but attempting to walk on water was too much. A yellow submarine was built to keep an eye on him and was there whenever he yelled Help! The Beatles tried to explain this away to the press by saying that he was pretending to be a walrus.

When John and his first wife divorced, Jonh looked for someone who would love him do. Since he couldn't buy himself love, he soon found a soulmate in Yoko Ono. She won his heart after she was the first to correctly answer nine when he asked her to pick a number between one and ten. It was not to long after this that John's message to the Beatles was, "Hello, Goodbye." When interviewed about this many years later, his response was simply, "because."

In the seventies John turned to political activism, which was the style of the time. He was determined to rally the younger voters to vote against the Vietnam War, and with his help, McGovern won Massachusetts.

Yoko and John's relationship started to falter. They tried to give peace a chance, but it wasn't something they could imagine for a while. They eventually reunited and John retired for a few years, only to return a few months before his murder.

Since John was a huge icon in the hippy movement, we can only assume that while he said he wanted to make a better world, he just smoked pot and smelled bad. R.I.P.