Lennon page 3

Lennon page 3 by ric Gustafson


In England in 1963 and in the United States in 1964, Beatlemania exploded. John was always surrounded by young girls trying to meet a Beatle. In 1964, fans at their concerts were so loud the band could not hear each other. Because of the teenage girls hounding them, they had to have armed policemen guarding them.
John was involved in one of the biggest pop culture controversies ever. Publicly he said that the band was more popular than Jesus Christ. The result in the US was that a lot of their records were publicly burned.
At a London gallery in 1966, John met an avant- garde visual performance artist named Yoko Ono. The two fell in love. John left his wife Cynthia in 1968. John and Yoko married in 1969 and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam. There they had a public two week bed-in. It was part anti war protest and part publicity stunt.
By 1970, the Beatles had broken up as a band.


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