Singer, songwriter, artist, activist, and pop star, popular culture has rarely seen a talent as endlessly captivating as John Lennon.
歌唱家、作词者、艺术家、社会运动家、明星、约翰.列农让流行乐坛熠熠生辉。
Before being shot dead by an obsessed fan in New York City in 1980, Lennon enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success with history’s most famous rock band, The Beatles.
在1980年被一名极度狂热的歌迷刺杀身亡前，列农和史上最伟大的乐队——披头士乐队，享有巨大的商业和舆论成功，
Starting as more of a pop group, in 1957 Lennon and The Beatles cut their teeth with marathon gigs in Hamburg and roared into into America in 1964, mobbed by rabid fans and screaming girls.
Lennon grew increasingly tired of being a pop star, and he and his fellow Beatles -- Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr -- went on to stretch the bounds of songwriting.
列农在日益厌倦明星的角色，与团队的其他成员投入于音乐创作。
The band created groundbreaking album after groundbreaking album from Revolver (1966), to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) to The White Album (1968).
1966、1967、1968年，乐队创造出了很多优秀的传记作品。
Lennon shared songwriting and vocal duties with bandmates, but was the group’s most polarizing figure, once observing that The Beatles were more famous than Jesus. The fact that the statement, in the sense that Lennon said it, was actually true did little to dampen the resulting controversy.
虽然列农与其他成员分担写歌和演唱的职责，但显然他是组织的灵魂人物，他曾宣称自己比上帝更加出名，引来了极大争议。
After he and The Beatles called it quits in 1969, Lennon went on to have a successful career as a solo artist and made the Grammy winning album Double Fantasy with wife and performance artist Yoko Ono.
在1969年披头士乐队解散后，列农（和他的妻子大野洋子）以独立艺术家的神门获得格莱美奖。
Lennon also became known for speaking out against war and campaigning for world peace, but it is his work with The Beatles that remains some of the most influential, highly regarded, and plain old beloved music ever recorded.
列农还因公开反对战争倡导和平和出名，但他和披头士乐队合作录制出的歌曲是最为广泛传唱的。作者: evaxiaofan 时间: 2010-10-14 10:10
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Fans celebrate John Lennon's 70th birthday
Memorabilia lie around a circle with the word Imagine in Central Park's Strawberry Fields in New York, December 8, 2005.[Photo/Agencies]
An image of John Lennon is projected onto the Liverpool waterfront buildings, December 8, 2005.[Photo/Agencies]
A fan holds up a picture of John Lennon at a candlelight vigil at Strawberry Fields, December 8, 2005.[Photo/Agencies]
A painting of John Lennon hangs on the front of the the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) building in Havana, December 19, 2006.[Photo/Agencies]
A photo of John Lennon sits on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, December 8, 2005.[Photo/Agencies]
A self portrait by John Lennon hanging in west London, September 6, 2001.[Photo/Agencies]作者: tjhd 时间: 2011-1-11 11:36
Yes. I am a great admirer of their creativity, the unique voice, as well as the struggle for peace and human dignity.作者: evaxiaofan 时间: 2011-1-12 13:16
yes, the beatles is a miracle, their members' creativity has brought about so many classic and brillant songs, compared to current songs, they are so unique~ I love them so much~and I admire love between John and his wifies ~~hah~作者: tjhd 时间: 2011-1-12 13:54
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