John Lennon Accomplishments

October 9, 1940, a man was born in Britain that would one day take over the world. He was not a great ruler or dictator, nor was an activist or religious leader. He was a normal boy who grew to be one of the best singer song writers of our time. This is about the troubled personal life of one of America’s most beloved musicians, John Lennon.
John Lennon was born into a middle class household to his parent Julia and Alfred Lennon. As a child he grew up with his parents, three sisters, and two brothers, but at the age of four his mother and father split. John lived with his Aunt Mimi for the majority of his life after his parents divorced. She raised him through his childhood and took care of him through the many hard times they faced. On July 15, 1958, John’s mother’s life was tragically taken when a speeding car hit her (Andrew par. 3). This event changed John and forced John to lose his innocence.
Even though, there were some rough times in John’s early life, his teen-age years were very important to his success. At the age of sixteen, John met fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney at a church party and asked him to join his band, which at this time was the Quarry Men. The Quarry Men
“At a London soiree, Lennon sips coffee secretly spiked with LSD. ‘IT was just terrifying,’ he later says, ‘but it was fantastic.’ By his own tally, he will trip ‘a thousand’ times over the next few years (Romano par. 5).” This is not to say John had never done drugs before that moment. He had been used many lighter drugs for years before this moment, but the first time he used LSD use a life changing moment for him. It shaped the way he thought, it changed the way he wrote his music, and it negatively affected the way he treated the people he loved. This is not the only source of his mistreatment toured his