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Thursday, January 6, 2011

John Lennon (Reading material, Januari 5 2011)

John Winston Lennon
       This is a short biography of John Lennon. In terms of reading activity for the class involved, this material is used to gain self-development. So, check this out!


      John Winston Lennon was born October 9th, 1940 in Liverpool, England to Fred and Julia Lennon. When he was young, his parents separated and he went to live with his Aunt Mimi. John's mother Julia was struck car resulting in her death. John was devastated. He became a hand-full in school. John's school master thought, since he didn't pay much attention in school, except for drawing doodles, that John could go to an art school. He made it to art school. During this time, he met a woman by the name of Cynthia Powell, who later became his first wife. At sixteen, John created the group called the "Quarry Men". At this point, Paul joined the group, then came George. And so the story continued that the Quarry Men evolved into the Beatles. Stu Sutcliffe, a life-long friend of John's and an original member of the Beatles, died suddenly of a brain aneurism in Hamburg. As the group evolved Pete Best left the group and Ringo Starr joined. John married Cynthia Powell in August 1962 and they had a son together who they called Julian. The marriage didn't last long, John and Cynthia divorced a couple years later. John met Yoko Ono soon after and they were married. In 1970, the Beatles broke up, after Paul McCartney had announced that he was suing the group to get out of the contract agreements. After the group broke up, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, carried on intertwined solo career. John Lennon and Yoko Ono promoted peace by staging "Bed-ins" and their peace campaign with speeches to the press; "War Is Over! If You Want It" with massive billboards in 12 cities all over the world. John disappeared from the public eye in 1975. For the next five years, be lived at home in nearly total seclusion, taking care of his new son, Sean, while Ono ran the couple’s financial affairs. In 1980, John and Yoko started work on the album "Double Fantasy" but John's return was short-lived. On December 8th 1980, John was shot by a "lunatic" by whom's name I will not give. (People like that don't deserve fame.) John's memory will live forever in the hearts of his fans. (taken from: http://www.angelfire.com/celeb/Shannon/John.html, edited by MJ)
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Please use the material properly for your progress in reading. Thank you. E.S

2 komentar:

bee'win said...

Would U please make this material to be an audio file like what U've done to Daniel Mendoza's file??
thank U

EnglishSaraswati said...

Good idea bee'win, but to make it as the audio format as in Daniel Mendoza needs a native speaker to do that. If you request another reading audio file taken from the book entitled 'Developing skill', I will try my best to upload it for your progress in reading. Thank you ;) E.S

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