![]() ![]() John and the Beatles continued to tour and perform live until 1966, when protests over his calling the Beatles phenomenon "more popular than Jesus" and the frustrations of touring made the band decide to quit the road. ![]() medals in 1965, for import revenues from their record sales John returned his four years later, as part of an antiwar statement. Queen Elizabeth II granted all four Beatles M.B.E. The next year the Beatles flew to America to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show), and Beatlemania spread worldwide. That same year, John's first wife Cynthia Lennon welcomed their only son Julian Lennon, named after John's mother. ![]() Of their singles "Love Me Do" and "Please Please Me". After some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany, "Beatlemania" erupted in England and Europe in 1963 after the release In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, later became The Beatles. ![]() He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. ![]()
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