The Beatles

The Beatles There are many different conversational ideas that The Beatles put into words with in their songs. John Lennon was a great man that only had a chance to live through his fans. His life was put onto files and films and records so that everyone in the world could see what the group was about. They werent scared of the fact that they were going to be chewed up by the people that disliked them. In his quote at the John Sinclair Concert, (a protest tribute), he said, We came here to show and say to all of you that apathy isnt it, we can do something, okay so flower power didnt work. So what, we start again. While he was speaking he was being recorded by the F.B.I. that had a plan of the own, to stop John and his group. John Lennon, and The Beatles, not only with their music, but also with his feared political powers changed American History with his stardom. It wasnt easy time for john while he was growing up. He never saw his father because he was always out at sea, as a ship waiter. His sister, Mimi raised him at age five, because his mother, Julia, wasnt able to care for him as a baby, she wasnt fit, or able to care for anyone at that point in her life. John, Mimi, and his only father figure, his sisters husband, George raised him on the little they had, in a respectable suburb, in Liverpool. When John was twelve he lost his uncle George and with that brought john and Mimi down to a lower social class. At age sixteen in 1956, one of his friends played him, Long Tall Sally, by Little Richard. Lennon said, When I herd it, it was so great I couldnt speak.(Connoly, John Lennon, pg. 32) This sparked johns new found interest in rock n roll. Hs passion was pushed by th