John Lennon – Ingliando

On this day, two Liverpool teenagers, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, met for the first time in a church auditorium. The occasion was the annual Woolton Parish Church Garden Fete, a parade and outdoor fair at which John and his Quarrymen Skiffle Group had been invited to play. Paul was in the crowd and was greatly impressed by John’s stage charisma. After the show, a mutual friend made the introduction in the nearby church auditorium. When Paul pulled out his guitar and started playing some Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent and Little Richard numbers, it was John’s turn to be impressed and two weeks later he invited Paul to join the Quarrymen. It was the start of one of the most fruitful musical partnerships in history.

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On this day John Lennon, musician, political activist, and one of the founding members of the pop group The Beatles, was shot dead by Mark David Chapman, outside his Manhattan flat in New York. Hit twice in the back and twice in the shoulder at close range, Lennon was rushed in a police car to the emergency room of Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:15 p.m. The assassination took place just three weeks after the release of the album “Double Fantasy”, Lennon’s comeback to music after spending five years at home bringing up his son, Sean. John Lennon’s death triggered an outpouring of grief on an unprecedented scale throughout the world.