26Lennon's Astrology Prediction
John Lennon and Yoko Ono once visited an astrologer who told them John would be shot and die on an island. They were so disturbed that they canceled their extended Greek Isles vacation. Ten years later, he died on Manhattan Island.
27. John Lennon loved the Beatles Parody band ‘The Rutles.’ It was created by Monty Python's Eric Idle for a BBC sketch. He loved it so much that he refused to hand back the preview tape.
28. John Lennon originally wrote "Come Together" as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, who was running for governor of California at the time. When the song didn't work out, Lennon took it to the Beatles. It was the last song all four Beatles cut together.
29. Not long after John Lennon received his first guitar, his aunt Mimi (his guardian at the time) told him, "The guitar's all very well, John, but you'll never make a living out of it." Three years later, The Beatles formed.
30. John Lennon wrote the Beatles song 'Dear Prudence' for Prudence Farrow (Mia's sister) while studying Transcendental Meditation in India. The group became worried about her because she spent the majority of her time alone in her room practicing meditation, so John wrote her a song to persuade her to socialize more.
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31Lennon's Out Of Tune Guitar
John Lennon purposely tuned the D string low on his guitar making it "slightly out of tune" to make it recognizable on mono recordings from the other Beatles.
32. John Lennon was offered the role of Jesus in the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" but would only accept on the condition that Yoko played Mary Magdalene. The offer was then withdrawn.
33. In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held two week-long Bed-Ins for Peace, which were intended to be non-violent protests against wars and experimental tests of new ways to promote peace.
34. In 1968, John Lennon, after taking a large amount of LSD, called an emergency meeting of The Beatles to inform them that he was in fact, Jesus Christ reincarnated.
35. John Lennon never said, "Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles." It was uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983, three years after Lennon's death.
