John Winston One Lennon（列侬）在1940年10月9日出生于英国Liverpool 一个工人家庭。Lennon的父亲在他只有3岁时就遗弃了家庭。Lennon小时候在姨母（Mimi）家长大，和很多缺乏父爱的孩子一样，Lennon叛逆性极强，喜欢画卡通片来嘲笑他的老师。但他他还是得到了姨父和姨母的指点和母亲的关爱。是母亲朱丽叶给他买了第一把吉他。母亲后来死于车祸16岁时，在看出他的音乐天赋的姨母央求下下，他所在的学校校长给他（列侬）写了一封推荐信，使列侬有机会利物浦的艺术学校上学。他开始迷恋音乐，在1957年初在学校里组织了一个摇滚乐队，便是世界闻名的Beatles乐队的前身。 他是个歌手，写手，作家，演员，更是一个爱好和平的艺术家。他用艺术的形式充分地发泄了的叛逆性，这在一部名为《As A Hard Day's Night》的电影和《In His Own Write》,有比较详细的记载。
这里有一段他当年接受采访时对《甲壳虫》乐队的解释：
Lennon: "I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it, but I just happened to be talking to a friend and I used the words "Beatles" as a remote thing, not as what I think - as Beatles, as those other Beatles like other people see us. I just said "they" are having more influence on kids and things than anything else, including Jesus. But I said it in that way which is the wrong way."
Reporter: "Some teenagers have repeated your statements - "I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What do you think about that?"
Lennon: "Well, originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England. That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
Reporter: "But are you prepared to apologise?"
Lennon: "I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologise if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologise, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."[70]
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Nobody ever loved me like she does,
oo, she does, yeh, she does.
And if somebody loved me like she do me,
oo, she do me, yes, she does.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
I'm in love for the first time.
Don't you know it's gonna last.
It's a love that lasts forever,
It's a love that had no past.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
And from the first time that she really done me,
oo, she done me, she done me good.
I guess nobody ever really done me,
oo, she done me, she done me good.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
Stand by me
PERFORMED BY JOHN LENNON (1975)
WHEN THE NIGHT HAS COME
AND THE LAND IS DARK
AND THE MOON IS THE ONLY LIGHT WE SEE
NO I WON'T BE AFRAID
NO I WON'T BE AFRAID
JUST AS LONG
AS YOU STAND, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DARLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
IF THE SKY
THAT WE LOOK UPON
SHOULD TUMBLE AND FALL
AND THE MOUNTAINS
SHOULD CRUMBLE
TO THE SEA
I WON'T CRY, I WON'T CRY
NO I WON'T SHARE A TEAR
JUST AS LONG
AS YOU STAND, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DA
RLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
WHENEVER YOUR IN TROUBLE
WON'T YOU STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
AND DARLING DARLING STAND BY ME
OH STAND BY ME
STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME, STAND BY ME
Imagine:
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one