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How Did The Lennon's Rights Movement

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Lennon left the Beatles in September 1969, just after they completed recording Abbey Road. The news of the break-up was kept secret until McCartney announced his departure in April 1970, a month before the band released Let It Be, which was recorded just before Abbey Road. Not long after the Beatles broke up, in 1970, Lennon released his debut solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, featuring a raw, minimalist sound that followed "primal-scream" therapy. He followed it with 1971's Imagine, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed of all Lennon's post-Beatles efforts. The title track was later named number 3 on Rolling Stone magazine's "All-Time Best Songs" list. Lennon and Ono moved to the United States in September 1971, but they were …show more content…

Documents later proved him correct two years after Nixon resigned which granted him permanent U.S. residency. His immigration battle took a toll on Lennon's marriage, which led to him and Ono separating in the fall of 1973. Lennon and Ono reconciled in 1974, and she gave birth to their only child, a son named Sean, on Lennon's 35th birthday (October 9, 1975). Shortly thereafter, Lennon decided to leave the music business to focus on being a father and husband. In 1980, John Lennon returned to the music world with the album Double Fantasy, featuring the hit single "(Just Like) Starting Over." Sadly just a few weeks after the album's release, Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan, shot him several times in front of his apartment in New York City. He died at the Hospital on December 8, 1980, at the age of 40. Following the tragic event, millions of fans worldwide mourned as record sales soared. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in

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