John Lennon
John Beatle Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Along with fellow Beatle Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, but re-emerged in 1980 with a new album, Double Fantasy. He was murdered by Mark Chapman three weeks after its release. Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, his drawings, on film, and in interviews, and he became controversial through his political and peace activism. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement. As of 2010, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceed 14 million units, and as writer, co-writer or performer, he is responsible for 27 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth, and in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all-time. He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Born: 09 October 1940 • Died: 08 December 1980
Played In
John Lennon: The Last Interview
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
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Man on the Run
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Evolver 62
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The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
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The Beatles Anthology
A Love Letter to the Beatles
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As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
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The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
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Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
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TWST / Things We Said Today
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One to One: John & Yoko
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The Beatles
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David Frost Vs
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La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
No Hamburg, No Beatles
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Beatles '64
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Elton John: Never Too Late
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Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
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Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
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Here Today
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Daytime Revolution
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Hinckley
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The Bannfoot Ferry
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The Beach Boys
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Paul McCartney: Got Back
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Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
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John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
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The Beatles and the BBC
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Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
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Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
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Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
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Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
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Louder Than Rock
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
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Infamous Crime Scenes: John Lennon
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
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If These Walls Could Sing
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Ringo Starr: One of Them
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
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Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
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The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
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How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
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The Beatles: Get Back
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The Beatles and India
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Parkinson at 50
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McCartney 3, 2, 1
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Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
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Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
A Life in Ten Pictures
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Under the Volcano
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This Is Pop
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Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
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Zappa
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John Lennon: His Life, Legacy, Last Days
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Lennon's Last Weekend
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Meeting the Beatles in India
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Understanding McCartney
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The Shadows At Sixty
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Lennon & McCartney: Hello From Liverpool
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Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
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Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
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Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 2
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Deconstructing the Beatles' Abbey Road: Side 1
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The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
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Understanding Lennon/McCartney
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John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
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The King
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The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
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Looking for Lennon
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Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
Elvis Presley: The Searcher
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
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George Harrison - All Things Pass
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Take Your Pills
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John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
How the Beatles Changed the World
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My Generation
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
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The Defiant Ones
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The Summer of Love
Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
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Free to Rock
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Kyoko
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Året var 1967
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
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Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
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Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
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Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
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The Last Lennon Interview
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The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
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The Beatles 1
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The Beatles 1+
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In Their Own Words
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
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Beatles på Sverigeturné
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
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Population Boom
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Good Ol' Freda
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Salinger
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Året var 1963
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Genius
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
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Palme
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The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
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The Beatles: Their Golden Age
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Infamous Assassinations
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Becoming the Beatles
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The Winged Beetle
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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Beatles Stories
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Mentiras verdaderas
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 1
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 4
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 3
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The Beatles: Recovered Archives Vol. 2
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I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
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The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
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Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1973-1980
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The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
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The Day John Lennon Died
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
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Discovering Lennon
LennoNYC
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The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
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Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
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John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
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Imagine Lennon
archives footages
The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
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The Beatles: The Complete Story
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The Rise & Fall of WCW
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The Beatles - Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1967-1972
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The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
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The Beatles: The Mini Documentaries
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The Beatles on Record
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The Beatles: Parting Ways
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O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
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The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
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The 60s: The Beatles Decade
Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966
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Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
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The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
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The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
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365 Day Project
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The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
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THE BEATLES in HELP!
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The Beatles Phenomenon
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I Met the Walrus
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
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The Beatles Explosion
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The Beatles In America
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The Beatles: Love
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To John With Love
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John & Yoko Bed-In
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Warhol and Maciunas
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
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The Ballad of AJ Weberman
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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Doctor Who: Origins
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I Killed John Lennon
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The World's Greatest Gigs
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Pink Floyd London '66-'67
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The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
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The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
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Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
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The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
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Meet the Beatles
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
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20th Century Greats
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The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
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Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
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Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
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The Beatles: Around the World
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Imagine Imagine
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Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
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Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
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Beatles: The Journey
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The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
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The Beatles - Trilogy
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Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
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Things They Said Today
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Naqoyqatsi
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John Lennon: The Messenger
Hanratty: The Whole Truth
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Monday Night Mayhem
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Elvis: King of Entertainment
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Beatles: Big Beat Box
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Wingspan
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The Real John Lennon
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Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album
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John & Yoko's Year of Peace
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Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
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Grass
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Naked and Free - The History of Free Body Culture
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The Beatles: A Celebration
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Television: The First Fifty Years
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Happy Birthday to John
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Behind the Music
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Classic Albums
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
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The Beatles Story
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The Beatles Unauthorized
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Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
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The Beatles Anthology
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
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The Beatles In Australia: 30th Anniversary
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Ready Steady Go! The Beatles Live
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Annie Leibovitz 1993 Phaidon Documentary
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Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
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Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
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The John Lennon Video Collection
The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
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Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
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Imagine: John Lennon
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Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
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Jimi Plays Monterey
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The John Lennon Sketchbook
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
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Vain Glory
John Lennon
John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
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Fun with the Fab Four
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John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
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British Rock: The First Wave
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The Real Buddy Holly Story
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Yoko Ono: Then and Now
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When the Music's Over
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The Compleat Beatles
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Timewatch
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Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
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The Killing of America
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This Is Elvis
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Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
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The Beatles at Shea Stadium
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Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
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Mighty Good: The Beatles
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The Day the Music Died
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Fire in the Water
Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
A Salute to Sir Lew Grade
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Braverman's Condensed Cream of the Beatles
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Muhammad Ali, the Greatest
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Oh Yoko!
Himself (voice)
Imagine
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The One to One Concert
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Eat the Document
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John Lennon - Imagine
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
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Yoko and John Party
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Brazil in Cannes
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
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Sweet Toronto
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The Old Grey Whistle Test
Up Your Legs Forever
Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
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Dynamite Chicken
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Apotheosis
Let It Be
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Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
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24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
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The Beatles: Something
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The Beatles: Abbey Road
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Self-Portrait
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Bed Peace
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume One
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Two
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The Beatles - The Get Back Chronicles 1969 Volume Three
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Beatles Electroniques
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The Beatles Mod Odyssey
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Film No. 5
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Hawaii Five-O
Huffman
The Beatles: Revolution
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Frost on Sunday
Self (as The Beatles)
Yellow Submarine
John (uncredited)
Two Virgins
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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The Movie Orgy
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Magical Mystery Tour
Self / Ticket Salesman / Magician with Coffee / Narrator
How I Won the War
Gripweed
Omnibus
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All You Need Is Love
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Our World
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Monument
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Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
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El Rey en Londres
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The Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
Self - The Beatles
The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
Self - Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
The Beatles: In Japan (6/30/1966)
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The Beatles - In Germany 24-26 June, 1966
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Reflections on Love
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The Music of Lennon & McCartney
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The Beatles: Live in Paris
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The Beatles
Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited)
Help!
John
Doctor Who: The Chase
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Pop Gear
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Not Only... But Also
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What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Self - The Beatles Member
The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
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A Hard Day's Night
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The Beatles Sing for Shell
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The Beatles in Australia
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Around the Beatles
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The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
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Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops
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The Beatles Come to Town
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The Beatles - Live at The Empire Theatre Liverpool
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The Mersey Sound
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The Merv Griffin Show
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Morecambe & Wise
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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The Beatles - 1967-1970
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Beatles
Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970