What did future generations say about John Lennon?

John winston lennon, a member of the famous British rock band The Beatles, is one of the greatest musicians, poets and social activists in the history of rock and roll. On February 8, John was shot dead in front of his apartment. The murderer mark david chapman always fired six shots. Later, the fan was arrested by the police and sentenced to live in a mental hospital for life. 65438+February 14 at 2 pm, Lennon's global fans collectively mourned for him 10 minutes, and his unexpected death also caused the sales of records such as Double Fantasy to soar around the world.

In the years after Lennon's death, his influence and reputation grew day by day. Until the mid-1980s, some of Lennon's unreleased tracks were listed one after another, and the video of a charity performance he participated in at 1972 was also collected by many fans. In addition, in order to commemorate Lennon, several founding members of the Beatles re-recorded several old songs popular in the 1970s at 1995, and these songs later appeared on the charts of 1996 as new songs.

In 2000, "Lennon fever" made a comeback. A large number of books about this cultural icon have been published, among which Geoffrey Giuliano's Lennon in America, robert rosen's Nowhere: John Lennon's Last Days and Lennon's Members: Full Interview with Rolling Stones since 1970 are famous. It can be said that Lennon and his Beatles influenced a whole generation and will continue to do so. Even Liverpool Airport in England is named after John Lennon, and the slogan is "There is only the sky above us" in John Lennon's famous song Imagine.