JOHN LENNON GIVES PEACE A CHANCE, ONE MORE TIME

Today, The Winsors and The Grandma have met John Lennon and Yoko Ono, two of the most important artists of the last century, to celebrate Susana Winsor's birthday.

 

The have been talking about peace and war, and about hippie and punk movements with the figures of Cyndi Lauper and Gillian Anderson, and about the political situation in the USA and Europe during the Vietnam and Falkland Islands wars until nowadays.

 

Before the meeting, the family has revised again the Possessive Pronouns and they have studied the Comparative of Superiority. 

Happy birthday, sister! Enjoy your day!

 

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John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 1940–8 December 1980) was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded The Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated songwriting partnership.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle craze as a teenager; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into the Beatles in 1960. 

When the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced albums including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as Give Peace a Chance, Working Class Hero, and Imagine. After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, writing, drawings, on film and in interviews. Controversial through his political and peace activism, he moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him, while some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.

At around 10:50 p.m. on 8 December 1980, as Lennon and Ono returned to their New York apartment in the Dakota, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times in the archway of the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival at 11:00 p.m. Earlier that evening, Lennon had autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for Chapman.

Ono issued a statement the next day, saying There is no funeral for John, ending it with the words, John loved and prayed for the human race. Please pray the same for him. His body was cremated at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Ono scattered his ashes in New York's Central Park, where the Strawberry Fields Memorial was later created. Chapman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life. In 2016, he was denied parole for a ninth time.

 

More information: John Lennon Official Website

  

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, 

is to try and express what we all feel. 

Not to tell people how to feel. 

Not as a preacher, not as a leader, 

but as a reflection of us all. 

John Lennon

HAPPY BIRTHDAY "LITTLE SARA", YOU ARE THE FUTURE!

Cris Bean & "Little Sara" Bean

Sara Bean, aka "Little Sara" is a fan of The Beans family. She was born in a day like today ten years ago in San Francisco, California.  

Sara Bean is an intelligent and clever girl who studies very hard to become in a great genius in a closer future. Sara has lots of friends and she is a funny and beautiful girl.

Some weeks ago, San Francisco received some important news: The Beans family were going to visit it. Then, Sara Bean participated in a contest in her school about The Beans and she won it. 

She wrote a wonderful composition about how she thought a family must be and she said that, although the perfect family doesn't exist, she would like to know The Beans because they are a multicultural family, every member of the family has a different origin and speaks a different language but it doesn't matter because it's not important where you come, the most important is where you are going to arrive.

Little Sara visits Berkley University, California

Sara's dream is a reality today, in her 10th birthday because The Beans have visited her and she has guided them in their visit to Berkeley, where you can find the most popular university in California, cradle of the most important social movements. Sara knows that if she works very hard, if she studies a lot and if she follows her parents' advice, she will arrive to study in Berkeley, if she wants, or wherever she wanted, because a good formation is the key for a better future.

Congratulations, "Little Sara"! Thanks for travelling to Berkeley with us and enjoy this wonderful day with our fantastic family.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift. 

Aretha Franklin