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15. Lennon was considered the leader of The Beatles, as he founded the original group. McCartney said, 'We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader - he was the quickest wit and the smartest and all that kind of thing.'

16. Policemen struggle to restrain young Beatles fans outside Buckingham Palace as The Beatles receive their MBEs (Member of the British Empire) in 1965. John Lennon later returned his MBE in September 1969, in protest against British politics.

17. John Lennon posing on ski slopes for United Artist's Help!

18. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the Indian mystic who introduced British pop group The Beatles to transcendental meditation. Here he sits with George Harrison and John Lennon at the UNICEF Gala in Paris.

19. John held the now infamous ‘Bed-In’ for a peace event with wife Yoko Ono in both Amsterdam and Toronto; thus creating his anti-war anthem, Give Peace a Chance.

20. John had a strong affection for cats, actually having owned as many as six at a time.

21. When the Nixon Administration found out about Lennon's plans for a rock tour in support of anti-war organizing and voter registration, the Immigration and Naturalization Service made several attempts to deport Lennon.

22. John decided that he wanted to be a 'rocker,' after hearing Elvis Presley sing ‘HeartBreak Hotel’, and when Elvis and John met in 1965, Elvis was unsure of John's name, so he addressed him as ‘Beatle.

23. In one of his last major interviews Lennon said that he'd always been very macho and had never questioned his chauvinistic attitudes towards women until he met Ono.

24. Today Yoko Ono still proves herself to be a provocative and controversial artist and her Sean Lennon follows in his father’s footsteps as a singer, songwriter, musician and even an actor.

25. December 8, 1980 John Lennon was assassinated on December 8, 1980, as he returned to his New York apartment from a recording session

30. John was cremated at a private ceremony the day after his death. The whereabouts of his ashes have never been revealed. The memorial to J. Lennon in Central Park called: ’Strawberry Fields' still continues to draw people who leave tributes to him.

31. John was cremated at a private ceremony the day after his death. The whereabouts of his ashes have never been revealed. The memorial to J. Lennon in Central Park called: ’Strawberry Fields' still continues to draw people who leave tributes to him.

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