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# Today on Doodle Google
- URL: https://blog.melardenio.com/today-on-doodle-google/
- Published: 2010-10-08T07:44:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-08T07:46:32.000Z
- Author: Rommell Ardenio
- Tags: Tech Tips & Gadgets

It’s John Lennon’s Birthday. The beatles band member was an english-songwriter. I notice when you click on the Image it will play “Imagine”. Try it now before it runs out.You can watch the video below. Again Happy Birthday John Lennon.

[](http://lh3.ggpht.com/%5F%5F46u1G65fcQ/TK7L79fJ6HI/AAAAAAAACZI/QdBQNiwAfhQ/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png?ref=blog.melardenio.com)

Click on the Play Button to watch Google’s tribute to John Lennon.

[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHCeUfoAnw?fs=1&hl=en%5FUS&ref=blog.melardenio.com)

Excerpt from wikipedia:

**John Winston Ono Lennon**, [MBE](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBritish%5FEmpire?ref=blog.melardenio.com) (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of [The Beatles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBeatles?ref=blog.melardenio.com), and together with [Paul McCartney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%5FMcCartney?ref=blog.melardenio.com) formed one of the most successful [songwriting partnerships](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennon/McCartney?ref=blog.melardenio.com) of the 20th century.

Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the [skiffle craze](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle%5Fgroup?ref=blog.melardenio.com#British%5Fskiffle%5Fcraze) as a teenager, his first band, [The Quarrymen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FQuarrymen?ref=blog.melardenio.com), evolving into [The Beatles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FBeatles?ref=blog.melardenio.com) in 1960\. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up towards the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including [*John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLennon/Plastic%5FOno%5FBand?ref=blog.melardenio.com) and [*Imagine*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine%5F%28album%29?ref=blog.melardenio.com), and iconic songs such as "[Give Peace a Chance](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give%5FPeace%5Fa%5FChance?ref=blog.melardenio.com)" and "[Imagine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine%5F%28song%29?ref=blog.melardenio.com)".

Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music, his writing, on film, and in interviews, and became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the [Vietnam War](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam%5FWar?ref=blog.melardenio.com) resulted in a lengthy attempt by [Richard Nixon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%5FNixon?ref=blog.melardenio.com)'s administration to deport him, while his songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. Disengaging himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family, Lennon reemerged in 1980 with a comeback album, [*Double Fantasy*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%5FFantasy?ref=blog.melardenio.com), but was [murdered](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%5Fof%5FJohn%5FLennon?ref=blog.melardenio.com) three weeks after its release.

Lennon's solo album sales in the United States alone stand at 14 million units,[\[1\]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLennon?ref=blog.melardenio.com#cite%5Fnote-FOOTNOTERIAA2010b-0) and as performer, writer, or co-writer he is responsible for 27 number one singles on the US [Hot 100](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%5FHot%5F100?ref=blog.melardenio.com) chart.[a](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FLennon?ref=blog.melardenio.com#endnote%5Ffn%5Fa) In 2002, a BBC poll on the [100 Greatest Britons](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%5FGreatest%5FBritons?ref=blog.melardenio.com) 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriters%5FHall%5Fof%5FFame?ref=blog.melardenio.com) in 1987 and into the [Rock and Roll Hall of Fame](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%5Fand%5FRoll%5FHall%5Fof%5FFame?ref=blog.melardenio.com) in 1994.