
John Lennon
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 9, 1940
- Died
- December 8, 1980 (aged 40)
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
John Winston Ono 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.
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The Beatles - 1967-1970
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Inside the Beatles: 1962-1970
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Building the Beatles
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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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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John Lennon: The Last Interview
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One to One: John & Yoko
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Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade
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The Beatles
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TWST / Things We Said Today
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As Aventuras de Will e Mike no jardim do Éden
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A Love Letter to the Beatles
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The Beatles - Free As A Bird: A Song Reborn
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The Beatles: The Sound of a Revolution
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The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
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Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
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David Frost Vs
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The Beach Boys
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The Bannfoot Ferry
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Hinckley
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Elton John: Never Too Late
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Daytime Revolution
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Beatles '64
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Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands
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No Hamburg, No Beatles
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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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La Historia del Fan Project Paul McCartney MX 2024
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DEVO
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Louder Than Rock
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Sounds of Liverpool at the BBC
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Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
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Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song
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The Beatles and the BBC
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Little Richard: I Am Everything
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Paul McCartney: Got Back
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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
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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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John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
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Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
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The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
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The Beatles: 1964 US Tour Reconstruction
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If These Walls Could Sing
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Mickey: The Story of a Mouse
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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Ringo Starr: One of Them
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How much LSD did The Beatles do in the 1960s?
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Behind the Lyrics: The Beatles
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Infamous Crime Scenes: John Lennon
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Best of the 60s: The Story of Ready, Steady, Go!
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Under the Volcano
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The Beatles and India
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Life In Ten Pictures: John Lennon
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Parkinson at 50
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The Beatles: Get Back
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This Is Pop
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A Life in Ten Pictures
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1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
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McCartney 3, 2, 1
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Zappa
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John Lennon: His Life, Legacy, Last Days
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Meeting the Beatles in India
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Lennon's Last Weekend
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Jealous Guy: The Assassination of John Lennon
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Lennon & McCartney: Hello From Liverpool
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The Shadows At Sixty
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Paul McCartney: Wings of a Beatle
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Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
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The Last 24 Hours: John Lennon
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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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Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
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Take Your Pills
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
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The Beatles – Ready Steady Go!
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The King
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Looking for Lennon
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Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
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John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky
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George Harrison - All Things Pass
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In Search of Greatness
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Elvis Presley: The Searcher
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I Don't Know Which Tree It Comes From that Fragrance
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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
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How the Beatles Changed the World
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Sgt Pepper's Musical Revolution
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Free to Rock
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Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
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Kyoko
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John Lennon: Hard to Imagine
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My Generation
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Året var 1967
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The Summer of Love
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The Defiant Ones
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Beatles chronology (1962-1970)
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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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Deconstructing the Beatles' White Album
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WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)
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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
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Andy Warhol, Fluorescent
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The Beatles 1
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The Beatles 1+
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
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The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
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The Last Lennon Interview
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In Their Own Words
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Beatles på Sverigeturné
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When the Beatles Drove Us Wild
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John Lennon - Imagine
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Good Ol' Freda
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Population Boom
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Salinger
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
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Året var 1963
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
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The Beatles: In Chicago 1964-1966
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Genius
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Becoming the Beatles
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Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
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The Winged Beetle
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Palme
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The Beatles: Their Golden Age
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Jonas Mekas: I Am Not a Filmmaker
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Infamous Assassinations
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Beatles Stories
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The Beatles - Unsurpassed Promos
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I Was There: When the Beatles Played the Cavern
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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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Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1973-1980
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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Mentiras verdaderas
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

George Harrison: Living in the Material World
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The 4 Complete Ed Sullivan Shows Starring The Beatles
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
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The Beatles: A Magical History Tour
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Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison
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LennoNYC
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John Lennon: Love Is All You Need
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Discovering Lennon
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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
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The Beatles: Fifty Fabulous Years
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The Day John Lennon Died
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Imagine Lennon
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The Beatles: The Complete Story
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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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The Rise & Fall of WCW
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The Beatles: Here There and Everywhere
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O Melhor do Flash Back - 92 Clipes Para Recordar
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The Beatles - Composing Outside The Beatles: Lennon & McCartney 1967-1972
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Project 9: The Making of The Beatles: Rock Band
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Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
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Classic Albums: John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon & McCartney 1966-1970
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The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour Memories
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Composing the Beatles Songbook: Lennon and McCartney 1957 - 1965
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The Beatles: Turn Left at Greenland
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Red Album 1962 - 1966
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: The Blue Album 1967 - 1970
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The Beatles: Up Close and Personal
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The 60s: The Beatles Decade
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THE BEATLES in HELP!
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The Beatles Explosion
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365 Day Project
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The Beatles: Destination Hamburg
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
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I Met the Walrus
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Rock Milestones: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
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The Beatles Phenomenon
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The Beatles In America
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Give Peace A Song
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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Doctor Who: Origins
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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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The Ballad of AJ Weberman
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The Beatles: Love Me Do - A Documentary
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The Beatles: Chronology Vol. 1 y 2
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The Beatles: Get Back...Winter of Discontent
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I Killed John Lennon
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Pink Floyd London '66-'67
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The World's Greatest Gigs
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Meet the Beatles
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Rock 'N' Roll Forever: Ed Sullivan's Greatest Hits
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The Beatles: Watching Rainbows
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Brian Epstein: Inside the Fifth Beatle
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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
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Beatles Biggest Secrets
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20th Century Greats
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Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon
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The Beatles: Around the World
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Beatles: The Journey
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Inside John Lennon - Unauthorized
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Imagine Imagine
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The Beatles - Trilogy
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The Beatles: A Long and Winding Road
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Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock 'N' Roll Revolution: The British Invade America, America Fights Back
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Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
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Things They Said Today
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Hanratty: The Whole Truth
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Naqoyqatsi
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Elvis: King of Entertainment
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Monday Night Mayhem
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John Lennon: The Messenger
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Wingspan
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Beatles: Big Beat Box
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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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The Real John Lennon
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The Beatles: A Celebration
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Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
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Television: The First Fifty Years
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Grass
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Naked and Free - The History of Free Body Culture
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In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story
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Happy Birthday to John
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Behind the Music
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

Classic Albums
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The Beatles Unauthorized
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Alf Bicknell's Beatles Diary
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
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The Beatles Story
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You Can't Do That! The Making of 'A Hard Day's Night'
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The Beatles Anthology
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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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The John Lennon Video Collection
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Rolling Stone 25: The MTV Special
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The Beatles: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
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Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
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The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit
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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
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Lennon: A Tribute
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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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Fun with the Fab Four
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John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
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The John Lennon Sketchbook
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Vain Glory
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The Real Buddy Holly Story
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British Rock: The First Wave
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John Lennon: A Journey in the Life
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The Falcon and the Snowman
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Yoko Ono: Then and Now
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When the Music's Over
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First Tuesday
TV · 1 ep

Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
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The Compleat Beatles
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Timewatch
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

This Is Elvis
Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Killing of America
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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 Day the Music Died
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The Beatles at Shea Stadium
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Mighty Good: The Beatles
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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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Fire in the Water
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Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol
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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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Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
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Imagine
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Eat the Document
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John Lennon - Imagine
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The One to One Concert
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Sweet Toronto
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Brazil in Cannes
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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
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Up Your Legs Forever
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Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
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Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
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Dynamite Chicken
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Yoko and John Party
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The Old Grey Whistle Test
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Let It Be
Movie · as Self - The Beatles (uncredited)

Apotheosis
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The Beatles: Something
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24 Hours: The World of John and Yoko
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The Beatles: Abbey Road
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Bed Peace
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Self-Portrait
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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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Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
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Hawaii Five-O
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The Movie Orgy
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The Beatles: Revolution
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The Beatles Mod Odyssey
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Film No. 5
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Two Virgins
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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Yellow Submarine
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Beatles Electroniques
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The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 3 eps
Frost on Sunday
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Magical Mystery Tour
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How I Won the War
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Our World
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All You Need Is Love
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Monument
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Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever
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Omnibus
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El Rey en Londres
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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 Beatles: Live at Circus-Krone-Bau, Munich, Germany
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The Beatles: In Japan (7/1/1966)
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The Music of Lennon & McCartney
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Help!
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Doctor Who: The Chase
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

Pop Gear
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The Beatles: Live in Paris
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The Beatles
TV · as Self (vocals musical segments) (uncredited) · 39 eps

A Hard Day's Night
Movie · as John

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York
Movie · as Self (archive footage)

The Beatles: Live at the Washington Coliseum
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The Beatles Sing for Shell
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The Beatles in Australia
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The Beatles: Live in The Netherlands
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Around the Beatles
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What's Happening! The Beatles in the USA
Movie · as Self - The Beatles Member
Not Only... But Also
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Top of the Pops
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The Mersey Sound
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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 Merv Griffin Show
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Morecambe & Wise
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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