John Lennon - Facts for Kids

John Lennon performed in hundreds of concerts with The Beatles — from small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg to huge stadium shows — and the band played a total of over a thousand live shows during their touring years.

John Lennon helped write “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” for The Beatles, and it was one of the first Beatles songs to use a sitar, played by George Harrison.

The last song John Lennon worked on in the studio was “Walking on Thin Ice,” which he recorded with Yoko Ono just hours before he died in December 1980 — he even held the final tape as he left the studio that night.

Some of John Lennon’s songs — like “Imagine” — have been translated into many languages by fans and artists around the world.

John Lennon performed at The Beatles' famous rooftop concert in London.

John Lennon once let his son Julian play drums during a studio session when Julian was about 11 — but they didn’t release a song together as an official recording.

Fun Facts & Trivia

John Lennon loved eating Corn Flakes with cream for breakfast — he enjoyed stirring the cereal and cream together and eating it as a tasty treat!

John Lennon’s favorite color was said to be green — many sources list green as the color he liked best.

John Lennon’s first real guitar was a Gallotone Champion acoustic guitar, and he used it in his early band days before he got bigger electric guitars.

John Lennon was right‑handed and played his guitar the usual way, but because he and Paul McCartney practiced so much together, they sometimes learned to play each other’s guitars flipped upside‑down too!

John Lennon loved Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. He got a copy as a boy, drew the characters, and said the magical stories inspired his imagination and even some of his music!

John Lennon loved to be funny and often made silly faces or goofy expressions to make people laugh, especially when he was joking around off‑stage.

John Lennon lived in New York City for the last years of his life — he moved there in 1971 and stayed until he died in 1980.

John Lennon wrote the Beatles’ song “Dear Prudence” about Prudence Farrow, the sister of actress Mia Farrow.