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John Lennon was a British musician and member of The Beatles, known for his activism and music.

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and Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro held a rally with his supporters this weekend where he sang part of Imagine, John Lennon's iconic song.

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Well, it's... I mean, McCartney wrote it, but it's back in the Lennon-McCartney days.

The Rest Is History
The Beatles: The British Invasion, with Conan O’Brien (Part 2)

John Lennon has made unwise comments about Jesus and provoked outrage in the Bible Belt in the United States.

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Somebody who would have been celebrating is John Lennon today.

Fresh Air
With 'I Love Lucy,' Desi Arnaz Changed TV Forever

Even so, Lennon's activities got him singled out by the Nixon administration, which threatened to deport him and installed listening devices on his phone. And just as President Nixon ended up secretly taping his own White House conversations, John Lennon ended up taping his own phone calls, too.

Fresh Air
With 'I Love Lucy,' Desi Arnaz Changed TV Forever

He fell in with activists like Jerry Rubin and appeared and performed at a rally protesting the 10-year sentence of another activist, John Sinclair, for a minor drug possession. But after agreeing to headline a series of national protest tour dates leading up to the 1972 national political conventions, Lenin backed off because he sensed the leaders of that movement were advocating violence.

Fresh Air
With 'I Love Lucy,' Desi Arnaz Changed TV Forever

In their small Greenwich Village apartment, which is recreated for the documentary, John and Yoko installed a TV at the foot of their bed so they could lounge around watching. And both the variety and sheer volume of what was available delighted them.