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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Channeled by Karl Mollison 10April2018

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Channeled by Karl Mollison 10April2018

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. He is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.

King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled “Beyond Vietnam”. J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963 on.

In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign, when he was [allegedly] assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee; riots followed in many U.S. cities. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.

Questions for Light Being Martin Luther King Jr. 10April2018

1) What parallels and lessons from Ghandi’s and your own struggles can be used for the current situation between humans and the ET Alliance?

2) Now you that have a Light Being’s perspective what improvements to the non-violent movement for social change would be recommended?

3) Dr. William Pepper’s latest book about your death and Dr. Bland correct? Is that book a reliable account of what happened?

4) The motivation for your murder is explained by some as a matter of money and the greed of those who run the military industrial complex, would you agree with that now?

5) What kinds of Divine intervention did you notice during your incarnation and what kinds of Divine intervention could we expect to see as things develop for humanity over the next ten years?

6) Why are we being warned of only having a 10 year window of opportunity to save humanity? In what way will the free will of humans be impaired by the time we see the year 2027?

7) How is the doctrine of non-violence applicable with respect to the situation on Earth now?

Carrie Fisher Channeled by Karl Mollison 03April2018

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Carrie Fisher Channeled by Karl Mollison 03April2018

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Fisher

Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016)

She was an American actress, writer, and humorist. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for three Saturn Awards.

Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The ’Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally… (1989), Soapdish(1991), and The Women (2008). She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series 30 Rock and Catastrophe.

She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Fisher wrote several semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge and an autobiographical one-woman play, and its non-fiction book, Wishful Drinking, based on the play.

She wrote the screenplay for the film version of Postcards From The Edge which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and her one-woman stage show of Wishful Drinking was filmed for television and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special.

She worked on other writers’ screenplays as a script doctor, including tightening the scripts for Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Wedding Singer (1998), and many of the films from the Star Wars franchise, among others. In later years, she earned praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar disorder and drug addiction.

Fisher was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. She and her mother appear in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a documentary about their relationship. It premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Fisher died of sudden cardiac death on December 27, 2016, at age 60, four days after experiencing a medical emergency during a transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles. Her final film, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was released on December 15, 2017 and is dedicated to her.

The day after Fisher’s death, her mother Debbie Reynolds suffered a stroke at the home of son Todd, where the family was planning Fisher’s burial arrangements. She was taken to a hospital, where she died later that afternoon.[130][131] According to Todd Fisher, Reynolds had said, “I want to be with Carrie” immediately prior to suffering the stroke. On January 5, 2017, a joint private memorial was held for Fisher and Reynolds. A portion of Fisher’s ashes were laid to rest beside Reynolds in a crypt at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills. The remainder of her ashes are held in a giant, novelty Prozac pill.

Questions for Light Being Carrie Fisher 03April2018

1) You and your mother, Debbie Reynolds, were earthbound spirits after passing and became attached to one another and then you were both rescued. What was that like before and after the rescue?

2) Now that you have the Light Being’s perspective, what are your views on mental health?

3) Were entity attachments a factor in your addiction to drugs and is that a factor in all human drug addictions?

4) What aspects or storylines from the Star Wars movies tell the truth about the human situation?

5) Most notable to the public in your later life was the closeness you had with your mother Debbie Reynolds, now that you have the Light Being’s perspective, can you discuss this along with the Karmic background you shared with your mother?

6) We have been told that all lifetimes, past, present, and future, are running concurrently in the Now. Does that complicate the workings of karma through the Law of Cause and Effect, or does that simplify things in ways hard for us to grasp? If lifetime incarnations are parallel how is it that past life Karma plays a role in one’s current life?

David Koresh Channeled by Karl Mollison 27March2018

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David Koresh Channeled by Karl Mollison 27March2018

Adapted from https://www.biography.com/people/david-koresh-9368416
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David Koresh August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993 was the American leader of the Branch Davidians sect, believing himself to be its final prophet.

Koresh came from a dysfunctional family background and was a member, and later a leader, of the Shepherds Rod, a reform movement led by Victor Houteff that arose from within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Koresh joined a spiritual group that was based at the Mount Carmel Center outside Waco, Texas, where the group took the name “Branch Davidians”.

The serving of arrest and search warrants by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) as part of an investigation into illegal possession of firearms and explosives provoked the historic 1993 raid on the center.

Four ATF agents and six Davidians were killed during the initial two-hour firefight, both sides claiming the other side fired first. The subsequent siege by the FBI ended when the center was set on fire — Koresh and 79 others were found dead after the conflagration.

Discoveries by film makers Jason Van Fleet confirmed thatFederal Government agencies along with the Military used pyrotechnic devices, shape charged explosives and automatic and/or semi-automatic rifle fire to kill many of the Branch Davidians as some of them apparently attempted to escape during the fire on April 19, 1993.

The film, Waco – A New Revelation, also revealed that decisions leading to this massacre likely were made in the White House during the Clinton administration.

Is there a deeper reason for such a debacle in the humanexperience that is being overlooked?

Questions for Light Being David Koresh 27 March 2018

1) Does the move WACO – A New Revelation directed by Jason Van Fleet give an accurate account of the WACO massacre?

2) Who was the God that spoke to you? How did you identify him then and how you identify him now?

3) What specifically did the extraterrestrials do to you and the ATF, FBI and other Law Enforcement Officials in charge of the WACO massacre, if anything?

4) How have the methods of mind control changed since those days in the 80’s and 90’s?

5) What is being done to children now as compared to what was being done to children back in the early 90’s?

6) What are the best ways for humans to protect their children from the state and the Extraterrestrial Alliance?

7) Have you since met any of your attackers in the Light? Can you explain to us your interactions with them?

8) What would you say to those who claim that there is little or no hope for Humans to resist or overcome what is apparently in store for them?

L. Fletcher Prouty Channeled by Karl Mollison 20March2018

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L. Fletcher Prouty Channeled by Karl Mollison 20March2018

Adapted from prouty.org thanks to Len Osanic Col. Fletcher Prouty was the model for the ’Man X’ in Oliver Stone’s film ’JFK’.

Col. L. Fletcher Prouty Jan 24th 1917 – June 5th 2001

Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first “Focal Point” officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

At times he would be called to meet with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles at their home on highly classified business. He was assigned to attend MKULTRA meetings. In this capacity Col. Prouty would be at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial Complex at a time unequalled in American History. He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination, the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence of a “Secret Team”. He backs up his his work with seldom seen or mentioned official documents – some never before released.

Fletcher Prouty offers a rare glimpse of the “Power Elite” as described by Buckminster Fuller, or “The High Cabal” as Winston Churchill referred to them; and how they really operate. Those who have not been in a position to witness events such as these from the inside would not understand how invisible but ultimately effective they and their power structures are.

Here is his story from the other side of the veil.

His answers may surprise us all …

Pedro Lopez Channeled by Karl Mollison 13Mar2018

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Pedro Lopez Channeled by Karl Mollison 13Mar2018

Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Lopez_(serial_killer)

Pedro Alonso López was born 8 October 1948 and was a Colombian serial killer, who was sentenced for killing 110 girls, but who claims to have raped and killed more than 300 girls across Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and potentially other countries. According to the information obtained in this channeling, he is now deceased.

Aside from uncited local accounts, López’s crimes first received international attention from an interview conducted by Ron Laytner, a longtime freelance photojournalist who reported interviewing López in his Ambato prison cell in 1980.

According to Laytner’s story, López became known as the “Monster of the Andes” in 1980, when he led police to 53 graves in Ecuador, the victims all girls around nine to twelve years old.

In 1983, he was found guilty of the murder of 110 girls in Ecuador. He further confessed to an additional 240 murders in Peru and Colombia.

López was released from a psychiatric hospital in 1998 for good behaviour, after initially being found insane. As of 2018 his whereabouts are unknown.

An A&E Biography documentary reports that he was released from an Ecuadorian prison on 31 August 1994, then rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital. In 1998, he was declared sane and released on $50 bail, subject to certain conditions. He later absconded.

The same documentary says that Interpol released an advisory for his re-arrest by Colombian authorities over a fresh murder in 2002.

This was the Monster of the Andes. Here is his story from theLight.

Questions for Light Being Pedro Lopez 13March2018

1) When, where and how did you die?

2) What was the total number of murders you committed during your life as Pedro Lopez?

3) What was the nature and type of entity attachments, if any, that plagued you in our life as Pedro Lopez?

4) What were the Karmic circumstances that led to your life of rape and murder of young girls?

5) What are the ramifications of your healing and subsequent spirit rescue as it relates to your many victims.

6) In the instance of your arrests and subsequent and ultimate release how do the human ideas of justice relate to healing and restitution and how are these ideas resolved with respect to the perspective of the Divine Realm?

7) Having been the subject of the Lightworker Healing Protocol before your return to Light Being status what is your prognosis for your next incarnation?

Whitney Houston Channeled by Karl Mollison 06March2018

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Whitney Houston Channeled by Karl Mollison 06Mar2018

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston

Whitney Houston was only 48 and a half years old when she died from an apparent drug induced accident where she was found drowned in a bath tub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 11, 2012.

She was a classic shooting star with an unparalleled singing talent that put her far above most of the other female singers in her day. Her singing genesis was in the Church and her gospel voice launched her into the limelight when she was only 15 years old singing back up with Chaka Khan.

By the time she was 20 years old she had signed with Clive Davis and Arista.

Fame followed soon after and she is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 songs and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards and her album from 1985 became the best-selling debut album by a woman in history.

She stared in The Bodyguard (1992). She performed the lead single from the film’s original soundtrack, “I Will Always Love You”, which received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. With the soundtrack, which received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1994, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period.

She then met R&B singer Bobby Brown at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. After a three-year courtship, the two were married on July 18, 1992. On March 4, 1993, Houston gave birth to their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown (March 4, 1993 – July 26, 2015), the couple’s only child. They divorced in 2007.

Her phenomenal career went into a decline as drugs and an unsettled life crushed by fame and the music business took its toll on Whitney. She was exposed to all manner of insults; some brought on by her own behaviors, but it was painful for those millions who loved her to witness.

News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards.

At Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy party he spoke: “By now you have all learned of the unspeakably tragic news of our beloved Whitney’s passing. I don’t have to mask my emotion in front of a room full of so many dear friends. I am personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me for so many years. Whitney was so full of life. She was so looking forward to tonight even though she wasn’t scheduled to perform. Whitney was a beautiful person and a talent beyond compare. She graced this stage with her regal presence and gave so many memorable performances here over the years. Simply put, Whitney would have wanted the music to go on and her family asked that we carry on.”

Tony Bennett spoke of her death before performing at Davis’s party. He said, “First, it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston.” Bennett sang “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and said of Houston, “When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis and said, ’You finally found the greatest singer I’ve ever heard in my life.’”

Questions for Whitney Houston

1) Was your death due to an accident, an overdose, a ritual sacrifice or something else? Can you explain what happened and why?

2) What was it like for you in your transition, your time as an earthbound spirit and your Spirit Rescue?

3) Segments of the world’s population have been greatly oppressed. Blacks, in particular, continue to be heavily targeted. Is there a hidden agenda behind this?

4) Has and is disease used as a biological warfare to target certain segments of the world’s population in regards to race?

5) How was your faith in God changed in the course of your life as Whitney Houston?

6) Your daughter passed under very similar circumstances as your own. What was the cause of her death? Is she together with you in the Light?

7) Can you tell us the significance and purpose of the cosmology, possible ET connections, and knowledge of the Sirius B, from the Dogon people in Mali, West Africa?

8) Now that you are a light being, can you tell us about the generally unknown aspects of the race of black people here on Earth—as it relates to their origins, abductions by ETs, if any, the shifting consciousness that many feel is happening now, and the dark alien agenda in general?

Viewer Questions for Creator Channeled by Karl Mollison 01March2018

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Viewer Questions for Creator Channeled by Karl Mollison 01March2018

1) How are souls created from God, and does each soul group have a specific purpose/desire when created?

2) What is the purpose of human incarnation?

3) It was stated in a previous Viewer Questions with Creator that the way malevolent ETs get us to obey or to be mind controlled is through our subconscious. Are there any practical tools for humans to prevent this from happening and does it have to be done subconsciously such as in meditation, using hypnotherapy—being in a theta wave brain state or by the use of subliminal messaging?

4) How can we tell that we have connected with Creator in different states of consciousness and not an imposter? Is there a feeling that we get? Is there a sign that we must look out for? How can we really know?

5) Among the race of the Anunnaki, do they all have this dark agenda? Who are, and where do, Anu, Enlil and Enki fit into this?

6) I have read about several accounts where nuclear weapon tipped ICBMs have been disabled by UFOs. How does this fit in with either the non-intervention by positive ETs or negative ETs wanting us all dead? Is this a rare occasion of Creator intervening in the negative ET’s desire for the total annihilation of humanity?

7) Do we live in a holographic universe, or is it more a matrix reality created by artificial intelligence? What is the best way to describe the reality humans experience?

8) Do any positive ET races, such as the Pleiadians, have genetic and/or DNA experiments on Earth where they abduct and impregnate women? If there are no such positive ETs doing this, are these beings the Arcturians, masquerading as Pleiadians?

9) What changes will ascension or the great Shift bring to humans? What will this change entail for the day today existence in the fourth density, spiritually, mentally and physically?

Charles Manson Channeled by Karl Mollison 13Feb2018

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Charles Manson Channeled by Karl Mollison 13Feb2018

Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
& https://ifers.123.st/t10-celebrity-connections-laurel-canyon-mkultra-etc

Charles Manson (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and cult leader. In the late 1960s, he formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California. Manson’s followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969.

Manson was an unemployed ex-convict who had spent half of his life in correctional institutions for a variety of offenses. Before the murders, he was a singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, drummer and founding member of the Beach Boys. Manson believed in what he called “Helter Skelter”, a term he took from the Beatles’ song of the same name to describe an impending apocalyptic race war.

In 1971 he was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, all of which were carried out at his instruction by members of the group. Manson was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths.

Sharon Tate – the most famous of the Manson victims, and the daughter of Colonel Paul Tate, U.S. Army Intelligence. Tate was killed on August 9, 1969, along with Abigail Folger, Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, and Voytek Frykowski.

After Manson was charged with the crimes of which he was later convicted, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially, starting with Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (1970). Various musicians have covered some of his songs.

Manson was originally sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after California invalidated the state’s death penalty statute in 1972. He served out his life sentence at California State Prison in Corcoran.

Questions for Light Being Charles Manson 12Feb2018

1) Can you describe the conditions for you before and after the spirit rescue, a description of your light callers and your experience returning to the Light?

2) What was your involvement with the Sharon Tate murders?

3) Were you the subject of CIA mind control project?

4) How did drug use and the drug business play into your wider relations in Laurel Canyon?

5) Were there Satanic Rituals involved in your relationships with those who committed the Sharon Tate murders?

6) What is not known about your case that perhaps should be known among the general public looking into your arrest and conviction?

John F. Kennedy Channeled by Karl Mollison 23Jan2018

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Adapted from Marc J. Selverstone’s Life in Brief and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was born into a rich, politically connected Boston family of Irish-Catholics. He and his eight siblings enjoyed a privileged childhood of elite private schools, sailboats, servants, and summer homes. During his childhood and youth, “Jack” Kennedy suffered frequent serious illnesses.

Nevertheless, he strove to make his own way, writing a best-selling book while still in college at Harvard and volunteering for hazardous combat duty in the Pacific during World War II. Kennedy’s wartime service made him a hero. After a short stint as a journalist, Kennedy entered politics, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to 1961.

Kennedy was the youngest person elected U.S. President and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office.

Kennedy’s time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the
Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

He subsequently rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear
conflict.

Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the African-American Civil Rights Movement, but he was largely unsuccessful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies. Kennedy continues to rank highly in historians’ polls of U.S. presidents and with the general public.

His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup’s history of systematically measuring job approval.

Kennedy was the youngest person elected U.S. President and the first Roman Catholic to serve in that office. For many observers, his presidency came to represent the ascendance of youthful idealism in the aftermath of World War II.

The promise of this energetic and telegenic leader was not to be fulfilled, as he was assassinated near the end of his third year in office. For many Americans, the public murder of President Kennedy remains one of the most traumatic events in memory—countless Americans can remember exactly where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot.

His shocking death stood at the forefront of a period of political and social instability in the country and the world.

John Lennon Channeled by Karl Mollison 16Jan2018

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John Lennon Channeled by Karl Mollison 16Jan2018

Adapted from https://www.biographyonline.net/music/john-lennon.html

John Lennon was a British singer – songwriter and a key member of the Beatles – a musical and cultural phenomenon. After the Beatles, Lennon went on to have a distinguished solo career. Lennon was also an icon of the 1960s counter-culture revolution and was an anti-war activist.

“If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” – John Lennon

John Lennon was born, October 1940, during a German air raid in Oxford Street Maternity hospital, Liverpool. During his childhood, he saw little of his father Freddie, who went AWOL whilst serving in the navy. For several years, John was brought up by his mother’s sister Mimi.

In his early years John was a mischievous students, who would be quick to take the mickey out of teachers and other students. His school reports were often scathing. “Certainly on the road to failure … hopeless … rather a clown in class … wasting other pupils’ time.”

With Paul McCartney and George Harrison, the first concert of the Beatles was at the Cavern club in Liverpool on 21st March, 1961. After being rejected by many music labels, they eventually signed an agreement with Parlophone in 1962. George Martin who was responsible for signing the Beatles, later said he was not particularly impressed by their demo tapes, but liked their wit and humour – of which Lennon was usually at the forefront.

Despite his natural rebelliousness, Lennon agreed to the suggestion of manager Brian Epstein to dress smartly and have similar haircut. In the early years of the Beatles, the smart suited Beatles were part of their cultivated image.

Beatlemania became a global phenomenon. It marked a shift in musical attitudes, especially in the US. The Beatles success of 1964, was known as the start of the “British Invasion”.

During the 1960s, John Lennon began to frequently take LSD and by 1967 was a heavy user. This also co-incided with a period of uncertainty, and he considered leaving the Beatles. The death of Brian Esptein, their manage in 1967 also hit Lennon and the Beatles hard. However, this was also a period of musical inventiveness, with new styles of music helping to create some classic recordings, such as: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In 1967, John Lennon and the Beatles became more interested in meditation and Eastern religions. They spent several weeks in the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. In India they composed music for their albums The Beatles and Abbey Road. The visit also saw more Eastern musical influences begin to percolate into their music.

In 1969 the Beatles started to split up; Lennon was keen to branch out musically and develop his own solo career. After the break-up of the Beatles, Lennon pursued a very successful solo career. His first album was released in 1970 with John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970).

In the early 1970s, John Lennon also became a figurehead for those opposed to the Vietnam War. His song “Give Peace a Chance” became an anthem for the anti-war movement. Due to his anti-war stance the Nixon administration tried to have him deported, but after a long struggle he was able to gain a green card in 1976. His song “Imagine” has also become a tremendously influential song; it has been voted ‘the most popular song’ by the British public.

In 1975, he retreated from the music world, preferring to spend time looking after his new son, Sean.

John Lennon married Cynthia Powell in 1963, though the marriage was kept secret. They had one son, Julian. The marriage broke down in 1967. Lennon married Yoko Ono in March 1969.

In October of 1980, Lennon made a return to music recording. But, just two months later on 8 December 1980, John Lennon was shot dead in Dakota, New York. He was shot by David Chapman – an obsessed fan.

He later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was imprisoned for life.

By 2012, John Lennon has sold 14 million solo albums, whilst the Beatles have become the best-selling group of all time – with an estimated 600 million recording sales worldwide.

Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “Biography of John Lennon”, Oxford,

www.biographyonline.net, 28th May. 2007. Updated 31st January, 2017.