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John Winston Lennon was a Liverpudlian musician and songwriter known for his tenure with the Beatles. He later started another band with his second wife Yoko Ono. His work was one of the most widely known and studied music of the late industrial era and early information age.[source needed]
Biography
The Sixth Doctor jammed with John Lennon, along with the rest of the Beatles in Hamburg before they were big. (PROSE: Gone Too Soon [+]Loading...["Gone Too Soon (short story)"])
Lennon first performed as a member of The Beatles at the Cavern Club in 1961. The Eleventh Doctor told Alice Obiefune that most of the audience were time travellers - including the Lennon that performed. (COMIC: What He Wants... [+]Loading...["What He Wants... (comic story)"])
In 1963, the Tenth Doctor took Martha Jones to see a performance of Lennon playing with the Beatles. (COMIC: Signs of Life [+]Loading...["Signs of Life (comic story)"])
When he was recording an album at Abbey Road, he encountered the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday. Due to Maestro's manipulations of music, he didn't feel that into music and just wanted to go back to Liverpool and settle down. He later worked with Paul McCartney to complete the lost chord and banish Maestro. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Later that year, Susan Foreman and her friend Cedric listened to several Beatles songs that Lennon wrote on her transistor radio. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth [+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"])
In early 1964, one of the songs that Lennon wrote for the Beatles', "I Want to Hold Your Hand", was knocked off the top of the British charts by the Dave Clark Five song "Glad All Over" which peaked at No. 6 in the United States. (AUDIO: Threshold [+]Loading...["Threshold (audio story)"])
By 13 July 1964, Lennon and the Beatles had sold out the first leg of their United Kingdom tour. (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? [+]Loading...["Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)"])
Lennon and the other Beatles performed their song "Ticket to Ride" on the 13 May 1965 instalment of Top of the Pops. The First Doctor and his companions Vicki Pallister, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright watched it via the Time-Space Visualiser. (TV: "The Executioners" [+]Part of The Chase, Loading...{"namedep":"The Executioners (1)","1":"The Chase (TV story)"}) According to one account which claimed that the Visualiser was a hoax, the people seen on the Visualiser were not the genuine historical figures but human slaves of the Pursuer-Daleks who were made to re-enact the event as a deception for the Doctor and his companions. (PROSE: Dalek Survival Guide [+]Loading...["Dalek Survival Guide (novel)"])
On 12 November 1969, newborn Paul Magrs dreamt that John and Yoko attended a party hosted by Dr Oho. (PROSE: In the Sixties [+]Loading...["In the Sixties (short story)"])
In 1969, the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace prevented Lennon and the other Beatles from being murdered during their Let it Be rooftop concert at the Apple Records building in London. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"]) At some point during the concert, time distortion from the Rift Manipulator transported Lennon and the Beatles to the roof of the same building in the 2000s.[nb 1] They were sent back after Torchwood opened up the Cardiff Rift. (TV: End of Days [+]Loading...["End of Days (TV story)"])
For some time, Lennon was trapped in Psychspace after dreaming about it too much. He was only freed with the help of the Eleventh Doctor's companion Amy Pond. (COMIC: Forever Dreaming [+]Loading...["Forever Dreaming (comic story)"])
Mark David Chapman, manipulated by Huitzilin, shot Lennon outside his hotel on 8 December 1980. This act silenced Lennon's life. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Loading...["The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)"])
Shortly after he died, Lennon told the Doctor that "talent borrows, genius steals." (PROSE: Eye of Heaven [+]Loading...["Eye of Heaven (novel)"])
In the City of the Saved, Lennon continued having a close relationship with Yoko Ono. Krisztina-Judit Németh guessed that they may have been at a masked ball held by Allisheer St Marx. (PROSE: Unification Theory [+]Loading...["Unification Theory (short story)"])
Undated events
The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble went to see Lennon perform with the Beatles at the Cavern Club. Donna got him to sign the future album 1 on CD for Donna's mum. (COMIC: The Time of My Life [+]Loading...["The Time of My Life (comic story)"])
Minor references
Susan Foreman liked John Lennon, and wrote in her diary that she found him attractive. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])
The DJ of Tranquil Repose had a poster of John Lennon in his broadcasting studio. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor cited John Lennon as a musician who had become a legend by dying in tragic circumstances, and asked the members of Pakafroon Wabster if they wanted the same thing. (COMIC: Interstellar Overdrive [+]Loading...["Interstellar Overdrive (comic story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond travelled to London, 1963 because Amy had wanted to see John Lennon play. (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"])
Helena believed that Lennon was cute. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X [+]Loading...["In Search of Doctor X (short story)"])
Michael quoted the John Lennon song "Beautiful Boy" to Peri Brown. (AUDIO: Paradise 5 [+]Loading...["Paradise 5 (audio story)"])
Other realities
In an alternate timeline created by Lenny Kruger in which the Common Men rose to prominence in place of the Beatles, Lennon was part of a group called the Famous Five, which was a joke name because there were only four of them: him, two Petes and Chas. (AUDIO: 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men [+]Loading...["1963: Fanfare for the Common Men (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes
- John Lennon, in a manner of speaking, played himself on Doctor Who in the form of archival footage of a Beatles TV appearance shown in The Chase.
- In 1965, John Lennon attended a film festival, where he was at one point famously photographed with a Dalek looming behind him.
- John Lennon is one of three historical figures who are available as playable characters in the online game TARDIS Tennis.
- In The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], Lennon is depicted wearing his iconic round glasses in 1963. However, in the real world, Lennon did not start wearing these style of glasses until 1966. He first wore them for the filming of How I Won the War, in which Lennon played a British World War Two soldier. The style of glasses became a mainstay for him which he wore for the rest of his life.
- He was played by Stephen MacKenna in Birth of the Beatles and Christopher Eccleston in Lennon Naked. He was also played by Mark McGann - Paul's brother - in John and Yoko: A Love Story.