John Lennon Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era of Vietnam's senseless carnage as well, Lennon came to embrace and embody pacifism via such classics of the Beatles era as "All You Need Is Love" and "Strawberry Fields Forever." Yet he also had a countervailing dark side that …showed first 75 words of 655 total…

…showed last 75 words of 655 total…was the center of all things peaceful and harmonious man. He made people love....he made me love! He and the Beatles were really more popular than Jesus Christ. Not only did Johns music groov....his poetry, his beliefs, his hair......they were all in a line with the celestial moon man. It was a far out time to be alive. I can't believe someone shot that man. Just give peace a chance....ya know"?