09 October,2012 08:18 AM IST | | Special Features
CS brings you some trivia on the English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of The Beatles:
>> His mother bought him his first guitar in 1956, an inexpensive Gallotone Champion acoustic for which she âlent' her son five pounds and ten shillings
>> The band O.A.R. (of a revolution) wrote âDakota' off of their album âStories of a Stranger' in his memory
>> After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon
>> His âIn my Life' was played at the funeral of Kurt Cobain
>> In 2001 the Liverpool Airport was renamed the John Lennon Airport after him
>> He was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994u00a0
