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Alfred Lennon. Alfred Lennon (14 December 1912 - 1 April 1976) was the father of English musician John Lennon. He spent many years in an orphanage-with his sister, Edith-after his father died. He was known as being very witty and musical throughout his life-he sang and played the banjo-but not as being very dependable. Although always known informally as Alf by his family, he later released a ...
Jan 24, 2024 · Julia Stanley had first met Alf Lennon in 1928. Although her family disapproved of the sharp-talking sailor, they courted throughout the 1930s and finally married on 3 December 1938. Alf Lennon later said that Julia had dared him to marry her one night at the pub. The challenge was accepted, and the wedding took place...
Lennon was born in war-time England, on 9 October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman of Irish descent, who was away at the time of his son's birth. His parents named him John Winston Lennon after his paternal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His father was often away from home but sent ...
Tony Cartwright, co-author of the song, began writing it with inspiration from Freddie Lennon's stories. [citation needed] It was recorded by a 30 piece orchestra which included the future members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding.
When The Beatles toured Ireland in 1963, John Lennon declared “We’re all Irish!” Alfred Lennon was a merchant seaman of Irish descent, was away at the time his wife Julia gave birth to John on October 9, 1940. “I'm a quarter Irish or half Irish or something, and long, long before the trouble started, I told Yoko that's where we're going to retire, and I took her to Ireland. We went ...
John Lennon. Actor: A Hard Day's Night. John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul ...
The "A" side of Alf Lennon's 1965 single.https://www.facebook.com/axixicmusic/?fref=tshttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ballad/id1120899573https://itunes.app...
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