Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Pop music project artist bio fact sheet

John Lennon (The Beatles)

Intro:

1. When did their career start?
He was in a school and these people from his school asked him to be in a band, he said yes and joined in.

2. What are they known for?
His/Their music, love peace and harmony. Also his intellegence and his pasion for art.

3. Were they in other bands before?
John Lennon was in The Quarry Men.

4. What are their most popular songs? Albums?
Mother, Julia and the song that I chose Imagine. Imagine had become an international peace song.

Body:

5. Where are they from? How did they meet?
They are all from Liverpool, England. First Paul met John at Johns performance with his old band. Then they formed a band and thye all just met each other.

6. What style of music do they play?
(Pop) They also played rock and what seemed to be the blues.

7. What are most of their lyrics about?
Peace, love and harmony in the world and about their lives.

8. Did their music change over time? How?
Not really I think it stayed the same. The music was quiet, peaceful and relaxing. Though they still made some rock and it was cool.

9. If it is a band, who are the members? What instruments do they play?
The members in the band are John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey). Some played bass like Ringo and George played guitarist.

10. What was the inspiration for their music?
They talked about peace and that was their inspiration from a school that taught John about what music was. He got interested and joined a band.

11. Were they influenced by other artists?
John Lennon associated and elaborated with what the Plastic Ono band did.

12. Was their anything unique or unusual about the artist?
John Lennons dad was absent his whole life and his mom never with him. Johns sister Mimi and her husband decided to take care of John since the mom and dad were never around. Sadly Mimi and her husbend died in a car accident when John was 15 years old.

Conclusion:

13. Did they have and impact on society beyond music?
Yes, John loved nature the world and art.

14. How did the band break up or are they still around?
The band broke up because of pressure with the fns and fussterazation and then Paul finally made an announcement that the band split up.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is really good and I like how you broke it up into questions

Connors 8th grade humanites blog said...

Gj but try and add some to a couple.

B00! said...

Nice job but you should try to not break it up into questions it's a bio not a question and answer thing!

Mr. Talner said...

Ruth is right. I see you took her advice below.