McCartney Times

John Winston Lennon, named in honour of a paternal grandfather and a Prime Minister, would have reached his landmark 75th birthday on October 9 this year.As history shows, he only lived to 40, gunned down by Mark Chapman outside his New York apartment complex in 1980.But those four decades left their lasting imprint on the world of music and an archive of photographs which illustrate just how influential he was.

Source: John Lennon’s 75th birthday: a look back at his life in photos – Liverpool Echo