McCartney Times

Spring 1956
John, 15, catches a radio broadcast of Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel.” “When I heard it,” he says later, “it was the end for me.” Elvis’s music would be a huge influence, but when The Beatles got to meet The King years later, John was unimpressed. According to Tony Barrow, Beatles press officer, John compared it to “meeting Engelbert Humperdinck.”

Twenty five years after his death, Newsweek took a look at the defining moments in John Lennon’s life.

Source: Eleven Influential Moments in John Lennon’s Life