Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. One day, I'm going to be famous,' John Lennon said when he was young - and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went solo, he wrote some of the most important songs of all time. He was a family man and a peace protestor - he wanted to change the world. But one autumn day, four gun shots rang out across New York, and took away that dream for ever...
"I get by with a little help from my friends" - John Lennon
It’s not just a song. We all need a little help from our friends. If not now, tomorrow. Or the day after. Or the year after. Some people never realize it until it’s too late.
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans" - John Lennon
Imagine is a well-known song written and performed by the great artist John Lennon. It was released in 1971, and since then has always been a symbol of peace and philanthropy for everyone who seeks a better world. In 1999, it received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
In adiition to the clip and its subtitle, you will find a PDF file containing the helpful collocations and phrases in this song.
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.
This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore—his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney;
