A true pop culture icon, John Lennon gave us some of the most enduring and memorable music of the twentieth century as part of The Beatles, and as a solo artist. His enormous popularity also gave him an unprecedented platform to promote his political views, which caused him serious problems when he moved to New York in the early 1970s. In his hometown of Liverpool, we’ll visit the locations that lead to the founding of The Beatles – the childhood home where he lived with his Aunt Mimi and first started writing music, the bus stop on Menlove Avenue where his mother was tragically killed when John was a teenager, and the church hall where he famously met Paul McCartney for the first time in 1957. And in New York City, we’ll trace John’s political activism at his apartment in Greenwich Village where he was hounded by the FBI, the New York City Bar Association where he fought deportation, and The Dakota Building, where he tragically lost his life in 1980.
