He was born at 6:30 p.m.(six plus three making nine) on 9 October 1940.Sean was born on 9 October 1975.Brian Epstein first saw John and the Beatles at Liverpool's Cavern club on 9 November 1961, and he secured their record contract with E.M.I in London on 9 May 1962.The debut record,'Love Me Do',was on Parlophone R4949.
John met Yoko Ono on 9 November 1966.John and Yoko's apartment was located on West 72nd Street,New York City(seven plus two making nine),and their man Dakota apartment number was also,at first,72.The bus he had travelled on as a student each morning from his home to Liverpool Art College had been 72.
The registration number of the car that knocked down and killed his mother was LFK 630(nine).It was driven by Police Constable 126(nine).
'Penny Lane'(nine letters) is in postal district 18(nine) in Liverpool(nine).Sgt.Pepper has nine letters,as do some key people in John's life: Mimi Smith;Jim Gretty who sold John his first real guitar at Frank Hessy's shop;Mr.Stevenson,his art college principal;Bob Wooler at the Cavern;the Maharishi;and Bill Harry of Mersey Beat newspaper.
Early Liverpool venues for the Beatles included Jacaranda(nine),Blue Angel(nine),and Cassanova(nine).
Julian Lennon was born at Sefton General Hospital,126(nine) Smithdown Road,Liverpool.Both John's mother and stepfather were pronounced dead there.
At school he sat nine General Certificate of Education exams,and failed them all.
John's first group was called the Quarry Men(nine letters).
When John first met Cynthia she was living at 18(nine) Trinity Road,Hoylake.
The cover of John's album Walls and Bridges features a painting he did at age eleven.This shows a football player with a large nine on his shirt.
John's songs included 'Revolution #9','#9 Dream',and 'One After 909',which he had written at his mother's home at nine Newcastle Road,Wavertree,Liverpool.WHen he moved his Aunt Mimi from Liverpool to Sandbanks in Dorset,her new address was 126 Panorama Road,the combination of figures striking John as his lucky number.
He even joked with me that one of his most important songs had nine key words: 'All we are saying is Give Peace a Chance.'
When John went gambling in Las Vegas,the number he repeatedly chose on the roulette wheel was nine...and he usually lost with it.
In Paris in 1964 during the Beatles' tour he received a death threat letter which made him nervous:'I am going to shoot you at nine tonight.' John sold his Tittenhurst Park to Ringo on 9 September 1973.He believed the sign of a marriage 'written in the stars' was the names of John Ono Lennon and Yoko Ono Lennon together featured the letter 'o' nine times.When John was killed, at 10:50p.m. in New York on 8 December 1980,the five hour time difference meant that it was 9 December in Britain.His body was taken to Roosevelt Hospital.It was situated on Ninth Avenue,Manhatten.John was pronounced dead at 11:07 p.m.(nine)
