New Delhi:
Imagine, John Lennon on Google. No, it is not the 42,800,000 search results rendered in 0.09 seconds that one is talking about.
Google is celebrating the Beatle on his 70th birth anniversary on Saturday with a video doodle that plays to his iconic song, Imagine. Just click on play and the doodle harking back to flower power and love and peace and all things Beatles comes alive.
Google often changes its logo to a doodle that commemorates a particular event. Very recently it celebrated its own 25th birthday. But the doodle that day was nothing as fancy as that celebrating the Beatle.
John, born on October 9, 1940, is trending all over today. Right now, news about the FBI seizing a set of John Lennon's fingerprints from a Manhattan memorabilia shop. The fingerprints are on a card made at a police station on May 8, 1976. It bears the name John Winston Ono Lennon from the time when Lennon was applying for citizenship to the US. (Read it here:
FBI seizes Lennon's fingerprints from auction)
It was in the US, in New York City, that Lennon was shot dead on December 8, 1980, by Mark David Chapman at the entrance to the building where he lived.
Almost 30 years later Lennon's widow Yoko Ono imagines what life would have been with John at 70, had he been alive.
For those who would like to get their John Lennon quotient right up there, a whole lot of quotes from the legend to be found on this link
http://johnlennonquotes.net. I cannot vouch for the veracity of the content though. There is also
another unofficial fan site built by the same fan.
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