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Google's imaginative John Lennon doodle


New Delhi: Had Mark David Chapman not fired that fatal shot on December 8, 1980 and John Lennon was alive today, he would have been pleased to see the Google doodle marking his 70th birth anniversary.
While John Lennon's birthday is on 9 October, Google started celebrating the singer-songwriter's birthday a day in advance with an innovative doodle. On clicking on the logo a 32 second of Imagine, considered to be Lennon's most popular song, starts to play.
For a dozen years, Google has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.
John Lennon Google doodle
The Google doodle went interactive in May to celebrate the 30th birthday of the popular Pac-Man game.
Who was John Lennon?
On Saturday, fans and family will celebrate what would have been singer/songwriter John Lennon's 70th birthday.
Here are five facts on Lennon:
- Lennon, along with Paul McCartney, is considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century. He was voted the greatest rock 'n' roll icon of all time in a poll conducted by Q music magazine in 2004.
- Born in Liverpool, England, on Oct. 9, 1940, Lennon formed his first band, The Quarrymen, in 1957, which went on to become The Beatles the next year with the addition of McCartney and George Harrison. The Beatles, which disbanded in 1970, are estimated to have sold more than a billion records worldwide.
- Imagine, probably Lennon's most popular solo album, was released in 1971. Its title track, a Utopian song by the same name, has been adopted by peace activists around the world as an unofficial anthem. is also the official song of the human rights organisation Amnesty International.
- Lennon was married twice and had a son with each wife. Lennon and Yoko Ono, his second wife, held "bed-ins" during their honeymoon in 1969, allowing the world press into their hotel room as a show of protest against the Vietnam War.
- Lennon was gunned down by a crazed fan outside his New York apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. The assassin, Mark Chapman, said 10 years later that by killing the ex-Beatle he had murdered an age of innocence.

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