{"artist":{"artist_type":"Person","name":"John Lennon","image":{"src":"http:\/\/static.bbci.co.uk\/music\/images\/artists\/234x132\/4d5447d7-c61c-4120-ba1b-d7f471d385b9.jpg"},"gid":"4d5447d7-c61c-4120-ba1b-d7f471d385b9","disambiguation":"","begin_date":"1940-10-09","end_date":"1980-12-08","wikipedia_article":{"content":"John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9\u00a0October 1940 \u2013 8\u00a0December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.\n\nBorn and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon\/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as \"Give Peace a Chance\" and \"Imagine\". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.","url":"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lennon","title":"John Lennon"},"reviews":[{"short_synopsis":"The former Beatle's most famous singles collected in one place, again.","url_key":"c6vh","review_date":"2010-11-25","release_date":"2010-10-04","reviewer":"Mike Diver","release":{"gid":"8acace08-3f01-4d1c-9d14-17dcecec41d2","title":"Power to the People","artwork":{"small":"http:\/\/static.bbci.co.uk\/music\/images\/reviews\/48x48\/c6vh.jpg","large":"http:\/\/static.bbci.co.uk\/music\/images\/reviews\/176x176\/c6vh.jpg"}}},{"short_synopsis":"Why not invest in copies of 'Plastic Ono Band', and 'Imagine' instead? 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