John Lennon

John Lennon was a Liverpudlian musician known for being in the Beatles. He later started another band with his wife Yoko Ono. His work was one of the most widely known and studied music of the late industrial era and early information age.

Profile
The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble went to see Lennon perform with the Beatles at the Cavern Club in 1963. Donna got him to sign a future album on compact disc. (DWM: The Time of My Life)

The First Doctor and his companions watched John Lennon and the other Beatles perform their song "Ticket to Ride" on the Time-Space Visualiser. Vicki commented that a museum dedicated to the Beatles existed in 25th century Liverpool. (DW: The Chase)

In 1969, the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace prevented Lennon and the other Beatles from being murdered during their Let it Be rooftop concert at the Apple Records building in London. However, Lennon was later shot and killed by the possessed assassin Mark David Chapman in New York City on 8 December 1980. (NA: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

Shortly after he died, Lennon told the Doctor that "talent borrows, genius steals." (PDA: Eye of Heaven)

For some time, Lennon was trapped in Psychespace after dreaming about it too much. He was only freed with the help of the Eleventh Doctor's companion Amy Pond. (DWM: Forever Dreaming)

Minor references
Susan Foreman liked John Lennon. (TN: Time and Relative)

The DJ of Tranquil Repose had a poster of John Lennon in his broadcasting studio. (DW: Revelation of the Daleks)

Behind the scenes

 * John Lennon, in a manner of speaking, played himself on Doctor Who in the form of archival footage of a Beatles concert shown in The Chase.

Originally, The Chase was going to feature The Beatles wearing old age makeup and playing themselves as old men in the late 20th Century. However, the idea was quickly denied by the band's manager, Brian Epstein. Had the idea come to fruition, it, sadly, would have become anachronistic given Lennon's murder in 1980.
 * An early 1960s photo shows John Lennon posing next to a Dalek.
 * Ninth Doctor actor Christopher Eccleston played Lennon in the television film Lennon Naked alongside Naoko Mori, who had played Toshiko Sato on Doctor Who and Torchwood.
 * The novel PDA: The Devil Goblins from Neptune suggests that in the Whoniverse, the Beatles continued as a group after 1970, with Paul McCartney leaving the group and two new members replacing him.