If John Legend hadn't been brutally assassinated the Beetle singer would be celebrating his 80th birthday today.John was born on October 9, 1940, with bombs falling around the hospital in the midst of World War II as the life-long anti-war campaigner was brought into this cruel world.His mother, Cynthia, and father Alfred, who was a merchant marine, decided to give him the middle name Winston in honour of the UK's Prime Minister of the time, Winston Churchill.
He grew to be one of the most famous singers of all time as part of the band, The Beatles, with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.But, sadly, John's life was filled with tragedies that even all the fame and money in the world couldn't fix.It would be impossible to brush.
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