John Brown Lennon 400 local unions. Lennon was elected treasurer of the American Federation of Labor in 1890. He soon became a close associate, and friend, to AFL president Samuel Gompers. In 1894, when Gompers lost the AFL presidency for a year to socialist labor leader John McBride, he worked out of Lennon's New York City office. Both Lennon and Gompers held the conservative AFL labor philosophy of "pure and simple unionism" against socialist and anarchist viewpoints that put forward a larger political project of working-class emancipation through the overthrow of capitalism. In 1894, the Journeyman Tailors Union under Lennon's leadership faced a
Imagine: John Lennon (soundtrack) at No. 64. The project arrived at a timely juncture and was successful in thwarting the then-released "The Lives of John Lennon" by Albert Goldman, a controversial and reputation-tarnishing book which many dismissed as fiction, including Ono and Lennon's close friends, as well as the surviving Beatles. All songs by John Lennon, except where noted. Tracks 2-10 produced by George Martin. Track 11 produced by Lennon and Yoko Ono. Tracks 12-14, 17 & 21 produced by Lennon, Ono and Phil Spector. Track 15 produced by Ono. Track 16 produced by Lennon. Tracks 18-20 produced by Lennon, Ono and Jack Douglas.