John Lennon In 2002, the airport in Lennon's home town was renamed the Liverpool John Lennon Airport. On what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday in 2010, the John Lennon Peace Monument was unveiled in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, by Cynthia and Julian Lennon. The sculpture, entitled "Peace & Harmony", exhibits peace symbols and carries the inscription "Peace on Earth for the Conservation of Life · In Honour of John Lennon 1940–1980". In December 2013, the International Astronomical Union named one of the craters on Mercury after Lennon. The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is regarded as one of the most influential and successful of
The Lives of John Lennon "the stupidity of the ["Newsweek"] magazine employees who were assigned the task of smearing me and my book", and concluded by saying that Sante was "a young man of no reputation in the field of popular culture." Sante good-naturedly replied that Goldman's tirade proved that the book was a gigantic, humorous "put-on". Author Phillip Norman, whose own biography of Lennon ("John Lennon: The Life") was published 20 years after "The Lives of John Lennon", described Goldman's book as "malevolent" and "risibly ignorant". On their 1988 album "Rattle and Hum", U2 attacked Goldman's allegations about Lennon in the song "God Part