I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

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 revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit in his music writing drawings on film and in interviews.