The Nixon administration tried to deport John Lennon.
 
 
 
 

You don’t have to imagine Richard Nixon trying to deport John Lennon, because it actually happened, in 1972. The 37th President of the United States was no fan of the former Beatle, whose ballad “Give Peace a Chance” became a rallying cry among anti-Vietnam War activists who believed the best way to end the conflict was to make Nixon a one-term commander in chief. This was highly irksome during Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign, and the famously vindictive leader responded by sending the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) after Lennon, under the pretense that he had been allowed into America improperly since he’d been charged with a marijuana-related misdemeanor in England in 1968.
 

John Lennon hated his singing voice.
 

Despite being one of the most influential and beloved musicians in history, John Lennon hated the sound of his own voice. In addition to telling biographer Ray Coleman, “I can’t say I ever liked hearing myself,” Lennon requested that Beatles producer George Martin “do something” to his voice to make it sound different, even going so far as to ask him, “Can’t you smother it with tomato ketchup or something?” According to Martin, Lennon “had an inborn dislike of his own voice which I could never understand, as it was one of the best voices I’ve heard.” Millions upon millions of fans agree.