Task 1. Read the text and put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple Active Voice or Past Simple Passive Voice. John Lennon was born on the 9th of October. He (be) an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fane as one of the founding members of the Beatles. With Paul McCartney he (form) one of the most successful songwriting partnership of the 20 ^ (th) century. John Lennon (be) and raised in Liverpool and he became involved as a teenager in the Skiffle Craze: his first band. The group "The Beatles" (create) in 1960. Towards the end of the decade Lennon embarked on a solo career and then in 1975 disengaged himself from the music business to devote time to his family, but (come) back in 1980 with a new album. He (murder) three weeks after its release.