John Lennon John Winston Lennon was a Liverpudlian musician and songwriter known for his tenure with the Beatles . He later started another band with his second wife Yoko Ono . His work was one of the most widely known and studied music of the late industrial era and early information age . Biography . The Sixth Doctor jammed with the Beatles in Hamburg before they were big . ( PROSE : " Gone Too Soon " ) The Beatles first performed at the Cavern Club in 1961 . The Eleventh Doctor told Alice Obiefune that most of the audience were time travellers - including the Lennon that performed . ( COMIC : " What He Wants . . . " ) In 1963 , the Tenth Doctor took Martha Jones to see a performance by the Beatles . ( COMIC : " Signs of Life " ) Later that year , Susan Foreman and her friend Cedric listened to several Beatles songs on her transistor radio . ( AUDIO : " Hunters of Earth " ) In early 1964 , the Beatles ' song " I Want to Hold Your Hand " was knocked off the top of the British charts by the Dave Clark Five song " Glad All Over , " which peaked at No . 6 in the United States . ( AUDIO : " Threshold " ) By 13 July 1964 , the Beatles had sold out the first leg of their United Kingdom tour . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) John Lennon and the other Beatles performed their song " Ticket to Ride " on the 13 May 1965 instalment of " Top of the Pops " , introduced by Jimmy Savile . The First Doctor and his companion s Vicki Pallister , Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright watched it via the Time - Space Visualiser . ( TV : " The Chase " ) In 1969 , the Seventh Doctor ' s companion Ace prevented Lennon and the other Beatles from being murdered during their " Let it Be " rooftop concert at the Apple Records building in London . However , Lennon was later shot and killed by the possessed assassin Mark David Chapman in New York City on 8 December 1980 . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) At some point during the concert , time distortion from the Rift Manipulator transported the Beatles to the roof of the same building in early 2008 . They were sent back after Torchwood opened up the Cardiff Rift . ( TV : " End of Days " ) For some time , Lennon was trapped in Psychspace after dreaming about it too much . He was only freed with the help of the Eleventh Doctor ' s companion Amy Pond . ( COMIC : " Forever Dreaming " ) In 1970 , Paul McCartney left the Beatles . They acquired two new members , Billy and Klaus . ( PROSE : " The Devil Goblins from Neptune " ) Mark David Chapman , manipulated by Huitzilin , shot Lennon outside his hotel on 8 December 1980 . This act silenced Lennon ' s life . ( PROSE : " The Left - Handed Hummingbird " ) Shortly after he died , Lennon told the Doctor that " talent borrows , genius steals . " ( PROSE : " Eye of Heaven " ) In the City of the Saved , Lennon continued having a close relationship with Yoko Ono . Krisztina - Judit Németh guessed that they may have been at a masked ball held by Allisheer St Marx . ( PROSE : " Unification Theory " ) Undated events . The Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble went to see Lennon perform with the Beatles at the Cavern Club . Donna got him to sign the future album " 1 " on CD for Donna ' s mum . ( COMIC : " The Time of My Life " ) Minor references . Susan Foreman liked John Lennon . ( PROSE : " Time and Relative " ) The DJ of Tranquil Repose had a poster of John Lennon in his broadcasting studio . ( TV : " Revelation of the Daleks " ) The Tenth Doctor cited John Lennon as a musician who had become a legend by dying in tragic circumstances , and asked the members of Pakafroon Wabster if they wanted the same thing . ( COMIC : " Interstellar Overdrive " ) The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond travelled to 1963 to meet the Beatles , but were diverted into an alternate timeline created by the Dalek s . Amy had wanted to see John Lennon , the Doctor suggesting Ringo . ( GAME : " City of the Daleks " ) Helena believed that Lennon was cute . ( PROSE : " In Search of Doctor X " ) Alternate timeline . In an alternate timeline created by Lenny Kruger in which the Common Men rose to prominence in place of the Beatles , Lennon was part of a group called the Famous Five , which was a joke name because there were only four of them : him , two Petes and Chaz . ( AUDIO : " " )