Did John Lennon secretly destroy his own father’s attempts at a music career? After that, Lennon didn’t speak to his father for 20 years. John Lennon in 1965. (Credits: Far Out / Bent Rej)In 1965, Fred Lennon randomly tried to launch a music career with the track, ‘That’s My Life (My Love and My Home)’. “At Christmas 1965, we heard that Alf had made a record, under the trendier name of Fred Lennon,” John’s wife Cynthia Lennon recalled.