There was a time when rock ‘n roll did not exist. Although John Lennon wasn’t present at its birth and had nothing to do with cutting the umbilical cord, he definitely deserves credit for raising it into the irresponsible child it has become today. If the former Beatle and proponent of world peace hadn’t been shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman, he might have been around to help the genre through its more troubled and awkward phases (aka Matchbox Twenty). To celebrate what would have been Lennon’s 70th birthday tomorrow, we present you with 70 things you didn’t know about the man who once was the Walrus.

1. Lennon often said he’d rather have been a member of Monty Python than the Beatles.

2. For a time, Lennon and Yoko Ono had a psychic on staff to help advise them with business deals. The psychic earned a stipend on par with their lawyers and accountants.

3. Lennon’s favorite game to play on tour was Monopoly.

4. Lennon first experienced LSD when his dentist, John Riley, furtively slipped some into his coffee at a dinner party.

5. As a teenager, Lennon’s aunt and parental guardian, Mimi Smith, would often tell him, “The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never make a living at it.”

6. Lennon wanted Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, but was outvoted.

7. Lennon and Yoko made their debut art performance together at the Royal Albert Hall in an opaque white sack, contorting their bodies in silence on stage.

8. Lennon’s first band, The Quarrymen, would often hold their practices in the bathroom, with Lennon standing shoeless in the bathtub.

9. On the track “How Do You Sleep?” from Lennon’s solo album Imagine, the caustic lines “The sound you make is muzak to my ears” and “The only thing you done was ‘Yesterday’” were both directed at former band member, Paul McCartney.

10. Lennon once demanded that Yoko write him a list of everyone she’d ever slept with.