The disruptive behaviour of the composer, nicknamed the "class clown", is detailed in these original 1955 documents that were saved from a mass book burning in 1970 by a teacher at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool where the singer studied.
Famous worldwide for such all-time hits as "Imagine", Lennon was given detention as often as three times a day for "being a nuisance" in the classroom, "shoving" his schoolmates and having "just no interest (in class) whatsoever", the school reports say.
