8.John Lennon – $12 Million
The English musician John Lennon is the number 8 on the list of dead celebrities who are still making money.
Founder member of the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music, Lennon was born in 1940 and died 40 years later.
His very-discussed marriage to Yoko Ono started in 1969 and ended in 1980, when Lennon was murdered.
In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time.
Lennon was included into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
John Lennon has continued sales of Beatles albums and other musical projects, plus a Beatles-themed Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show, that add up to a $12 million paycheck.
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