John Lennon was a notorious rebel during his short time at Liverpool College of Art, a fellow student and friend commented: ....In his first six months at college, his paintings were very wild and aggressive ...There were always musicians in John's early drawings, a band on a bandstand, dim lights, something sleazy... Arthur Ballard, one of Lennon's tutors at Art College recalled: ...that his work was remarkable in that it was virtually non-existent: "When it came time for the students' work to be displayed around the walls at the end of term, John Lennon was the only student I have ever known to have other members of the class cover up for him by displaying their work as his". However, Ballard's opinion of Lennon's ability was modified when he came across John's cartoons for the first time. "One day I found this notebook, full of caricatures...the wittiest things I'd ever seen"... -- which convinced him that Lennon's talent was as a purveyor of surreal humour rather than in "serious" art...