What inspried john Lennon to start singing?

Lennon sang in the school choir when a boy, but it was the arrival of rock and roll music in the 1950s that really gave him an interest in music. Also, in the 1950s Lonnie Donegan had a lot of success with skiffle - upbeat music played on, largely, home made instruments. It made people realise that playing music did not necessarily need expensive instruments. Lennon formed a skiffle band - he played guitar, although tuned like a banjo as his mother tuned it for him and showed him how to play banjo chords (the only ones she knew).