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Hustad is a village and former municipality on the Romsdal peninsula in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village of Hustad was the administrative centre of the municipality of Hustad. The village is located in the present-day municipality of Fræna. The village of Hustad is located in the Nerland urban area which covers about 0.35 square kilometres (86 acres) and has a population (2009) of 242.
Hustad is a thriving village with food stores, a bank, parking facilities, and several other businesses. Hustad has the Stemshest mountains to the east and there are five lakes nearby that are well-stocked with trout. There are also numerous hiking paths such as the Atlanterhavsveien just 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) away. The Hustadvika coastal area is located just offshore of Hustad.
The municipality of Hustad was established on 1 July 1918 when the old municipality of Bud was divided into Bud (eastern part) and Hustad (western part). The initial population of Hustad municipality was 2,062. On 1 January 1964, Hustad and Bud were incorporated into the municipality of Fræna to the south, forming a new, larger municipality of Fræna. Prior to the merger, Hustad had a population of 2,196.
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Together with Paul McCartney, he formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon became involved as a teenager in the skiffle craze; his first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group disintegrated towards the end of the decade, Lennon embarked on a solo career that produced the critically acclaimed albums John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to devote time to raising his infant son Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He was murdered three weeks after its release.