Cynthia Lennon Quotes

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Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her – she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John’s success. But that wasn’t the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John’s self-confidence and left him angry and hurt.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Those weeks in Hamburg were among the happiest times John and I had together. We were free and in love, life was full of promise and the sun shone.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
George’s father was a bus driver and he was planning to buy him his own bus.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
He took them to London on New Year’s Eve, while Brian went by train. Like the rest of the boys, Neil had never been to London.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
In March Brian heard that Decca weren’t interested. The chap he spoke to told him groups with guitars were on the way out and they didn’t like the boys’ sound.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Once again John and I kissed good-bye.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John and Paul always had a special link between them, a chemistry that added to the heat: they knew intuitively how to share the stage and the limelight, how to spar with each other and how to play the audience so that the girls went wild.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Although George was quieter than the others too, when it came to banter he could give as good as he got. Just when you thought he wasn’t listening to one of John’s wicked teases he’d shoot back a withering line that had everyone in stitches.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Pete was getting on the others’ nerves. It wasn’t that he did anything wrong: he was a nice guy and a good enough drummer. It was simply that his personality was different: he preferred to sit on his own rather than join in with the others’ non-stop banter.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Cynthia pinpointed Lennon’s wayward behavior with his subliminal goals: “Ultimately, of course, it was John who broke up the Beatles, just as he had formed them in the first place. He had moved on in his life, not just from me but from Paul, the other person who was closest to him throughout the sixties.
Tim Riley (Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life)
I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John’s girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn’t mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be
Cynthia Lennon (John)
I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John’s girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn’t mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be with John, I was content to stay in the shadows.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
My feelings for John were very different from those I’d had for any other boy: more powerful, more exciting and totally unshakeable. And I sensed in John the same strong feelings. Perhaps each of us recognised and was drawn to a deep need in the other. But at the time I didn’t analyse it. I simply felt certain that this was no passing fling. It was real love.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece’s, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece’s had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn’t care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn’t have made me happier.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
John's particular talents hadn't gone unnoticed but they weren't his artistic talents. They were his talents for having his fellow students fall about with shocked, uncontrollable laughter at his wicked, disrespectful wit. His ability to disrupt a lecture had to be seen to be believed and John's appearance was even worse than his humour. I think he was the last stronghold of the Teddy Boys - totally aggressive and anti-establishment. My first impression of John, as he slouched reluctantly into the lettering class for the first time, was one of apprehension. I felt that I had nothing in common with this individual and as far as I was concerned I never would. In fact he frightened me to death. The only thing that John and I had in common was that we were both blind as bats without our glasses.
Cynthia Lennon (A Twist Of Lennon)
was grateful, relieved and happy. I’d have understood if he had walked away, although it would have hurt. And although I hadn’t thought about marriage yet – believing we had years in which to make that kind of decision – I was certain that I loved him and wanted to be with him. So, on a summer’s night in my little room, John and I decided to marry, have our baby and become a family together. We loved each other and it was what we both wanted, even if it had been forced on us far sooner than we’d have wished.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Then one morning the nightmare happened. John and I were in bed together when I heard the landlady calling up the stairs – she was coming to empty the meter, which was in my room. We panicked. I wrapped myself in a sheet and fled into Dot’s room, leaving John to his fate. I heard the landlady go in and, a few minutes later, come out and go back down the stairs. Baffled, I went back into my room. No sign of John. It took me a minute or two to work out that he was under the large pile of blankets, coats and clothing on the bed. He’d grabbed whatever he could see from around the room and piled it on top of himself. Gasping for air and red-faced, he crawled out, cursing the landlady. We thought we’d got away with it – until
Cynthia Lennon (John)
Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of former Beatle John Lennon and the mother of singer Julian Lennon, died April 1 at her home in Spain. She was 75.
Anonymous
events. First, just after I sat my finals at art college, the boys’ breakthrough arrived: after almost two months of agonising, they heard that George Martin wanted them to sign a contract with Parlophone Records. We
Cynthia Lennon (John)
the boys wanted someone they could have a laugh with, someone who shared their irreverent sense of humour.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again.
Cynthia Lennon (John)
I respected him enormously for standing by me when he knew it might ruin his career, just as he was on the brink of success: he had a streak of fundamental decency that went far beyond simply observing the convention of the day and I loved him for it.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
Many commentators on John’s life have said that John would never have married me if I hadn’t been pregnant. In the film Backbeat I was portrayed as a clingy, dim little girlfriend in a headscarf. Totally wrong, of course. Quite apart from anything else I never wore a headscarf.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
halfway through, George Martin had decided he didn’t want Ringo and had brought in a session drummer. The boys were upset and Ringo was devastated, but none of them dared say anything—George had already overstepped the mark when George Martin told them, “Let me know if there’s anything you don’t like,” and George quipped, “Well, for a start I don’t like your tie.” That remark, so typical of the boys’ humor, has been immortalized since, but at the time they were afraid they’d gone too far, that they’d better shut up and get on with the record.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
I know that to many people John’s behavior during that period seemed brave, honest and innovative, but as the mother of his confused small son, it was hard to see it like that. Along with many other people who loved John—his family and friends—I looked on with dismay as his actions appeared increasingly self-obsessed and he spared little thought for the feelings of those who had once been closest to him. He seemed so intense and took himself deadly seriously too, which wasn’t the John I had known, and many of his old friends and family felt the same.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John and Paul, who once made music together with such passion, excitement and brilliance, had found it harder and harder to get on together as the sixties drew to a close. Their musical ideas and tastes were diverging as Paul went on writing ballads, like “Hey Jude,” while John wrote raw and challenging songs like “Hey Jude”’s B side, “Revolution,” commemorating the international student riots of 1968. The Magical Mystery Tour film had been their first project after Brian’s death and Paul had organized it; John had backed off. Although they’d gone on to write several more songs together and even make another film, Let It Be, the pleasure had gone out of it for them and it was clear to me from 1967 that they would eventually go their own ways.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John had told the other Beatles he was breaking up the group, prompted, apparently, by the chaos at Apple.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
Paul didn’t trust Klein and refused to sign with him, turning instead to his new father-in-law, Lee Eastman, who was also a successful showbusiness lawyer. This had led to enormous tension between John and Paul.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
But when John began to bring Yoko to recording sessions and consult her about everything he did there, even allowing her to criticize what they were doing, it was too much for the others. They hated it, and it was clear that the arrangement wouldn’t last amicably for long.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John had just released “Imagine,” the song that would become an international anthem for peace, telling the world to “live as one,” yet he couldn’t pick up the phone, make peace with me and arrange to see his own son. Surely, I reasoned, Julian meant more to him than some foolish agreement with Yoko about dealing with each other’s ex-partner. I was wrong. It was three years before John saw Julian again.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
If Dad can’t come and see me then why can’t I go and see him?” he asked. What could I say? “I think he’s very busy getting settled in America. I’m sure he’ll be in touch soon.” But as time passed with no word Julian drew his own conclusions. “Dad’s always telling people to love each other,” he said to me one day, “but how come he doesn’t love me?
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
I felt sorry for Yoko, who must have longed for her daughter, but at the same time I wondered whether John had made some kind of odd pact with her—I won’t see my child until you see yours. It was the only explanation I could think of for his neglect of Julian.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
I flew back to England with Julian, who was happy and full of stories about John—he’d recorded Julian playing drums in the studio, then used the result on one of the tracks for his new album, Walls and Bridges. When it came out a few months later, Julian was credited, which thrilled him.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John’s erratic behavior around Julian continued—fun one moment and violent anger the next. And he could be like this with Sean too, reducing the little boy to tears of terror. Fred Seaman, or sometimes Yoko, would act as a buffer when John lost his temper. Julian was constantly on tenterhooks, sensing that an eruption was coming and retreating to his room in the hope of avoiding it.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
John was anti anything conventional.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)
Lennon’s behaviour became ever more unpredictable. In the first week of May, with Cynthia on holiday abroad, he spent an evening with Shotton in his music room at Kenwood. Both took LSD, smoked cannabis and made some experimental recordings. Shortly before dawn they fell into silence, which was eventually punctuated by Lennon’s solemn announcement: ‘Pete, I think I’m Jesus Christ.’ Shotton was more than familiar with his friend’s bizarre flights of fancy, but this was a revelation too far. He attempted to pour cold water on Lennon’s sudden eagerness to tell the world of his new identity, perhaps mindful of the ‘More popular than Jesus’ controversy of 1966. ‘They’ll fucking kill you,’ he told Lennon. ‘They won’t accept that, John.’ Lennon grew agitated, telling Shotton that it was his destiny, and that he would inform the other Beatles at Apple. A board meeting was hastily convened that day, attended by the Beatles, Shotton, Taylor and Aspinall. Lennon opened the meeting by solemnly telling the others that he was the second coming of Jesus. ‘Paul, George, Ringo and their closest aides stared back, stunned,’ Shotton said. ‘Even after regaining their powers of speech, nobody presumed to cross-examine John Lennon, or to make light of his announcement. On the other hand, no specific plans were made for the new Messiah, as all agreed that they would need some time to ponder John’s announcement, and to decide upon appropriate further steps.’ The meeting came to an abrupt close, and all agreed to go to a restaurant. As they waited to be seated, a fellow diner recognised Lennon and exchanged pleasantries. ‘Actually,’ Lennon told him, ‘I’m Jesus Christ.’ ‘Oh, really,’ the man replied, seemingly unfazed by the news. ‘Well, I loved your last record. Thought it was great.’328
Joe Goodden (Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs)
When Mo and Ringo parted in 1974 she had been so heartbroken that she got on a motorbike and drove it straight into a brick wall, badly injuring herself.
Cynthia Lennon (John: A Biography)