"Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lillian Lennon (""née"" Powell; 10 September 1939 – 1 April 2015) was the first wife of English musician John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of 12, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the Liverpool College of Art. John Lennon also attended the college; a meeting with Powell in a calligraphy class led to their relationship. When John was performing in Hamburg with the Beatles, she rented his bedroom from"
"John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music. He and fellow member Paul McCartney formed a much-celebrated songwriting partnership. Along with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the group would ascend to worldwide fame during the 1960s. After the group disbanded in 1970, Lennon pursued a solo career and started the band Plastic Ono Band with his second wife Yoko Ono. He was born as John Winston Lennon in Liverpool, where he became involved in"
"Lennon—Lennon's wife at the time—took them both out shopping in Knightsbridge, buying them expensive clothes. During the same visit, The Beatles played at the Finsbury Park Astoria, and the sisters asked to be allowed to stand near the front, but had to be pulled out of the audience by security guards because of the crush. In December 1965, Dykins was killed in a car crash at the bottom of Penny Lane. Lennon was not told about his death for months afterwards. Dykins had married again, but Baird acknowledges that she and Jackie had very little contact with his wife, and"
"sudden closing of the EPI with their therapy unfinished. Janov wrote them a letter saying, ""I can not live anymore in the midst of pain and misery; after 35 years seeing patients, it is time for me to live my own life."" In June 1989, two fires caused an estimated $US475,000 ($821,000 in 2009 dollars) damage at The Primal Institute in West Los Angeles. Authorities ruled the fire as arson. In 1989, Arthur Janov established the Janov Primal Center in Venice (later relocated to Santa Monica) with his second wife, France. The musician John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono,"
"May Pang May Fung Yee Pang (born October 24, 1950) is an American, best known as a girlfriend of John Lennon. She had previously worked for Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as a personal assistant and production coordinator. When Lennon and Ono separated In 1973, Pang and Lennon began a relationship that lasted more than 18 months, a time which Lennon later referred to as his ""Lost Weekend."" Pang subsequently produced two books about their relationship: a memoir called ""Loving John"" (Warner, 1983) and a book of photographs, ""Instamatic Karma"" (St. Martin's Press, 2008). Pang was married to producer"
"Murder of John Lennon John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. On the evening of Monday, 8 December 1980, Lennon was shot and killed by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. After sustaining four major gunshot wounds, Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at Roosevelt Hospital. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at"
"as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life. She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. On 15 July 1958, she was struck down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. Lennon was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs"
"him in 1973. In 1976, she married John Twist, an engineer from Lancashire, but divorced him in 1983. After her divorce from Twist, she changed her name back to ""Lennon"" by deed poll and met Jim Christie, her partner for 17 years. She was later married to Noel Charles, a night club owner, from 2002 until his death in 2013. She published a book of memoirs, ""A Twist of Lennon"", in 1978, and a more intimate biography, ""John"", in 2005. Over the years she staged several auctions of memorabilia associated with her life with John Lennon. Until her death in"
"and violinist Ivry Gitlis. Lennon and Ono continued with their experimental releases parallel to Lennon's activities in the Beatles, releasing """" in May 1969. On 20 March 1969, Lennon and Ono married, and subsequently began their first ""Bed-in for Peace"" event. The event saw the new couple using press coverage of their marriage to advocate for peace. Recordings made around this time would be released as their third and final experimental album, ""Wedding Album"". Following the success of the first bed-in, Lennon and Ono held a second in Montreal in May. During the Bed-in, the couple and their guests recorded"
"October 2010 to celebrate Lennon's 70th birth anniversary. Cynthia lived with her husband, Noel, on the island of Majorca in Spain until his death on 11 March 2013. She died on 1 April 2015 at her home in Majorca, Spain, at the age of 75 after a short struggle with cancer, with her son Julian by her side. Public messages of condolence were made by McCartney and Starr, with the former saying ""She was a lovely lady who I've known since our early days together in Liverpool. She was a good mother to Julian and will be missed by us"
"""Double Fantasy"" seems an impressive feat for a new label, but at the time Lennon stated that Geffen was the only one with enough confidence in him to agree to a deal without hearing the record first. Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife and partner, stated that Geffen was the only label head to pay attention to her. In December 1980, Lennon was murdered and ""Double Fantasy"" became a massive seller. Over the years Geffen Records/DGC has become well known as a label, releasing works by the likes of Olivia Newton-John, Asia with Steve Howe and John Wetton, Elton John, Cher, Sonic"
"a horse called ""Drake's Drum"", and a couple of years later, the horse won the race immediately preceding the Grand National. Jim died of bronchial pneumonia on 18 March 1976, weeks before the death of his son’s bandmate’s father Alfred Lennon. His second wife, Angela McCartney (née Stopforth), said that his last words were ""I'll be with Mary soon."" Jim died two days before a Wings European tour; Paul was unable to attend the funeral. Jim was cremated at Landican Cemetery, near Heswall, Merseyside on 22 March 1976. Mary Patricia Mohan was born at 2 Third Avenue, Fazakerley, Liverpool. When"
"Lennon (1912) were born at 27 Copperfield Street. Jack eventually married Polly in 1915, after they had moved to Elmore Street, Everton. One of the witnesses at the wedding was Polly's sister, Catherine Seddon. Daughter Edith Lennon was born that year and then Charles (21 November 1918 – 26 May 2002). The Lennons moved back to Toxteth Park, and Jack died in 1921, at 57 Copperfield Street. He was buried on 6 August 1921 at Allerton Cemetery. His grave, number 206 in Roman Catholic section 4, is an unmarked public grave. Polly could not read or write, but was reported"
"from performing due to advanced fibromyalgia. Hamlin formally retired from the music industry in 1963 after her marriage to guitarist Noah Tafolla. The couple had two children. Joey Tafolla, and Deborah ( 1964). Hamlin died in her sleep of undisclosed causes on March 30, 2017 at her home in New Mexico. Her family confirmed she had suffered health problems in her later life which prevented her from performing live. Hamlin's track ""Angel Baby"" was cited by John Lennon as one of his favorite songs, and he covered the track in 1975. She was the first Latina to be honored by"
"the skiffle craze as a teenager. In 1957, he formed his first band, the Quarrymen, which evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Lennon began to record as a solo artist before the band's break-up in April 1970; two of those songs were ""Give Peace a Chance"" and ""Instant Karma!"" Lennon subsequently produced albums that included ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" and ""Imagine"", and songs such as ""Working Class Hero"", ""Imagine"" and ""Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"". After he married Yoko Ono in 1969, he added ""Ono"" as one of his middle names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business in 1975"
"Mrs. Lennon ""Mrs. Lennon"" is Yoko Ono's first single from her second studio album ""Fly"" (1971). It includes the B-side ""Midsummer New York"". The song was also featured in the film ""Imagine"" (not to be confused with the ). ""Slant Magazine"" critic Zachary Hoskins described ""Mrs. Lennon"" as a ""haunting, piano-led ballad."" Ono biographers Nell Beram & Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky described the song's theme as the way the public defined Ono solely as ex-Beatle John Lennon's wife and did not recognize her as an artist in her own right. Beram & Boriss-Krimsky feel that the lack of promotion her records including"
"the group: ""We've been very negative since Mr. Epstein passed away ... we were always fighting [his] discipline a bit, but it's silly to fight that discipline if it's our own"". In March 1969, McCartney married his first wife, Linda Eastman, and in August, the couple had their first child, Mary, named after his late mother. ""Abbey Road"" was the band's last recorded album, and Martin suggested ""a continuously moving piece of music"", urging the group to think symphonically. McCartney agreed, but Lennon did not. They eventually compromised, agreeing to McCartney's suggestion: an LP featuring individual songs on side one,"
"do Sol, and also a French restaurant, Cigalon. The town hosts a Bardot statue by Christina Motta. Bardot was idolized by the young John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They made plans to shoot a film featuring The Beatles and Bardot, similar to ""A Hard Day's Night"", but the plans were never fulfilled. Lennon's first wife Cynthia Powell lightened her hair color to more closely resemble Bardot, while George Harrison made comparisons between Bardot and his first wife Pattie Boyd, as Cynthia wrote later in ""A Twist of Lennon"". Lennon and Bardot met in person once, in 1968 at the Mayfair"
"Yoko Ono Yoko Ono (, ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art, which she performs in both English and Japanese, and filmmaking. She was the second wife of singer-songwriter John Lennon of the Beatles. Ono grew up in Tokyo and also spent several years in New York City. She studied at Gakushuin University, but withdrew from her course after two years and moved to New York in 1953 to live with her family. She spent some time at Sarah Lawrence College and then became involved in"
"years. We have paid several hundred thousand dollars for research to maintain our scientific integrity. We fund therapy for those who cannot afford it"". Janov claimed that primal therapy could ""cure"" homosexuality. Janov's patients included musician John Lennon and artist Yoko Ono. Janov was first married to Vivian Glickstein in 1949, but they separated in 1975 and divorced in 1980 so that Art could remarry. He married France Daunic four months later in 1980 and was still married to her at the time of his death. Janov had two children from his first marriage – Rick Janov, a primal therapist,"
"in the same hotel. Pang lives with her children in upstate New York and produces a line of stainless steel feng shui jewelry. She volunteers with an animal shelter called Animal Haven in New York and owns a dog rescued after Hurricane Katrina. She also co-hosts an Internet talk radio show, ""Dinner Specials with Cynthia and May Pang"", at blogtalkradio.com, with on-air partner Cynthia Neilson. May Pang May Fung Yee Pang (born October 24, 1950) is an American, best known as a girlfriend of John Lennon. She had previously worked for Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono as a personal"
"tell Mimi"". Lennon continued to call Baird until 1976, when the calls stopped. Jackie worked as a shop assistant during the 1970s, but battled against a heroin addiction. In the 1980s, and fully recovered, Jackie gave birth to her son, John, later working as a hairstylist. After Lennon and Harriet died, Yoko Ono wanted to sell the house—as it was still in Lennon's name—but later gave it to the Salvation Army on 2 November 1993, even though Lennon had once written: ""I always thought of the house he's in [Birch] as my contribution towards looking after Julia [Baird] and Jackie."
"this time, John Lennon of the Beatles and his wife Yoko Ono took up the mantle of a more prominent media role, as a force for continuing the 'humane revolution' that was politically opposed to the 'establishment'. As early as March 1969 the couple had conducted their first ""Bed-In for Peace""; in August 1971 they moved to New York City and joined up with the Chicago Trial ""Yippie"" defendants and other notable activists. In December 1971, Lennon sang at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Michigan, calling attention to Sinclair's ten-year prison sentence for giving two joints to an undercover"
"went through primal therapy in 1970. A copy of the just-released ""The Primal Scream"" arrived in the mail at Lennon's home, Tittenhurst Park (sources differ about who sent the book). Lennon was impressed, and he requested primal therapy to be started at Tittenhurst. Arthur Janov and his first wife, Vivian Janov, went to Tittenhurst in March 1970 to start the therapy, which continued in April in Los Angeles. Arthur Janov went to Tittenhurst after giving instructions in advance about the isolation period and giving instructions to Lennon to be separated from Ono. Lennon and Ono had three weeks of intensive"
"of the 72-acre property. In September 1969, Prabhupada finally came to visit the new UK base, reuniting with his disciples and meeting Harrison and Lennon for the first time. Held in a former recital hall in the grounds of Tittenhurst Park, Prabhupada's meeting with the two Beatles and Yoko Ono, Lennon's wife, led to a philosophical discussion about topics such as the Bhagavad Gita, mantras and Krishna. Their conversation was taped by Shyamsundar and later made available as ""Lennon '69: Search for Liberation"", the first publication in Mukunda's Vedic Contemporary Library Series. Of the two bandmates, Lennon was the one"
"him closer to McCartney, who had also lost his mother at an early age. Julia's memory inspired songs such as the 1968 Beatles song ""Julia"", with its dreamlike imagery of ""hair of floating sky glimmering"", recalling Lennon's boyhood memories of his mother. Lennon remarked that the song ""was sort of a combination of Yoko [Ono] and my mother blended into one"". ""Mother"" and ""My Mummy's Dead"" were both written under the influence of Arthur Janov's ""Primal Scream"" therapy, and released on his solo album ""John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band"" in 1970. Lennon's first son, Julian, born in 1963, was named after"
"whole. John Lennon, former member of the Beatles, did most of his activism in his solo career with wife Yoko Ono. Given his immense fame due to the success of the Beatles, he was a very prominent movement figure with the constant media and press attention. Still being proactive on their honeymoon, the newlyweds controversially held a sit-in, where they sat in bed for a week answering press questions. They held numerous sit-ins, one where they first introduced their song ""Give Peace a Chance"". Lennon and Ono's song overshadowed many previous held anthems, as it became known as the ultimate"
"the way I really need you."" He added that ""every love song I write is for Linda."" They were married in a small civil ceremony in the Marylebone area of London on March 12, 1969. British fans reacted negatively, partly because his marriage ended McCartney's status as the last unattached Beatle. John Lennon married Yoko Ono a week later, and both women were perceived by fans as reasons for the group's break-up. Lennon at one point publicly criticized the way the press had treated Linda: ""She got the same kind of insults, hatred, absolute garbage thrown at her for no"
"unveiled a Blue Plaque at 34 Montagu Square: ""John Lennon, 1940–1980, Musician and songwriter, lived here in 1968"". Beatles' biographer, Hunter Davies, started the unveiling ceremony, with Rod Davis, from Lennon's first group, The Quarrymen, in the gathering. Ono said: I am very honoured to unveil this blue plaque and thank English Heritage for honouring John in this way. This particular flat has many memories for me and is a very interesting part of our history. In what would have been John's 70th year, I am grateful to you all for commemorating John and this particular part of his London"
"granted, Ono became pregnant, but she suffered the miscarriage of a male child on November 21, 1968. During the last two years that the Beatles performed, Lennon and Ono created and attended their own public protests against the Vietnam War. On March 20, 1969, they were married at the registry office in Gibraltar and spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam, campaigning with a week-long Bed-In for Peace. They planned another Bed-In in the US, but were denied entry to the country. They held one instead at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, where they recorded ""Give Peace a Chance"". Lennon later"
"memorial was later created. Chapman avoided going to trial when he ignored his attorney's advice and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20-years-to-life. In August 2018, he was denied parole for a 10th time. Lennon met Cynthia Powell (1939–2015) in 1957, when they were fellow students at the Liverpool College of Art. Although Powell was intimidated by Lennon's attitude and appearance, she heard that he was obsessed with the French actress Brigitte Bardot, so she dyed her hair blonde. Lennon asked her out, but when she said that she was engaged, he screamed out, ""I didn't ask"
"Julia Lennon Julia Lennon (née Stanley; 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was given up for adoption after pressure from her family. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John 'Bobby' Dykins. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live"
"she had an affair while he was married to his first wife, Leah Gladys Powell White) at a time when such a marriage was viewed as scandalous, not least within the Black community, some of whom viewed White's marriage to a White woman as a betrayal. The couple lived in New York until White's death in 1955. She wrote a biography of White, ""Gentle Knight"", published the following year. She died in a fall from the 23rd floor balcony of her apartment at 10 Park Avenue in New York City. Poppy Cannon Poppy Cannon (August 2, 1905 – April 1,"