A Twist Of Lennon – Cynthia Lennon

He was furious with me and he looked _ at me with such hate and anger felt as though had committed the basest of crimes. Incredible as it sounds he didn’t speak to me for two whole days. He couldn’t even bring himself to look at me. I was beginning to think that this was the end, and what a way to go, when John re- lented, realizing the stupidity of his irrational behaviour. Please Please Me was a Number One hit, a phenomenal success. The Beatles were on the crest of a wave.

They shook the very foundations. of the music industry. Agents and publishers were clamouring for a part of the action, and Brian was counting his blessings and the profits with glee. His faith in the boys and his efforts were coming to fruition. A very sincere and conscientious man, he loved the Beatles dearly. They were his children, his family, his whole life. Whatever he did, he did for them.

The oppor- tunity for fulfilling all his ambitions was being presented to him in the shape of four scruffy lads from Liverpool. _ And his innate business sense told Brian that the scruff would have to go. Collarless beige suits were to take their place, uniformity in dress and hair-styles would present the clean-cut innocent image that would appeal to the public.

‘Bloody hell, Brian, do we have to?’ was the unanimous cry from the heart. ‘I hate suits, Brian. We’ll all look like a bunch of pansies.’ ‘They’ll all think we’re trying to copy the Shadows, Brian. Oh Christ, do we have to?’ and so on. Brian was adamant. Publicity photographs were taken of the four, fresh-faced young innocents, grinning with em- barrassment. It must have been embarrassing for John to grin!

The rock ’n roll band which started so innocently in a Liverpool art college took control of the lives of the group and John’s wife Cynthia, transport- ing them from obscurity to a world of limitless money, idolatry, and sumptuous living without precedent. Cynthia describes that unreal life— the personality changes, the conmen and hangers- on, the groupies, the drugs, the jet-setters, and finally the appearance of Yoko Ono. Beyond – that, Cynthia Lennon captures the magic of the Beatles, a magic that will not die!

WITH PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE AUTHOR’S ORIGINAL DRAWINGS AVON a PUBLISHERS OFBARD,CAMELOT ANDDISCUSBOOKS AVON BOOKS A division of The Hearst Corporation 959 Kighth Avenue Sa New York, New York 10019 Ree Copyright © 1978 by Cynthia Twist Published by arrangement with W. H. Allen & Co., Inc. : Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-55393 “38 ISBN: 0-380-45450-5 Cover illustration and design by Kenneth Kneitel a All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

For information address W. H. Allen Publishers, Inc., 260 Madison Avenue, _New York, New York 10016 First Avon Printing, January, 1980 AVON TRADEMARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. AND IN OTHER COUNTRIES, MARCA REGISTRADA, _ HECHO EN U.S.A. Printed in the U.S.A. Ser et War Baby You may remember a famous comedian whose act began: ‘The day war broke out, my missus said to me…’

Well, the day war broke out my mother was expecting her third and positively last child—me! But with His Majesty’s Gov- ernment’s emergency evacuation measures coinciding with this promised addition to the family (my mother thinking she had long ago looked the last dirty nappy in the face) there was very little to laugh about.

For my two brothers, Tony and Charles, evacuation meant being transported lock, stock and bottle of pop from a densely populated part of Liverpool to the nether regions of North Wales. It could have been outer Mongolia as far as they were concerned. But by all accounts they fared better with their adopted family than my mother, who, like hundreds of other pregnant mums at that time, was carted off to Blackpool, Lancs.

Just picture the scene. Autumn 1939. Grey days in every respect. The place, Blackpool-by-the-sea.

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