01APRIL2015....MAY CYNTHIA LENNON'S SOUL REST IN PEACE...
Merela Carrido
1 min ·
In memory of Cynthia Lennon...ex-beatle wife of Jon Lennon and mother of Julian. May she rest in peace.
'Born Cynthia Powell in 1939, she met the Beatle in a lettering class at the Liverpool College of Art in 1957. Lennon teased her, yet she found him attractive. When she found out what he found attractive, she grew her blonde hair long like Brigitte Bardot. She had a fiancé at the time, but broke it off to date Lennon.
"It was just an instant attraction...something about him that was for me," she once told interviewer Gary James. "I was fascinated to the point where I wanted to know who he was, what he was, where he'd come from and what had made him into who he was at that time, which we all found out later on. That was it really. It was an attraction that I couldn't help."
Upon learning she was pregnant, John insisted they marry. They were wed on August 23rd, 1962 at a London register's office. The witnesses were Paul McCartney, George Harrison, manager Brian Epstein and her brother Tony and his wife. The couple later had lunch with Harrison and McCartney at a nearby restaurant. Later that night, Lennon played a gig with the Beatles and spent most of his time in the months that followed touring, according to U.S. News & World Report and The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia.
Cynthia Lennon, the former wife of John Lennon, died Wednesday in her home in Mallorca, Spain. She had been battling cancer and passed away with her son, Julian, by her side. She was 75.
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1 min ·
In memory of Cynthia Lennon...ex-beatle wife of Jon Lennon and mother of Julian. May she rest in peace.
Click to view'Born Cynthia Powell in 1939, she met the Beatle in a lettering class at the Liverpool College of Art in 1957. Lennon teased her, yet she found him attractive. When she found out what he found attractive, she grew her blonde hair long like Brigitte Bardot. She had a fiancé at the time, but broke it off to date Lennon.
"It was just an instant attraction...something about him that was for me," she once told interviewer Gary James. "I was fascinated to the point where I wanted to know who he was, what he was, where he'd come from and what had made him into who he was at that time, which we all found out later on. That was it really. It was an attraction that I couldn't help."
Upon learning she was pregnant, John insisted they marry. They were wed on August 23rd, 1962 at a London register's office. The witnesses were Paul McCartney, George Harrison, manager Brian Epstein and her brother Tony and his wife. The couple later had lunch with Harrison and McCartney at a nearby restaurant. Later that night, Lennon played a gig with the Beatles and spent most of his time in the months that followed touring, according to U.S. News & World Report and The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia.
Cynthia Lennon, the former wife of John Lennon, died Wednesday in her home in Mallorca, Spain. She had been battling cancer and passed away with her son, Julian, by her side. She was 75.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/…/john-lennons-ex-wife-cynthia-…
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