John Lennon hit 1st wife.

[The*Empress]

John knew and admitted in a song on the Sgt. Pepper's album that he was cruel and hit Cynthia.

..."I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can."... "It's Getting Better"

Updated: 08:18 AM EDT
First Wife Says John Lennon Hit Her


"He raised his arm and hit me across the face, knocking my head into the pipes," writes Lennon's ex-wife, Cynthia.


LONDON (Sept. 12) - John Lennon's first wife says the late Beatle had a violent temper and once hit her in a fit of jealousy, according to excerpts from a new book published in a newspaper Sunday.

Cynthia Lennon met John in the late 1950s in Liverpool, where they were both art students. They married in 1962 and had a son, Julian, before divorcing in 1968.

Cynthia Lennon writes in "John," that he was prone to violent tantrums, according to an excerpt published in The Sunday Times, which is serializing the book. "I could put up with his outbursts, the jealousy and possessiveness but not the violence," she writes.

In the excerpt published Sunday, Cynthia describes the only occasion when John struck her. She wrote that while they were at art college, John had become jealous after seeing her dance with his close friend Stuart Sutcliffe, one of the Beatles' early members.

"The next day at college he followed me to the girls' loos (toilets) in the basement. When I came out he was waiting with a dark look on his face. Before I could speak he raised his arm and hit me across the face, knocking my head into the pipes that ran down the wall behind me," Cynthia wrote.

She said he took three months to apologize for hitting her and ask her to go out with him again. "Although he was still verbally cutting and unkind, he was never again physically violent to me."

The book, published by The Crown Publishing Group, goes on sale in Britain on Sept. 27.



09/11/05 22:05 EDT

 

[The*Empress]

why this man didn't get karma, why nobody go after him for doing wrong.

Why people revenge on me when I did bad things?

How come John Lennon is still a favorite to everybody???

How come I have to go seek counseling and not other people such as
he?

Why no sorority sisters or fratnerity brothers or other enemies go after him?

 

[Levonian]

Yeah, I agree. I don’t see why everybody thinks the Sun rises and sets on John Lennon. He was just another celebrity who was full of himself. The guy was worthless.

 

[Oceanbreeze]

why this man didn't get karma, why nobody go after him for doing wrong.

Why people revenge on me when I did bad things?

How come John Lennon is still a favorite to everybody???

How come I have to go seek counseling and not other people such as
he?

Why no sorority sisters or fratnerity brothers or other enemies go after him?

He's dead, so Karma came back and bit him on the behind after all. A crazed lunatic shot him dead.

Everyone is responsible for their own actions, and there's consequences for everything that we do. You can't just go through life doing bad things or making bad decisions, and expect to not have consequences for those things. Even if you think you've gotten away with it in this life, you'll pay for it in the next life.

What comes around goes around.

 

[The*Empress]

What kind of life did john lennon had when he was younger...
We don't know much about him...

All I know that he made some nice songs.

 

[The*Empress]

At 7:00 a.m. on October 9, 1940, John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool England. It was a time when England was involved in the Second World War.

At the time of John's birth, his father, Fred Lennon, was at sea. Julia, John's mother, felt unable to care for a newborn, and so she asked John's Aunt Mimi and Uncle George to care for the child. In essence, John was orphaned by his own parents, and was displaced from the moment of his birth to the care of surrogate parents.

John would later write:

Mother, you had me,

But I didn't have you,

I wanted you,

You didn't want me. . .

("Mother" John Lennon)



Fred Lennon returned to Liverpool five years after John's birth. In 1946, he took the young John to Blackpool, and he made plans to emigrate with John to New Zealand. John's mother, however, intervened, and John was returned to live with his Aunt Mimi.

John's childhood was troubled by his own sense of displacement from his parents and a streak of rebelliousness that he had developed under the strict rules of his Aunt Mimi. He became an unwilling student at Dovedale Primary School, preferring drawing cartoons and sketches over his studies. This pattern continued until Mimi was able to persuade the principal at Quarry Bank Grammar School to writer a letter of recommendation for John to attend the Liverpool Art College.

"My whole school life was a case of -'I couldn't care less.' It was a joke as far as I was concerned. Art was the only thing I could do, and my headmaster told me that if I didn't go to art school, I might as well give up life."
(John Lennon)


By 1955, a new musical interest was sweeping across Britain. "Skiffle groups" would play on the street with only few instruments, often simply a guitar or two, a washboard, and a simple snare drum. In the U.K., these groups were the forerunners of the rock 'n' roll band. For John, skiffle music became an obsession.

He asked his Aunt Mimi for a guitar, but she refused to waste her money on what she saw was just a "craze." Undaunted, John remembered that his mother played the banjo, and so went to Julia for a guitar. She bought him one, and she even taught him banjo chords. The first song John learned was "That'll Be The Day."

Aunt Mimi was not pleased with John's new passion. She wouldn't allow him to play or practice the guitar in her house. He had to stand in the glass porch at the front, playing and singing to himself. She would tell him:

"A guitar's all right, John, but you'll never earn your living by it."
(Aunt Mimi)


It wasn't long before John started his own skiffle band with his best friend, Pete Shotton and some other friends from the Liverpool Institute. They called themselves "The Quarrymen," and they played for free or "a few bob" at local parties. The band was going nowhere, often because John would be the cause of arguments among the members.


"It was all just a joke, setting up a group. Skiffle was in, so everybody was trying to do something. I was on washboard because I had no idea about music. I was John's friend, so I had to be in."

(Pete Shotton)


The Quarrymen's first major "gig" was on July 6, 1957 at an outdoor party at the Woolton Parish Church. Ivan Vaughan, one of John's friends, introduced John to another young musician after the band had finished for the day. That was the day that John Lennon met Paul McCartney.

 

[The*Empress]

John Lennon's childhood years were struck with tragedy. He lived with his parents in Liverpool until his father, Fred Lennon, walked out on the family. His mother, Julia, then decided that she was unable to care for John as well as she should and so gave him to her sister, Mimi, who resided nearby at 251 Menlove Avenue. Although John lived apart from his mother he still kept in contact with her through regular visits, and during this time she was responsible for introducing her son to a lifelong interest in music by teaching him how to play the banjo. John's life was to change dramatically soon after his 16th birthday when his mother was killed after she was struck by a car which was being driven by a drunken off-duty police officer. (The young Lennon unfortunately witnessed this event and it had a profound influence on some of his later songs). His Aunt Mimi was able to get him accepted into the Liverpool College of Art by showing them some of his drawings, and it was there that he met his future wife, Cynthia Powell. However, John steadily grew to hate the conformity of art school and like many young men of his age became increasingly interested in Rock 'n' Roll music and American singers like Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly. Eventually, in the late 1950s, Lennon formed his own skiffle group called The Quarry Men, which later became The Silver Beatles (a tribute to Buddy Holly's Crickets) and soon afterwards was shortened to The Beatles.

 

[Nancy]

I agree with OceanBreeze and Levonian....John Lennon, to me was full of himself....and he was shot dead by a crazed fan. I have never been a fan of the Beatles, even though I love 1950s and early 1960s music.....they just don't have my kind of taste.

Speaking of him hitting his first wife and singing a song about it....it reminded me of current singer Eneniem singing a song about killing his (then) wife.

 

[The*Empress]

You guys are scaring me, just because he is full of himself and hit his wife one time... deserved to be shot dead by a lunatic??

Wow. I guess I need to be shot too.