“It was just coming back and it was wonderful. “Near the end, before his tragic death, of course, they were getting close on the phone they were connecting,” she said. He was later murdered by a troubled fan in New York in 1980.Īt the time John was reconciling with Julian, the son he had had with Cynthia. John left her for Japanese artist Yoko Ono in 1968 and the couple was divorced.
They stayed together until 1968, as The Beatles grew to be the world’s biggest group.
“He was a very jealous young man at the time, and he had a lot of pain inside,” she said, explaining that he had once hit her. In her 2006 memoir of the relationship, John, Cynthia said the pair had had an intense but turbulent relationship. “You couldn’t resist watching what he was up to. “You couldn’t resist being around him,” Cynthia Lennon said in a 2005 interview with US television. Julian Lennon wrote and sang a song of tribute to his mother that was posted on the site.Ĭynthia met John Lennon at an art class in the British city of Liverpool when she was 18 and the couple married in 1962. The family are thankful for your prayers,” it added. “Her son Julian Lennon was at her bedside throughout.
NEW YORK, USA – Cynthia Lennon, the British first wife of The Beatles’ songwriter John Lennon, has died aged 75, the couple’s son Julian said Wednesday, April 1.Ī message on the musician’s website said Lennon “passed away today at her home in Mallorca, Spain, following a short but brave battle with cancer.”
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