Pete Shotton seems very sincere in comments about his relationship with John. I found him very articulate, intelligent and sensitive. John had a really good mate in Pete....
I can tell, even from these interviews that Pete was very honest & also consciously cautious about talking about his relationship with John. I admire that.
Though in Shotton's book "John Lennon: In My Life" I think he mentions that he lost contact of John, as well as many others who used to be close to him, when he moved to America.
His books amazing,great read,bought it on hols in america for 50c, didn't realise what I was buying I just liked the poster in the middle of it,turned out to be the best Beatles book if read,great insight from what appears to be a true gentleman.
Another great part of Peter's book is when he talks about John writing the song "In My Life". He mentions the line about "for people and things that have gone before/I know I'll often stop and think about them" and John mentioned Stuart Sutcliffe. He also told Pete "You know I love you, too, Pete, but I really miss Stuart." If you go back through the history of The Beatles, even after his death there are references to Stuart Sutcliffe. He shows up on the "Sgt. Pepper" album and again on the "Anthology" album. And, no doubt, he is one of those people referenced in the lyrics of "In My Life". John never forgot about Stuart and I think it could be argued that as close as he was to Paul McCartney that Stuart Sutcliffe probably was the best friend he ever had.
Baobabs -- well look who knows so much. You can't even tell the difference between someone who is making an assertion vs someone asking a question. Duhh
I owned and read that book The Beatles, Lennon, and Me by Pete Shotton. I sure do wish I still owned a copy of that book. That was the genesis of my 15 year study of the Beatles and their members. ❤
Pete seems like such a great guy. I read his book way back in the mid 80s when I was becoming an obsessive Beatles fan. It was quite the eye opener and remains one of the best books about them and John in particular. It's been used as a source for many of the books to come since including that hatchet job of Goldman.
Pete actually answered my email to him a few yrs before he died when I asked him a few questions about the day they met Paul McCartney at the church Fete...(he didn't quite remember) I can't remember how I got his email but he was very gracious to answer. John was good to Pete and set him up in a grocery business that carried him for decades.
john told him to cash in early on the beatles fame...interesting..shows what a great guy (even tho he had bad streaks) he was...he wanted his friend to do well too...i believe he bought him a grocery store too..
-read it too, Pete was maybe the only person who said to John and to Yoko "fuck off" and "fuck you", and still be John"s very close friend...that"s because they were allready in childhood doing like everything together.
Shout ..this book which I haven't read and Pete Bests book are a great Pre-qual to a good 4 day stay in Liverpool. Visiting those places in the books is quite worth doing. We first went in 1991 and then another time after then last time around 2010. Taking notes before hand and seeking out those places..the one place we regret to have not visited is Pete Bests house where they played in the Club (Casbah)..while there a visit to some Historic sites is good and the Walker Art Museum & the Lady Lever.
It was already out of print by the time I first read it. I had the good fotune of finding a copy at Beatle Fest 1992 (don't think they're still doing that). There was a small stack of copies on a table in the far corner of the flea market portion. They were being sold for $5 each. I was a virtually broke 16-year-old, but I still would have paid far more than that.
I had always heard Pete describe as one of Lennon's best friends so I was really surprised at how negative his book was towards John. Pete also claims to have written some of the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby (he actually claims his contribution to the song was more than Lennons)
Hmm...I wasn't aware pete has a book out. Why did John take drugs? To search for different perspectives in his thinking/feelings/creativity. What did Yoko have? A similar intellect. In John's eyes she was his Japanese "princess".
Well said by Mr Shotton. Nobody has been able to explain Johns world so completely. Just a creative guy looking for an outlet to plug into, for the world he agreed with Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono didn't break up The Beatles. The Beatles broke up The Beatles. It was a gradual split from within that slowly but surely was happening and you can trace the roots of it as far back as 1966/1967. They could have split up after "Revolver" and it would have been an amicable one, but they felt like there was still music left to do and so they did "Sgt. Pepper" yet George Harrison really didn't have his heart in it and he admitted that. After Brian's death they probably should have taken some time off, but they plunged headfirst into "Magical Mystery Tour" which was largely Paul's brainchild and the other three were more or less sidemen to Paul which became an increasing accusation over the next couple of years with The Beatles. I think that Paul gets unfairly blamed for the failure of "Magical Mystery Tour" because they were all involved with it, but he was pretty much in charge and the "de facto" director of the film. After that, Paul more or less became the de facto manager and I don't say that in a negative light because I don't think it was his intention. He just happened to be the most gung-ho in The Beatles about doing Beatles projects while the other three by that time were beginning to feel like it was time to put The Beatles to bed. And by the time "Abbey Road" was finished, both John and George were all but gone from the group. I think both of them saw it as the "swan song" for The Beatles and they were ready to move on. Paul wasn't. And I don't think Ringo was quite ready to move on either, but he was tired of the B.S. and the stress of the band. In hindsight, they probably should have taken a year or two off to do solo albums and then come back to do another Beatles album. But back then, when you were in a band and you suddenly decided to go solo, that usually meant the band was breaking up or you were leaving the group.
Magical Mystery Tour was Paul's way of keeping the Beatles moving forward with creative focus right after Brian Epstein's death. The irony here is that Paul, John, and George had enough creative ideas for at least 4 more albums, but they weren't able to sit down and have some give and take vision sharing.
NotTheBachelor Had it not been for Yoko, they'd have recorded again together. Maybe even toured again, eventually, as the Stones did after 3 years's pause. I've been reading quite a bit of bios about them and it's quite clear. In fact, during the "Lost Weekend" they had started to hang out again. But once Yoko regained control of John, she pulled up the bridge and that was that.
softclay4thought Yeah, during the las period, besides overlooking some of George's best stuff, they also scrapped John's "Jealous Guy" and "Imagine"! [Source: The Magical Mystery Tours: Tom Bramwell (2004)]
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Abby road was their desire to end on a high note after the white album recording fiasco. They returned to producer George Martin like the "old days"
Wow, this is a blast from the past. I lived in Quarry Street, not far from Mrs Shotton's grocery store. These guys were little ankle biters then. I was a Senior at John's school. Pete made a lot of money from a Supermarket chain he founded. (Fatty Arbuckles?) I don't know if John helped out with the cash. Last time I saw him was in Paphos, in 2007, judging a Karaoke contest. Poor guy was riddled with arthritis.
It wasn’t a normal existence for Julian as he pointed out himself when he got old enough to speak for himself. Julian was persecuted for being John’s son.
Pam H The Truth will be backed up how nasty & evil of a person she was. She will pay a lot of people off to keep quite about her so a lot of the Truth will not be told. It's so SAD a person like that has CONTROL OF ALL THAT MONEY. She will PAY people so people say good thing about her.
Some people have a pathological hatred for Yoko. Could she be annoying, assertive, pushy, manipulative, controlling at times? Maybe so, but who isn't at times? She didn't "know her place" and keep quiet like a good little wifey from the 60s, and people resented her for that. As if the object of their admiration (John Lennon) wouldn't have enough brains to know what he wanted in life, and who he wanted to love and spend his life with.
why doesn't everybody leave Yoko alone she's an older woman now and I'm probably sure that she's got Troubles of her own and all this hatred is not good for anybody .. they both loved each other and that's all that matters if you ever cared about John you would not attack the love of his life
Pete wanted to be a policeman in his younger years. The field where he practiced with his police dogs, was behind Paul McCartney's home in Forthlin Road. When you listen carefully to Pete speaking, there still is a little scouse accent. But Pet never became a policeman, but stayed a good friend to John. John made it possible for Pete to open up a supermarket in the 60ties.
Lots of boring questions that she could have asked anyone connected with John. She should have asked him more of the questions that Pete could have answered from his own unique perspective and view having been John’s real friend.
Yoko was similar to John's Aunty Mimi, strong and overpowering. I think that's what he subconsciously needed in his life but I believe he and Yoko treated Cynthia and Julian very badly. After John died Yoko denied Julian his inheritance for almost 16 years, what kind of a woman is that?
You are wrong The disgusting Cynthia was the 1 who treated John horribly When they were still married she cheated on him various times. Then, when John found happiness in Yoko, that Cynthia chick started putting crap in Julian‘s head You should also know that when John went to heaven Cynthia wanted all of John’s money She basically wanted to leave Yoko and Sean with nothing There’s a lot more that I could say but I will end this with something very important that nobody talks about and it is the fact that the disgusting Cynthia sold lots of John’s personal items in an auction This auction took place in London in the year 1991 When she was asked why she was selling those items she said that she wanted to get rid of all the deadwood Then, when asked what she was going to do with the money, she said that it was going to give her back, her security, which, in her words she lost when she was gobbled up by his legend I should also add that while John was still here on earth, he would send money to Julian Sadly, Cynthia would use all that money for all the men that she slept with, and then she would lie to Julian, telling him that his father didn’t care for him Cynthia Powell was a horrible woman, and I wish that John would have never met her However, I am thankful that he found a lovely woman, who gave him love and happiness, and that woman is Yoko Ono Lennon
Peter was a great guy and had a business brain. He made money for Lennon and paid him back. Ono never liked him though. He phoned John at The Dakota and he heard a lot of shouting and arguing in the background saying "he is not coming over". The home truth about Lennon is that outside him song writing everything he did was questionable. People want him to be this-that-and-the-other, but in reality he was quite rude and foul mouthed. Everyone has a story about how bad he could be on this bad days. What people don't get is that LSD split the music world, some people hated it some loved it. Lennon never liked being around people who didn't drug like him. Cynthia said he turned in to a zombie with it all. He was lucky he didn't go the way of Syd Barrett or Peter Green.
Yoko told Julian he could have one of John's guitars after his death. When Julian told her which one he wanted, she didn't let him have it. She also didn't encourage John to support him financially. Yeah, really nice person wasn't she?
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488no she didn’t it was the death of Brian Epstein and then John and George not wanting to be limited to the Beatles as well as the hiring of Allen Klein that broke up the band with the breaking point being John leaving
As Paul McCartney has said “John liked strong women” So it wasn’t just his mother but his Aunt Mimi as well And as Paul basically said, John’s first wife wasn’t a “strong woman”
John did love Cynthia and really relied on her after his mother died He was very angry when he thought that she had a thing for Stu Sutcliffe that he hit her and after they broke up he was so upset with himself and desperate to be back with her Not that what I just said was good or any sort of romantic gesture but he did truly love Cynthia for a time
I read Pete's book years ago & always remembered how their endearing friendship was a lifelong caring one. Rest in Peace John & Pete.
Pete Shotton seems very sincere in comments about his relationship with John. I found him very articulate, intelligent and sensitive. John had a really good mate in Pete....
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His Biography about his childhood best friend John Lennon was very insightful personal and intriguing, a must read for any J Lennon fans.
I can tell, even from these interviews that Pete was very honest & also consciously cautious about talking about his relationship with John. I admire that.
Wow - what a well spoken person.
You can feel the love he had for that man. If you have one friend like that in the end you have done alright.
fantastic interview I'm so happy that john kept in touch with his real friends it says a lot about john!!!
Though in Shotton's book "John Lennon: In My Life" I think he mentions that he lost contact of John, as well as many others who used to be close to him, when he moved to America.
His books amazing,great read,bought it on hols in america for 50c, didn't realise what I was buying I just liked the poster in the middle of it,turned out to be the best Beatles book if read,great insight from what appears to be a true gentleman.
Another great part of Peter's book is when he talks about John writing the song "In My Life". He mentions the line about "for people and things that have gone before/I know I'll often stop and think about them" and John mentioned Stuart Sutcliffe. He also told Pete "You know I love you, too, Pete, but I really miss Stuart." If you go back through the history of The Beatles, even after his death there are references to Stuart Sutcliffe. He shows up on the "Sgt. Pepper" album and again on the "Anthology" album. And, no doubt, he is one of those people referenced in the lyrics of "In My Life". John never forgot about Stuart and I think it could be argued that as close as he was to Paul McCartney that Stuart Sutcliffe probably was the best friend he ever had.
***** I think that Stuart was like a big brother to him and a mentor. In many ways I think that Stuart was the guy that John wanted to be.
+NotTheBachelor So, what was the reference to Stuart in the song "In My Life"?
No one was more close to John than Paul FACT.
+terranova22 Those are your gay ideas!
Baobabs -- well look who knows so much. You can't even tell the difference between someone who is making an assertion vs someone asking a question. Duhh
I owned and read that book The Beatles, Lennon, and Me by Pete Shotton. I sure do wish I still owned a copy of that book. That was the genesis of my 15 year study of the Beatles and their members. ❤
VERY intelligent man. Pete Shotton a lovely friend for life.
Pete seems like such a great guy. I read his book way back in the mid 80s when I was becoming an obsessive Beatles fan. It was quite the eye opener and remains one of the best books about them and John in particular. It's been used as a source for many of the books to come since including that hatchet job of Goldman.
He seems like a thoroughly decent bloke
Pete actually answered my email to him a few yrs before he died when I asked him a few questions about the day they met Paul McCartney at the church Fete...(he didn't quite remember) I can't remember how I got his email but he was very gracious to answer. John was good to Pete and set him up in a grocery business that carried him for decades.
Wow, Pete turned out to be a handsome fella! i like the way he speaks of John and the band, his fondness for him!!
This is so fascinating. I'm so glad Pete did this interview. Thank you Pete.
hey Mike, thank you so much for that wonderful post. I had never seen it before. love to you. cheers!
john told him to cash in early on the beatles fame...interesting..shows what a great guy (even tho he had bad streaks) he was...he wanted his friend to do well too...i believe he bought him a grocery store too..
Thanks fer posting this gem of memories of John by his friend Pete.
Yes people I bought him a Grocery store / supermarket... he deserved it I helped out a lot of friends .... he is great.
When they became famous and wealthy , John and George bought a supermarket for Pete shotton to run. They loved him. He's sincere.
I remember hearing the Beatles a month befor Ed Sullivan.I couldn’t wait till that Sunday night when they came on..What a time.
Really enjoyed reading Pete's book and recommend it
-read it too, Pete was maybe the only person who said to John and to Yoko "fuck off" and "fuck you", and still be John"s very close friend...that"s because they were allready in childhood doing like everything together.
Out of all the books I've read about John, Pete's leaves me with the impression that it's the most honest.
You need to read John by Cynthia Lennon. She told the truth about John Lennon.
Shout ..this book which I haven't read and Pete Bests book are a great Pre-qual to a good 4 day stay in Liverpool.
Visiting those places in the books is quite worth doing. We first went in 1991 and then another time after then last time around 2010.
Taking notes before hand and seeking out those places..the one place we regret to have not visited is Pete Bests house where they played
in the Club (Casbah)..while there a visit to some Historic sites is good and the Walker Art Museum & the Lady Lever.
I played guitar with John Lennon round at Pete Shottons house when we were at school together
Really?
Very nice learning the truth about john and Yoko! She was his soulmate.
I think Pete was an anchor for John, it's all in his song Help.
It was already out of print by the time I first read it. I had the good fotune of finding a copy at Beatle Fest 1992 (don't think they're still doing that). There was a small stack of copies on a table in the far corner of the flea market portion. They were being sold for $5 each. I was a virtually broke 16-year-old, but I still would have paid far more than that.
Yeah, it's a great book, a story of a lifelong deep friendship. "In My Life" is the title, but it's been out of print for ages.
I like the interviewer: "...they did some straaaange things together." - Yeah, like 'Give Peace A Chance' was strange. Yeah. Right.
Great insight about why he liked Yoko so much...
Very articulate good man.
@fantorjhs The title of the book is "In My Life".
I had always heard Pete describe as one of Lennon's best friends so I was really surprised at how negative his book was towards John. Pete also claims to have written some of the lyrics to Eleanor Rigby (he actually claims his contribution to the song was more than Lennons)
It's Paul's song so that's bullshit
You do understand that Derek Taylor wrote the beginning lyrics to happiness is a warm gun?
Oh and Mal Evans wrote fixing a hole.
Hmm...I wasn't aware pete has a book out. Why did John take drugs? To search for different perspectives in his thinking/feelings/creativity. What did Yoko have? A similar intellect. In John's eyes she was his Japanese "princess".
i have a copy of this book and its GREAT
Do yourself a favour and get this guys book !! Amazing read
Pete Shotton: the inspiration for Blondie!
Well said by Mr Shotton. Nobody has been able to explain Johns world so completely. Just a creative guy looking for an outlet to plug into, for the world he agreed with Yoko Ono.
RIP Pete Shotton
I first read the book in 1990 and have read it a few times since. I never found it to be the least bit negative. Can you elaborate a bit?
The crazy antics of John and Yoko were really just conceptual art. No one would have much noticed if it was just two conceptual artists doing it.
It sounds like he was a true friend of Johns......
Yoko Ono didn't break up The Beatles. The Beatles broke up The Beatles. It was a gradual split from within that slowly but surely was happening and you can trace the roots of it as far back as 1966/1967. They could have split up after "Revolver" and it would have been an amicable one, but they felt like there was still music left to do and so they did "Sgt. Pepper" yet George Harrison really didn't have his heart in it and he admitted that. After Brian's death they probably should have taken some time off, but they plunged headfirst into "Magical Mystery Tour" which was largely Paul's brainchild and the other three were more or less sidemen to Paul which became an increasing accusation over the next couple of years with The Beatles. I think that Paul gets unfairly blamed for the failure of "Magical Mystery Tour" because they were all involved with it, but he was pretty much in charge and the "de facto" director of the film. After that, Paul more or less became the de facto manager and I don't say that in a negative light because I don't think it was his intention. He just happened to be the most gung-ho in The Beatles about doing Beatles projects while the other three by that time were beginning to feel like it was time to put The Beatles to bed. And by the time "Abbey Road" was finished, both John and George were all but gone from the group. I think both of them saw it as the "swan song" for The Beatles and they were ready to move on. Paul wasn't. And I don't think Ringo was quite ready to move on either, but he was tired of the B.S. and the stress of the band. In hindsight, they probably should have taken a year or two off to do solo albums and then come back to do another Beatles album. But back then, when you were in a band and you suddenly decided to go solo, that usually meant the band was breaking up or you were leaving the group.
Magical Mystery Tour was Paul's way of keeping the Beatles moving forward with creative focus right after Brian Epstein's death.
The irony here is that Paul, John, and George had enough creative ideas for at least 4 more albums, but they weren't able to sit down and have some give and take vision sharing.
NotTheBachelor Had it not been for Yoko, they'd have recorded again together. Maybe even toured again, eventually, as the Stones did after 3 years's pause. I've been reading quite a bit of bios about them and it's quite clear. In fact, during the "Lost Weekend" they had started to hang out again. But once Yoko regained control of John, she pulled up the bridge and that was that.
softclay4thought Yeah, during the las period, besides overlooking some of George's best stuff, they also scrapped John's "Jealous Guy" and "Imagine"! [Source: The Magical Mystery Tours: Tom Bramwell (2004)]
Abby road was their desire to end on a high note after the white album recording fiasco. They returned to producer George Martin like the "old days"
Wow, this is a blast from the past. I lived in Quarry Street, not far from Mrs Shotton's grocery store. These guys were little ankle biters then. I was a Senior at John's school. Pete made a lot of money from a Supermarket chain he founded. (Fatty Arbuckles?) I don't know if John helped out with the cash. Last time I saw him was in Paphos, in 2007, judging a Karaoke contest. Poor guy was riddled with arthritis.
Isn't it "The Beatles Lennon and Me - the intimate insider's book" by Pete Shotton & Nicholas Schaffner?
Yes and I bought it back in late 1984. It started my 15 year education and love for anything Beatles.
A very articulate handsome fellow and probably a great draw to men and women.
It wasn’t a normal existence for Julian as he pointed out himself when he got old enough to speak for himself. Julian was persecuted for being John’s son.
Didn't John buy Peter Shotton a grocery store?
Yes the grocery store was on Hayling Island Hampshire Uk near the seafront.
He bought him a supermarket in Hayling Island
he is my great uncle
Pictures of you and him together please?
Was Peter also pals with Stuart Sutcliffe?
The day Yoko kicks the bucket is when we'll find out a lot of things.
Pam H The Truth will be backed up how nasty & evil of a person she was. She will pay a lot of people off to keep quite about her so a lot of the Truth will not be told. It's so SAD a person like that has CONTROL OF ALL THAT MONEY. She will PAY people so people say good thing about her.
Some people have a pathological hatred for Yoko. Could she be annoying, assertive, pushy, manipulative, controlling at times? Maybe so, but who isn't at times? She didn't "know her place" and keep quiet like a good little wifey from the 60s, and people resented her for that. As if the object of their admiration (John Lennon) wouldn't have enough brains to know what he wanted in life, and who he wanted to love and spend his life with.
terranova22 She can take her secret lovers, 'play partners' and dress up like Hitler all she wants.
why doesn't everybody leave Yoko alone she's an older woman now and I'm probably sure that she's got Troubles of her own and all this hatred is not good for anybody .. they both loved each other and that's all that matters if you ever cared about John you would not attack the love of his life
A real shame the interviewer hasn't done any research
Why does Shotton not have a scouse accent like John? They grew up in the same environment.
+R Alexander Stevens John didn't have a scouse accent, he put it on! John spoke like Pete Shotton.
You knew John Lennon personally?
That is a scouse accent!
Pete wanted to be a policeman in his younger years. The field where he practiced with his police dogs, was behind Paul McCartney's home in Forthlin Road. When you listen carefully to Pete speaking, there still is a little scouse accent. But Pet never became a policeman, but stayed a good friend to John. John made it possible for Pete to open up a supermarket in the 60ties.
His accent is that of a well-educated Liverpudlian.Its the way people speak where he grew up.
This is interesting.
Lots of boring questions that she could have asked anyone connected with John. She should have asked him more of the questions that Pete could have answered from his own unique perspective and view having been John’s real friend.
@guruuDev IT IS REFRESHING ISNT IT, WHEN SOMEONE ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW TO SPEAK..
Could you repeat that?
Yoko was similar to John's Aunty Mimi, strong and overpowering. I think that's what he subconsciously needed in his life but I believe he and Yoko treated Cynthia and Julian very badly. After John died Yoko denied Julian his inheritance for almost 16 years, what kind of a woman is that?
You are wrong
The disgusting Cynthia was the 1 who treated John horribly
When they were still married she cheated on him various times.
Then, when John found happiness in Yoko, that Cynthia chick started putting crap in Julian‘s head
You should also know that when John went to heaven Cynthia wanted all of John’s money
She basically wanted to leave Yoko and Sean with nothing
There’s a lot more that I could say but I will end this with something very important that nobody talks about and it is the fact that the disgusting Cynthia sold lots of John’s personal items in an auction
This auction took place in London in the year 1991
When she was asked why she was selling those items she said that she wanted to get rid of all the deadwood
Then, when asked what she was going to do with the money, she said that it was going to give her back, her security, which, in her words she lost when she was gobbled up by his legend
I should also add that while John was still here on earth, he would send money to Julian
Sadly, Cynthia would use all that money for all the men that she slept with, and then she would lie to Julian, telling him that his father didn’t care for him
Cynthia Powell was a horrible woman, and I wish that John would have never met her
However, I am thankful that he found a lovely woman, who gave him love and happiness, and that woman is Yoko Ono Lennon
A narcissist.
YOKO DID IT
I'm surprised he doesn't have a Liverpool accent.
He does!
Yep.
He told you any interesting stories?
Peter was a great guy and had a business brain. He made money for Lennon and paid him back. Ono never liked him though. He phoned John at The Dakota and he heard a lot of shouting and arguing in the background saying "he is not coming over". The home truth about Lennon is that outside him song writing everything he did was questionable. People want him to be this-that-and-the-other, but in reality he was quite rude and foul mouthed. Everyone has a story about how bad he could be on this bad days. What people don't get is that LSD split the music world, some people hated it some loved it. Lennon never liked being around people who didn't drug like him. Cynthia said he turned in to a zombie with it all. He was lucky he didn't go the way of Syd Barrett or Peter Green.
SirPeter6464 m
And you know all this because ... right.
@@redletter2008 Wow all these experts on someone they never knew and never will.
That awful American interviewer woman doesn't like Yoko muchly.
Yoko told Julian he could have one of John's guitars after his death. When Julian told her which one he wanted, she didn't let him have it. She also didn't encourage John to support him financially. Yeah, really nice person wasn't she?
Yoko ruined the beatles.
@@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488no she didn’t it was the death of Brian Epstein and then John and George not wanting to be limited to the Beatles as well as the hiring of Allen Klein that broke up the band with the breaking point being John leaving
Yoko was johns replacement mommy.
Right, spot on
Oh, that is absolutely correct!! He did call her “Mother” He needed someone to take care of the business end like Brian Epstein did for the Beatles.
As Paul McCartney has said
“John liked strong women”
So it wasn’t just his mother but his Aunt Mimi as well
And as Paul basically said, John’s first wife wasn’t a “strong woman”
he looks so different now
Mome Momo He would do, he’s older.
4:44 Johnny caught yellow fever . Though she wouldn't be interested if he didn't have the fame and especially the money
Thanks go out to the racist twat section - nice work.
John got her girlfriend Cynthia pregnant. That’s why they got married. Not for love.
@@LLucky1944 yes it is.
John did love Cynthia and really relied on her after his mother died
He was very angry when he thought that she had a thing for Stu Sutcliffe that he hit her and after they broke up he was so upset with himself and desperate to be back with her
Not that what I just said was good or any sort of romantic gesture but he did truly love Cynthia for a time
What attracted John to Yoko initially was she did not know he was a Beatle.
Never bought that story
@@LLucky1944 Was Yoko bullshitting when she stated that in an interview when asked about first meeting John?
The host of this show is living proof that we had some seriously uptight and judgmental people around in the 80's