Biographer of John Lennon’s first wife: he was too tough for her – BBC News

April 1 learned about the death of his first wife of musician John Lennon. Cynthia Lennon, nee Powell, was married to the famous “Beatle” from 1962 to 1968. In this marriage was born their son Julian. However, few people knew that Cynthia had to endure during those six years. The fact that Lennon had concealed his wife of all, and even the fans do not know about its existence.

Cynthia Lennon died in Majorca at age 75 after a long battle with cancer. A tribute to her memory gave former musician The Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, as well as the second wife Yoko Ono Lennon. The latter said: “I am very saddened by the death of Cynthia. She was a wonderful person and a wonderful mother to Julian”.

Cynthia met her future husband in college in Liverpool in 1957. They were married even before Beatlemania turned her husband out of the ordinary musician in the world celebrity. Friends have repeatedly reported Cynthia that her husband had an affair, but she ignored this information, until he found Lennon and Yoko Ono together. Returning from a trip, she found her husband’s house with another woman, dressed in her bathrobe.

Lennon did not want to participate in high-profile divorce proceedings. He paid Cynthia 100,000 pounds and allowed to issue custody of her son. At the same time, Paul McCartney wrote the song Hey, Jude, to comfort John Lennon’s son Julian during his parents’ divorce.

Cynthia in 1970, married to an Italian, three years later divorced him. In 1976, she again tried to organize family life and married to a British engineer, but later divorced him.

According to Daily Mail, in the years of his marriage to Cynthia Lennon could only watch the progress on the part of the husband. She had to hide in the shadows, as in those days rock star followed an unwritten rule – not to marry in order to save their way of “teen idol”. Cynthia never complained about it, at least, did not do it in public.

Lennon biographer Ray Connolly rasskazaal: “John I really liked, but I loved and Cynthia too. It seemed that John treats her very bad and was unnecessarily cruel to her. When their marriage broke up, John denied that the general was once in love with her, although his letter says to the contrary. ” According to biographer, Lennon argued that never would have married Cynthia if she was not pregnant.

Cynthia itself only after many years admitted: “It was cruel, inhuman. The question should be: what was the I marry him? No. He was not the best husband. Although neither was the worst. ” Cynthia also recalled that Lennon married after the death of his father. “If my father were alive, he would be on the threshold of even John would not let” – somehow she said.