Part of me, that pesky part that wants to correct the grammar in Facebook posts, persisted in commenting on sentence fragments, run-on sentences, run-on sentence fragments. What this book did, above all, was let me 'see' Cynthia Lennon and what a lovely person she was! The book is written very informally, a breezy chat of a book. To me she was always the most gracious, spiritual and stoic person in the entire Lennon clan and it was that book that made me a HUGE Cynthia fan, more so than Julian or John. I was always amazed at the grace with which Cynthia did not write with hatred or anger towards John or Yoko. It is one of my treasures and is kept in a place of honor in my book collection. It was the most expensive book I ever bought because I bought it out of print in 1995, but it was well worth it to me. I have owned A Twist of Lennon for many years now. We went to the library (our internet then) and looked up Cynthia Lennon and low and behold there was a book not just about her, but that she had written There was little about her in the few books that we had, but I knew her name.
well because she was jealous with her John crush. I wanted to know more about the person who shaped Julian into the person he is. I turned my best friend into a Beatles fan and she was as hungry as I was to learn. I watched A Hard Day’s Night and then because little to no reading material was available about Julian, I got reading materials about John. “Yes, Julian Lennon,” I relied, “I love this song.”Įven my mother, who never liked The Beatles turned and said, “You don’t know who The Beatles are?”īecause of Julian I had learned the name of the greatest band the world ever knew. But one day in the car I won the music war with my brother and I had dad rewind the tape and turn up the car radio to hear Valotte again loud enough that I could sing to it.
My father was a musician and had talked about this band from England that had changed music and ruined his career (they played surfer rock) and this concert in DC and blah blah blah,īut I didn’t know who they were I couldn’t remember their name.
Then I was allowed to buy the tape and I loved that too. I felt a sadness and the heart behind that song and I put it on a mix tape, it was the 80’s after all, and I played it over and over. It wasn’t bubble gum pop, it wasn’t the new boy band. I was 9 years old when I heard the 1st song that touched me.
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