An interview by the legendary Granada presenter Anthony Wilson with Cynthia Lennon. Filmed at her home in the Lake District - around the time of Julian Lennon's Valotte album's release.
Such a classy, beautiful, lovely woman. John's biggest mistake was leaving Cynthia. She truly loved him and saw John for what he was not for his fame and money
Cynthia always held herself with such dignity & grace. Beautiful and thoughtful. It's so heartwrenching at times to listen to the pain and heartache in her voice. The depth of sorrow she and Julian experienced with the death of John is immeasurable.💔
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to each his own. i thought yoko was more beautiful and exotic. cynthia was beautiful too, but she was not as interesting as yoko, or as educated or intellectual or dynamic or as original. her art work was not really thought provoking but yoko's was always. i get john's choice.
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I can see what John saw in her, she's great! Yes I agree this lady has a better aura tha Yoko. The problem with becoming famous and rich is it attracts the wrong people!
If they ever make a movie based on her book, I think Bryony Hannah should portray her. She has the same sweet voice Cynthia has. Also, I absolutely love her interviews. What a beautiful woman. R.i.p. Cynthia.
Her story is undoubtedly the often understated, deeply personal “other side of the coin” of the lightning strike that was John’s life. Equal in its journey through their days together, and ultimately their days apart, never a chance for their stories to come together again.
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Her book, “John” was very insightful. It was sad, melancholy. Cynthia is amazing as a person. She was a woman in love with a man who belonged to the world. She deserved to be bitter, the way he treated her at the end. And that open letter he wrote and had printed verbatim designed to stab her in the heart and publicly humiliate her when she gave an interview to make a little money. He didn’t have to do that to her after everything else. Yoko has made sure Julian has nothing from his father. Julian has had to buy nearly every piece of memorabilia back from auctions. She’s been so vindictive. Why? For what? Jealousy? He grew up without a father because of her.
Cynthia was a threat to Yoko because she still loved John. Yes that witch was very insecure and vindictive. Yoko's husband took their daughter and fled the country so she didn't see her all those years, Yoko made sure that John would not have a relationship with his son, what an evil bitch.
@@galepatrick1702 omg, I thought exactly the same! It’s something that’s truly stuck. Something along the lines of, if I’d known as a teenager what loving John would lead to, I would’ve turned right away
I'm glad that Cynthia is so down to earth and like us fan of John Lennon we will always miss him too. She did a beautiful job on raising Julian. May she Rest in Peace 🌹 ❤
It was a different time. People didn't just live together, it was expected you'd marry. I remember an interview with Elizabeth Taylor where she said that she couldn't just date, she had to marry - in those days, especially for women, that's how it was. She's so lovely and intelligent and she's obviously very emotionally intelligent. I can see how people would really like her.
Biggest mistake John made was leaving this wonderful woman for the Japanese golddigger...he may well be still alive if he remained with Cynthia...RIP John and Cynthia.
I remember when this happened! Everyone couldn’t believe he left her for and wound up yoko!! Everyone thought he fried his brain on drugs! Cynthia was beautiful!
What a stunningly beautuful, elegant, classy and intelligent woman she was. Cynthia was far better than Yoko in every way and infinitely more attractive and sexier, too. R.I.P Cynthia Lennon.
And Cynthia would know the man better than anyone else - fascinating interview with the wife of one of the great musical giants of the 20th century. Thanks for uploading.
if she didnt want to fight fine , but she should have hired good lawyer and let them fight and she shouldve gotten her fair share of the pie for her and her son
In a sense that's what I respect about her the most. She wasn't in it for the money. She was there for love,support, family. I have never seen her speak ill of John as she understood he himself was lost and a drug addict who had no control over himself. No wonder hey Jude mattered so much to them since they had been kicked out of the beatles family and Paul was the only friend who visited and kinda cared. It's beautiful tragic lesson to us
If you enjoyed this then you should read Cynthia's book "John." She wrote about her days with JL, Julian, and her life post-divorce. The last paragraph really hits you. It's a great read.
I totally agree; I read the book and it’s very insightful. You come away with an understanding of how she felt being a Beatle wife and the humiliation of John leaving her and Julian behind for yoko.
@@judymarasco4231 Yep, John later admitted he'd been pretty insensitive to a lot of people in his youth. It's a great book and Cynthia seemed very kind. A play about her life has also been done.
@@bonifaciobonifacia8679 Thanks for your reply to an old comment. To summarise the last paragraph of "John" (by memory) Cynthia said if she could go back in time and not meet JL at all, after all they'd been through, she would. For her it just wasn't worth it. That was the gist of it. It was a hard hitting final paragraph to a great book and if you find a copy I recommend you grab it.
@@drewsale7288 thanks for the reply, how kind of you. Cynthia being in that position, coudnt be more right. She might be thinking of her son julian, growing up with an absentee father. Until now I guess julian feel the effect. He never married.
I just somehow came across Cynthia’s story and so glad I did. What a beautiful soul she was. I had no idea she had passed away. So humble, so well spoken, so down to earth and just so brilliant. Beautiful inside and out. And she could have been bitter but she wasn’t. What a lady. Edit: I just bought her book “John” and can’t stop reading it.
She's the very reason why Julian grew into a humble, grounded and giving man. Julian took the loss of his mum very hard. She died of cancer. It was a short battle. None of us knew she was ill her passing was announced 8 years ago on April 1st (April fools day), just a week shy of Julian's birthday. She's an amazing person. I also see the same sadness in her that I see in Julian because of John. I wish things were different. I wish John didn't drift away from her because he wanted a drug buddy (Yoko) and had a chance at healing his absentee relationship with Julian. I know Cyn wanted that badly for her son. It never was meant to be. Both John's kids got robbed of their father. Julian was robbed three times: Beatlemania, Yoko and Chapman.
Cynthia could have fought for her love ,but she did something bigger she let John go .She was a selfless, sympathetic, and empathic lady .I accept John's relationship to Yoko because of Sean. I say as Cynthia said she is not my cup of tea as persone.😏 Cynthia did a good job raising Julian by herself 👏❤️❤️
True. Someone to tell him what to do. First it was Brian, then came Yoko and finally John Lennon didn't write songs for 5 years and moved to the US to preach peace.
@@adrianallan7382 I wonder who objected. It seems she was saying things about Yoko the first time. And then about how close and loving her marriage had been with John for the second one.
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The part where Cynthia was talking about Yoko why on Earth did the sound go out? That was the biggest thing of all that people wanted to hear. *What happened?* What kind of an interview is that when you can't hear the crucial things that Cynthia was saying?
This usually happens for copyright reasons. If they had left what was probably "The Long and Winding Road" in it, maybe this video would've been taken down.
Lovely lady. She seems grounded, honest, intelligent and contrary to popular belief, confident in herself. I think that if she would’ve been as boring as some say, she would’ve married her first boyfriend but instead she pursued her studies and dated a rebel because she recognized John’s uniqueness before anyone else. And if John dated her for nearly four years and later married her was because he did love her and also saw something special in her. Sure, he fell in love with Yoko later but that does not mean he never loved Cynthia. May she rest in peace. 💗
The way the interviewer makes derogatory sounds about her divorce, typical msm c u next tuesday. Cynthia is extremely classy and how English ladies are.
