Cynthia never fails to amaze me. She has so much dignity and is so soft spoken and wonderful. She appears to be one of the most non-judgmental and classy people I have ever seen.
I love her so much and if you read her book, "John", when their marriage was happy it was the sweetest thing ever and it just breaks my heart what happened with Yoko. It was horrible, the way she was treated. But she is still an amazing woman and she's so devoted to her son, in a way John never was even when he was alive.
I'm so glad that you feel compelled to be so involved in the lives of three complete strangers you really know nothing about. I'm quite sure that Pete Best doesn't mind trading on the association that made her of public interest to begin with. I'm also fairly sure that John and Yoko regretted ever meeting each other and having a son together, too
@sexobscura And likewise, I'm "glad" you felt compelled to make a condescending remark on a random RU-vid comment from 10 years ago. I hope you find something more fulfilling to occupy your mind!
3:46 pm. 1/28/2022 my first time , ever watching anything on Mrs. Cynthia Lennon. What a gem of a person she was...your loss John. What a mistake letting her go really.
cynthia stuck with john from when he literally had to beg for gigs at seedy night clubs until he became an international phenomenon. i cant believe he left this loving woman on such terrible terms for yoko ono and threw her under the bus. read "John" by Cynthia Lennon if you want to know more about her role in his life...verry interesting book
Cynthia said that thier problems begin when John started doing drugs.Because Cynthia wouldnt do them with him they couldnt communicate with each other or John quit talking to her.
that's no doubt the reason John picked up on Yoko. She was more than willing to do all those drugs, but she brought in heroin for a nightcap! All those drugs made John easy to manipulate, for sure.
John was doing drugs way before he met Yoko, during the height of his Beatles career. It was well documented Cynthia regularly smoked cannabis. Everyone was high on something during the 60's. You may all think Cynthia is some kind of biblical angel, but she sold her story for money. Private intimate details of their relationship. Not to mention, her bitter divorce settlement and demanding more money. John was no saint, but Cynthia did benefit financially right after his death. The way I see it, John liked writing music, voicing his political opinions and performing on stage, once the lights were turned off, he preferred to keep himself to himself. Whereas, Cynthia preferred the red carpet, the celebrity lifestyle, parties and mixing with other celebs, which John wasn't very keen on. One of the reasons they drifted apart.
@@Aerojet01 o come on everybody i dont belive you decent people not and onestly i dont now why the people tasted lsd thats one of the worst experiences and fellings and toxic things onestly i wil be very scary if someone taste marihuana and the effecs they cause they scary tasted any drugs
Sad that that Evil person had to keep John on drugs for Control. What kind of person keeps John family & his son from John so called death celebration she had to have spot light on her. If Cynthia would of come with Julian the Evil person said Julian could not come to NY.
How gentle and soft spoken is she....I hate that John didn't stay with her. She could have probably helped John through his issues more so than Yoko ever could. She likely would have had the patience with him during that time that he needed. You can she truly was in love with him.
@@kathleenbialas4882 oh trust me if you've read about John and Cynthia's relationship you'd know there were no problems with their sex life.... They were at it like rabbits
Cyn is so lovely and soft-spoken. (Totally opposite from his second, witchy wife.) If only John remained in England w/Cyn, he'd be here today. I wish there were more interviews with her. Cyn's books were a good read, especially the last, 'John.' Very informative.
To understand why Lennon fell for Yoko, you have to understand the relationship of Stuart Sutcliffe & Astrid Kircher which, for John, constituted an ideal love. Stuart & Astrid were a pair of avante-garde artists who became soul mates. While Cynthia may have thought of herself as an artist, she wasn't in the same league with Astrid or Yoko. Just as Stuart abandoned The Beatles for life & love with Astrid, so John would attempt to duplicate him. But did he succeed?
i doubt there's a day goes by when Cyn doesn't think about John, she loved him when he a was nobody AND when he was one of the biggest musician's in the world! John was daft to leave her and Julian the way he did, that's one thing i'll never understand about John :(
Yoko was Japanese, and they could still have lived in the UK. The met in the UK, so she had the right to live here. Anyway George Harrison and Paul and Ringo ALL married American women!, and continued to live in England!!!!
That's a useless, potentially offensive, comment. Noone can forecast whether someone would still be alive, least of all any famous person. I can't actually imagine such a genius as John getting much more out of life for much longer as he'd already 'done it all' in cultural terms, mostly. He paved the way for David Bowie. It was an awful murder yet I strangely can't imagine it not happening as I never knew a mid 1980s, let alone a 1990s John Lennon. I think he'd regard the world as becoming an increasingly less serious circus and I can't foresee a particularly happy rest of life, just as I couldn't for Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain.Once such a legend, the rest of your life is as a performing shadow, with the real human being feeling increasingly like a stranger in the cultural landscape they helped make. They already lived the life of hundreds of people in a short space of time.
Terry Wogan's chat show went out Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights on BBC1 at 19.00. If Lennon had lived and if he'd returned to the UK in the early eighties as he might well have done then it's this programme where I think he might have appeared. I suspect that there might have been some rumours in the press and a few no shows but finally his arrival at Heathrow might have been chaotically covered in the lunchtime news. When Andy Peebles interviewed him in 1980 he reported that one of Lennon's first questions had been ''How's Bernie?'', ie Bernie Andrews, BBC producer, so it's conceivable that Lennon would have been prepared to appear, possibly at short notice that night, especially since the beeb would have been desperate to get him. If Lennon had been in the right mood then it could have been a joyous affair. Assuming a guitar was available then John might have been prepared to play, solo, in some fashion and we've seen before that those off the cuff performances are often the best. So what do you think? He's obviously going to want to promote his latest material but there's an opening for something from the past: In My Life? I Want To Hold Your Hand? The programme was only half an hour long and followed by the then new Eastenders soap but would the Corporation just let him carry on if it was good.
I don't think she ever stopped loving him. If I remember correctly she still retained the surname of Lennon after her first couple marriages. Of course this may have been because she wanted to keep the same surname as her son, but truly I think it was because she still loved john.
John loved Yoko with all his heart & soul just as he loved Cynthia, if you hate Yoko you hate John, he said that many times. And for anyone to say she was "hotter" is just a matter of opinion and looks more like racism than personal preference. That said I found Cynthia's book "John" an amazing story.
It wasn't stable, and Yoko elaborated on that. It wasn't as much as an average person, but he still saw her many times. It wasn't luck. It was the fact that John was a drug addict, and Cynthia didn't want to go there with him.
@2dam6y4u THANK YOU!!!! People need to respect the decisions that John made, bith professionally and personally. It's good to have sane people like you to agree with.
John & Cynthia met at art school in Liverpool and she helped him with his art exams (because he had done no work!). She became pregnant and they got married. He had no money when they met, so she wasn't a gold digger and never has been. He became a mega-star, met somebody else and moved on, sad though that was. That's about it folks.
@stoob1969 lolololol I was waiting to hear some story of John stopping off for a cuppa or something and hiding behind the tea urn from rabid fans. You made something very ordinary very funny. Thanks.
Have just finished listening to audio tapes on RU-vid of excerpts from Cynthia's book "John"... go listen peeps... phew - eye-opening!!!! An absolutely gentle...nothing but sweet... nastiness is relegated to the likes of Joko & Aunt Mimi....now I realize these two nasties were the dismantling of John... his sister Julia gives her rendition of it all too...GO & LISTEN FOLKS...PHEW!!!
i wonder if she gets sad when people call her Cynthia Lennon... she is such a kind person and i loke john and cynthia more then john and yoko, i think he should have stayed with her.
@viceisthename OK, the first part of your comment doesn't make grammatical sense, so I'm not sure what you're on about there. Also, I can directly quote John in saying that he did not love Cynthia. I'd be interested to know how you are sure that Yoko did not love John...
@IwillKillYourCereal ah, John was responsible for his own actions, for deciding on taking drugs and taking a mistress. No one but John is really to blame for his sad and destructive choices. I do not approve of Yoko pursuing a married man, but she holds no responsiblity for his decisions. That's hard for people who admire John to accept.
He abandoned a straight-laced, buttoned down woman to be with his soulmate who was every bit as avant-garde and wacky as he was. Yoko was Johns soulmate and if you don't understand that you don't understand John.
Wogan lacked some tact in his first comments...but I would take it as a compliment if someone told me I still looked the same after what, 20 some years? and she did look great!!
From this and many more interviews i've come to the conclusion that there is one major difference between Cynthia and Yoko. Cynthia never and still doesn't want fame.
What kind of artist was Yoko. Like are you saying he preferred her because she sang or she was a painter or she was an activist? What kind of artist did he prefer. I have been trying to figure out why this guy was so under her spell for a long time. Are there any articles on this.
He never said that. Never. It's not exactly the same guy. He was different. People change as always. He was very different, and all his friends, including the Beatles got a taste of that. He did cheat on her. He cheated on Yoko too. He was young with Cynthia, and one of the most famous young men in the world, no shit he's going to cheat on her. George cheated on Pattie and Olivia. Paul cheated on Jane. Ringo cheated on Maureen. It doesn't matter which way you spin it, it's all the same.
It wasn't sisterly love. No wonder she wrote about her side of the story. Many people believe John didn't give a shit about her. They were perfect for each other. He wasn't stable, so he needed someone who was to help him out. With Yoko, she dragged him down. They went into a unhealthy addiction and cut off everyone. He kept no real friends with her. Cynthia had a much better impact and they loved each other very much. Not just Cyn who said this, but people around them, and John too.
you have to wonder what kind of man John really was that he chose to not be a father to his 1st son, not to mention that Yoko missed no opportunity to shit on Julian's head after John's left. I heard Julian in a Howard Stern interview 1000 years ago and you could feel his grief. I get not wanting to be in relationship with your ex wife, but your son? smh...
I feel really sorry for Cynthia, John got her pregnant (not intending to start a family) then hastily married her. But his heart was not truly for her, as even he admitted he beat her and what not. John had a strong preference for Asian women (nothing wrong with that) and when he found Yoko he felt secure. Even during the lost weekend John choose not to reconnect with Cynthia but May Peng. Now don't get me wrong I admire John as a musician and intellectual but his heart was not with Cynthia.
