Well, let’s say that Macca doesn’t make the same claim for his solo songs as he does for The Beatles’, shall we? I’ll get to that later. I make it – on my own terms – that there are (just) seventeen songs that potentially constitute finger pointers (well, you know what I mean). I mean, yeah, they could be a bit ruthless, yeah George Harrison’s first and last words were probably more like a sound, that sound being, ‘meh,’ but bastards? Maybe.īearing in mind that Macca said that most of their records were all about love (man), the implication is that there were exceptions. As far as being bastards goes, I don’t know really. To be fair, and it’s not difficult to be fair to The Fabs – I don’t have a favourite really – Macca’s right about most of their songs being all about peace, love and understanding.

That’ll be the other side of the coin then.īearing in mind, of course, that John and Paul both had agendas that they stick – or stuck – to religiously: Macca’s always pushing the peace and love thing and John couldn’t help but tell the world how edgy they all were.

And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.” “You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. It wasn’t really until Help! that they started writing songs about other things. The earlier stuff was primarily ‘I love you, you love me’ stuff. Originally published as part of her 1978 autobiography ‘A Twist of Lennon’, these pen and ink humorous creations illustrate memories Cynthia shared with John Lennon and The Beatles.“I’m really glad that most of our songs were about love, peace and understanding.”Ĭredit where it’s due: when I think about nasty, finger pointing songs, The Beatles aren’t the first band that comes to mind. She stayed at home bringing up Julian while the Fab Four toured the world and topped the charts. The couple were married on 23 August 1962 at the Mount Pleasant register office in Liverpool.Īt the height of The Beatles' early success she was, at the insistence of the band's management, kept in the background so their legions of female fans were not aware of her existence. When performing in Hamburg with The Beatles, Cynthia would rent John’s bedroom from his aunt Mimi. The couple married just before Beatlemania transformed her husband into one of the most famous men in the world.

She later enrolled at the Liverpool College of Art where, in calligraphy class she met John Lennon. After winning a drawing competition in the Liverpool Echo newspaper at age 11, Cynthia’s confidence in her artistic talent grew and she joined the Junior Art School.

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