There is so much that I have never said, so many incidents I have never spoken of and so many feelings I have never expressed: great love on one hand pain, torment and humiliation on the other. 'The time has come when I feel ready to tell the truth about John and me, our years together and the years since his death. In John, Cynthia Lennon has created a vivid portrait of the 1960s, the Beatles, and the man she never stopped loving. She tells of the breakdown of their marriage and the beginning of his relationship with Yoko Ono in more detail than has ever been disclosed before and documents the difficulties estrangement from John - and his subsequent death-brought for herself and their son, Julian. Now she candidly reveals the good and the bad, the loving and the cruel sides of John. And with the perspective only years can provide, she also tells the compelling story of her marriage to a man who was to become a music legend, a cultural hero, and a defining figure of the 20th century.Ĭynthia has seldom talked in any detail about her marriage and the painful events that followed John's tragic assassination in 1980.

In John, Cynthia recalls those times with the loving honesty of an insider, offering new and fascinating insights into the life of John Lennon and the early days of the Beatles. And Cynthia Lennon, John's first wife, was an integral part of the swirl of events that are now an indelible part of the history of rock and roll. Their 10-year relationship coincided with the start of the Beatles phenomenon-from Liverpool's dockside clubs to the dizzying worldwide fame that followed. When she was 18-years-old, a girl named Cynthia Powell met a boy named John Lennon, and they fell in love.

The extraordinary story of a man, a legend and a marriage

John by Cynthia Lennon