Acknowledgments

John

CYNTHIA LENNON

CROWN PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

"Ballad of John and Yoko": Copyright © 1969 by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

"She Loves You": Copyright © 1963 by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

The passage on pages 272-74: Copyright © 2005 by Justin Clayton.

All photographs courtesy the author with the exception of the following. © Apple Corps/Camera Press/Retna Ltd.: page 3; Associate Newspapers: Julian, April 1963; Asel Springer Verlag: May Pang and Cynthia; Bob Whitaker/Camera Press: John and Cynthia in Kenwood Garden; Corbis: vigil for John; Featureflash: Julian and Cynthia with platinum disc; Manchester Daily Mail: Cynthia interviewing Julian; Mirrorpix: John, Yoko, Kyoko, and Julian; Popperfoto: John and Cynthia on plane; Redferns: the Beatles in Hamburg and the Cavern (K & К Ulf Kruger OHG), John in Hamburg (Astrid Kirchherr), Astrid and Stuart (Jurgen Vollmer), Beatles at premiere, John and Yoko bed-in (S & G Press Agency); Star File Photos: Yoko, Sean, Julian, and Cynthia; Ronald Traeger: Beatles wives, 1966; Geoffrey Wilkinson: Phyl and Cynthia, 1999.

Copyright © 2005 by Cynthia Lennon

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the

Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, a division of Hodder Headline, in 2005.

CROWN is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 0-307-33855-X

Printed in the United States of America

Design by Lauren Dong

10 987 6543 21

First American Edition

For my son, Julian, and for Johns sisters, Julia andjacqui,

All three of whom have had to cope with the pain that being

Part of the Lennon legend imposed

And for my husband, Noel, with love and thanks

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my family, my parents, Charles and Lilian Powell, and brothers, Tony and Charles, for giving me the love and grounding that helped me survive the roller-coaster ride my life has turned out to be.

Also to my son, Julian, my best friend and the love of my life, who has never failed to support me in every possible way.

Heartfelt thanks to all the friends who have stood by me through thick and thin, giving me sound advice, laughter and unwavering support, especially Phyl, my soul sister.

Thanks also to Julia Baird for your memories and your friendship and to my sisters-in-law, Marjorie and Penny.

Warm thanks to my editor, Caro Handley, for holding my hand through every step of the joy and the pain of writing this book—I couldn't have done it without you.

Also to everyone at Hodder and Stoughton, especially Rowena Webb, Briar Silich and Kerry Hood, for guiding me so smoothly, with humor and generosity, through what could have been a rocky passage.

Grateful thanks to John Cousins, my business manager and friend, for planting the seed of the book and whose advice and encouragement has been invaluable. Also to Celia Quantrill, for so much superb research.

Finally, love and special thanks to Noel, my husband, whose constant love and support has been with me through my darkest moments and greatest joys.

Thank you all for encircling my life.

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