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Remarkably, this subterfuge was successful until the end of 1963, by which point Beatlemania was well underway across Europe.

Epstein, who was best man at the Lennons’ wedding on August 23rd, 1962, and accompanied them (uninvited) on a belated honeymoon to Paris the following month, insisted that the fans would be upset to learn of John’s marriage and their child. “We’ll have to get married.”īy this time The Beatles-without Sutcliffe, who had died in Hamburg, and Pete Best, replaced as drummer by Ringo Starr-were wildly popular in Liverpool. “There’s only one thing for it, Cyn,” he said. Though, unlike Lennon, Cynthia graduated, she failed her teaching diploma and at the same time discovered she was pregnant. She briefly rented a room from Lennon’s aunt, Mimi, who had brought him up. But he wrote to her during The Beatles’ first stint in Hamburg, and she visited during their second residency there. They both broke off other relationships, but Lennon was frequently jealous and sometimes verbally and physically abusive. They went to the pub, where Lennon ignored her until closing time, then grabbed her hand and took her to Stu Sutcliffe’s room, where they first had sex. She at first told him she was engaged, but later relented. After singing Ain’t She Sweet to her in class, he asked her out. Her father worked for the engineering firm GEC, and she had a middle-class upbringing in the suburb of Hoylake, across the River Mersey from Liverpool.Īfter winning a drawing prize in competition in the Liverpool Echo, aged 11, Cynthia enrolled in the Junior Art School, from which she went on to Liverpool College of Art, where she met Lennon in a lettering class.

None was terribly successful.Ĭynthia Lillian Powell was born on Septemin Blackpool, a seaside resort to which her mother had been evacuated in the run-up to the outbreak of the Second World War. Having to make the best of her association with Lennon also led to two memoirs, a brief foray into recording, the launch of a perfume called Woman, and a restaurant called Lennon’s (which served Rubber Sole).