Синтия Леннон

Кто-нибудь знает какова судьба Синтии Леннон? Как она сейчас живет, и как сложилась ее жизнь после развода с Джоном?

Женилась второй раз,открыла ресторан "У Леннона"в Ливерпуле,написала в соаторстве книгу.Одним словом-зарабатывает,как по сути и все друзья и родственники битлов.

Zhanna! А за чем это знать?
Ну Синтия, ну Леннон... Но не Джон же! Сколько у него женщин было. Много. Ну и что? Хотя конечно "правоверные битломаны" скажут, что "она оказывала влияние на творчество"... Леннон сам на себя оказывал влияние. А его женщины?! При чем они здесь?
Воробьёв Александр! А Вам, уважаемый не по фигу, что она ресторан открыла?

2guks
Ну, знаете, мне, например, интересен этот вопрос. И не со стороны "оказывания влияния на творчество" Джона Леннона, а в плане интереса к судьбе этой женщины. Да и Вам, уважаемый, не по фигу ли, что мне это не по фигу?

guks, я, конечно, понимаю, что Синтия Леннон - не Джон, но ведь она была не последним человеком в его жизни, особенно в самом начале их музыкальной карьеры. Хотя о ней не так много говорят, как о Линде и Йоко. Даже Джейн Эшер представляет какой-то интерес для многих, хотя она и не была женой Пола. И я сомневаюсь, что ни одна из женщин битлов, в частности Джона, не оказывала на него влияние. Йоко - наглядный пример, по-моему, с этим глупо будет спорить. В какой-то степени она влияла на него, я бы даже сказала им управляла. Но вообще вопрос, если вы его внимательно прочитали, был не о том, кто на кого и как влиял. Мне просто хотелось узнать, как сложилась жизнь Синтии. Не более того.
И я не понимаю, откуда такая агрессия? Если вам не интересно - не читайте.

Да гакс ляпнул неподумавши, можт ему на ногу наступили в трамвае,отсюда и агрессия, Жанна не обр внимания, бисер ни к чему.
А Синтия очень симпатичный человек, а её маленький дефект речи просто умиляет...
Синтия и Джулиан - хорошо
Йоко и Шон - плохо
Вот весь мой сказ

I'm trying to make Julian feel that John did love him,
even if he can't tell him any more

Cynthia Lennon tells of live with and without the murdered ex-Beatle -
and the loving pictures that she hopes will ease her son's pain.


The place was the Liverpool College Of Art, the year 1958. Cynthia Powell was 19, a "posh" girl from the Wirral in a twinset and pearls. As she entered the lecture theatre one morning, she noticed a fellow student, 18- year-old John Lennon. "I didn't like him," she recalls, 42 years later. "He was scruffy, dangerous looking and totally disruptive. He frightened the life out of me." John sat in front of Cynthia and, as they waited for the lecturer, entertained the rest of the hall with wisecracks. Cynthia noticed his hair was sticking up. At the same time, her friend Helen noticed, too, and leaned forward to brush it down. To Cynthia's amazement, she was overcome by jealousy "I thought 'How dare she?" she laughs, sitting on the terrace of her farmhouse in Normandy and gazing at the four portraits of John she recently completed as a gift for their son, Julian. "Despite myself, I had fallen in love. Until that moment I was serious, hard-working Cynthia, who wanted to be an art teacher. But from then on things were never normal again."
Within two years of their meeting, Cynthia was pregnant and married to the young tear- away. At the same time, the world was gripped by Beatlemania. From Hamburg, to Shea Stadium, to India, Cynthia was sucked into an existence beyond her wildest imaginings. "In two years I went from a bedsit in Liverpool to a mansion in Surrey with gardeners and chauffeurs and a housekeeping allowance of Ј50 a week. It was enough to blow anybody's mind," she giggles. But it could not last. Cynthia watched powerlessly as John became obsessed with drugs, fell for Yoko Ono and abandoned his family. Julian grew up hardly knowing his father, acutely aware of the lack of love between them. Then in 1980, when he was 40, John was shot dead in New York. "I was 17 when I lost my father, John was 17 when he lost his mother and Julian was 17 when he lost his father," Cynthia says softly. "He and John were just starting to talk together when some nutcase decided to knock him off."
Twenty years after his death, Cynthia still has the ash blonde hair she sported in the days when John begged her to turn herself into a Brigitte Bardot lookalike. Her huge eyes concealed behind trademark tinted lenses, her body wrapped in a baggy blue dress. At 61, she has a moving dignity and almost total lack of vanity. "Glass of wine?" she greets me at the door. "Cigarette? You know, I love living here. I have tranquility and peace - and it's also dead cheap!" Cynthia makes no bones that her life has been marked indelibly the Lennon legacy, yet for a woman caught up with one of the most extraordinary men of modern times, she is extraordinarily unaffected. After all, she could have ended up living the life of an ex-rock wife in Beverly Hills, filling her days shopping and plastic surgery. It's a thought that makes her chuckle. "I suppose I could have but even when I was living in the mansion in Weybridge, I never blew my money. Sheets and shoes were my only luxury. John and I both came from comfortable homes but he never knew the love and support that there was in my family. So when the whole Beatles thing happened I kept my feet on the ground while he went off on some kind of lunar trajectory"
Until recently, neither Cynthia nor Julian were rich. Cynthia received the relatively paltry sum of Ј100,000 from the divorce ("The lawyers told me to ask for more but I didn't want to, I loved him.") Julian, now 37 and living in the South of France, initially received just Ј100 a week from the Ј250 million Lennon estate. Later, Yoko gave him Ј70,000. Three years ago, after a legal battle, he received a settlement reported to be Ј20million, although he suggests the sum is much less. But more than anything, Julian's suffering has been emotional. The pair had little contact and John treated him coldly, in contrast to his behaviour with Sean, his son by Yoko.

After his death, Yoko refused to give Julian any of his father's possessions. He was reduced to buying Lennon memorabilia at auction. It was with this in mind that Cynthia, who had not picked up a paintbrush in years, decided to create four portraits of John for her son. "Losing a parent young, is devastating," she says. "I can only try to educate him, to make him feel that his father did love him even if he can't tell him any more. I need him to see that there was love there, to see the letters his Dad wrote to me and to say 'OK darling, he was a man, a simple man with a massive talent and what you have to do is get under the skin of that man rather than read about him in those trashy books.' And I hope that if Julian is ever feeling bitter and rejected he can look at the paintings and feel better."
In the past, Cynthia has made diplomatic noises about Yoko. Now she shoots back a "Who?" at the mention of her name. "I don't discuss certain people," she continues with a smile. "If you haven't anything positive to say then say nothing at all." It is impossible to resist the odd dig though. "Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived."
Since John, Cynthia has married twice more as well as living with former chauffeur Jim Christie for 16 years. When he left her two years ago, she found herself alone for the first time in her adult life. To be fair, Lennon must have been a hard act to follow, not least because Cynthia clearly still loves him. As she talks about him her eyes brim with tears, she knocks back another glass of wine and draws on an endless supply of cigarettes. There is a vulnerable air to her, which makes it easy to understand how she was persuaded into embarrassing business ventures such as Woman perfume (after the song) and Lennon's restaurant, with a menu featuring such dishes as Rubber Sole.
Now, however, she is in a new relationship with Noel Charles, a 58-year-old Trinidadian-born nightclub owner, who makes a brief appearance before tactfully disappearing to go shopping. The couple met through Julian, who clearly saw that Noel - with a wide circle of friends in the Princess Margaret crowd - was unlikely to be intimidated by any predecessor. "We're extremely happy," Cynthia says with a grin.
In essence, Cynthia was a suburban girt who simply became overwhelmed. "When John discovered drugs I lost him," she says. "He had decided his path in life and there was nothing I could do about it. He would just take acid every day in the hope of escaping from me, from Julian, from the Beatles. I tried acid twice but it just made me feel sick. My priority was Julian, while John had no interest in responsibility at all." After their divorce in 1968, Cynthia lost touch with the rest of the Beatles, while Yoko prevented any contact at all with John. "There were so many petty jealousies," she sighs. The last time she saw him was in New York in 1973. "I went there for Julian's sake but it was a very awkward situation for us all. It was certainly no holiday"
Doing the paintings, Cynthia says, has given her a new lease of creative life, reintroducing her to the career she abandoned when she met and married John. Since then, she has painted her farmer neighbors. The locals show little interest in her past, yet much of her contentment comes from her willingness to accept her place as a bit player in rock 'n' roll history. "If you are part of the Beatles experience you can't deny it," she says. "It would be impossible to pretend none of this ever happened. I try and opt for a quiet life but I have learned by now that once you've experienced the sort of scenario I did it's impossible to settle for normality. If I've learned anything from this, it's not to make any plans. You never know what may be around the corner."

Linda Mc Dermott interviews Cynthia.
Liverpool Echo, Friday, Febuary 17th, 1995.







CYNTHIA LENNON bears one of the most famous names of the 20th century. Yet she remains something of a puzzle to millions of fans all over the world.

How could an ordinary young girl from Hoylake have emerged such a calm and well balanced woman from the history-making events that engulfed her? It's a question that simply makes Cynthia shrug her shoulders as she sits in the picture window of her beautiful Manx home.

"I come from a family of very placid, quiet people," she says "And I have always been the same. Nothing that's happened to me in the whole Beatles saga has done anything to change that. I've never once felt in need of a psychiatrist." She laughs. "In fact it's funny, because Julian recently came home and told me he'd been to a psychiatrist in America at his girlfriends insistence. She wanted to sort their relationship out or something." But he said: 'Mum, they're all crackers there. You're my analyst and you don't cost anything.' so we're each others shrink!"
Divorce
The house, a Swiss chalet-style affair on the side of a ravine, has one entire wall of reinforced glass which looks out onto a cascade of water falling amid a forest of lush trees. It's there she lives happily with her partner of nearly 13 years, Jim Christie. After divorce from John Lennon as a result of Yoko Ono's arrival - Cynthia stumbled on them together in their Surrey mansion - and two subsequent failed marriages, Jim Christie is, says Cynthia, 'a miracle'.

"Jim has never felt he's living in John Lennon's shadow," says Cynthia. "He's four years younger than me and wasn't really part of that whole Beatles scene, though his parents were in showbusiness". "He knew Julian before he knew me and, in fact taught him to ride motorbikes - and we became friends as a result. He's slotted so easily into my life it really is a miracle for me.
"And living here on the island for the last nine years feels like I'm finally at rest. After I found out about John and Yoko and we split up, I seemed to be constantly on the move. I'd move house every three years, which was ridiculous, but for many different reasons - all of them some kind of search for peace."

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"Here I think I've found what I was looking for and Julian has a bolt hole in a place where we can just take a flask and go walking across the hills."

Julian has given his 'loving but predictable technical appraisal' of his mum's latest work - a surprisingly impressive version of Mary Hopkin's 1970's hit Those Were The Days. Surprising in the main because no-one had the faintest idea that the ex-wife of one half of the greatest ever singer-songwriter partnership could hold a note.

"The last time I sang in front of an audience was when I was in Hoylake parish girls choir," says Cynthia. "My mum and dad and brothers were all smiling encouragingly at me." I haven't had the occation to sing from that day to this, but even through my closest friends sniffed a bit when I told them I was making a record, they ate their words when they heard it. Julian is hard to please, son or not, and I was a little on edge about what his verdict would be, but apart from saying 'well, I'd have put guitars in here or keyboard in there' he thinks its great and he's thrilled. I've no idea what John would have thought because the situation would have never arisen if we'd stayed together. Even though we were at Liverpool Art College together he was not supportive of my painting. He didn't have time. My painting had to go out of the window. I left college when I became pregnant with Julian and so I didn't get my piece of paper to say I was going to be an art teacher. All I've got is a National Diploma - which I'm very proud of and which hangs on my wall. As John said, 'life's what happens to you when you're busy making other plans". The years that followed were so intense that whoever was around the Beatles had to be just totally supportive of them. It didn't bother me. I was very happy to be in the background. I was never one for the limelight, although life changed that for me. John wasn't difficult to live with though at all. We got on like a house on fire. There were inevitable stresses because he was so tired and pressured by all the work that was being done."

Although Yoko Ono was the ultimate reason for their eventual split, the years have given Cynthia the time to reflect more closely on the damage John's experiments with drugs did to their relationship.

"Despite the fact that we had become the focus of worldwide attention," she says, "don't forget I was still the same, sensible girl from Hoylake with my feet on the ground. Life with John took me from Hoylake to a mansion to the Maharishi in India, but I had done a lot of growing up very quickly."
Screaming
"The Indian period was very relaxing, we were away from all the screaming and pressure. Brian Epstein had just died and we each needed to gather our thoughts. But the Beatles began dabbling in drugs when we went out with a dentist friend and he spiked our drinks. It was a night of absolute horror for all of us - probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me. After that, John got really into experimenting with drugs and because he was having a good time he wanted me to join him, but I hated it. And that was the end of the end for our relationship which was very sad."
Its now 25 years since the love story that began at Liverpool Art College ended, but she confesses she misses him deeply.

"I think no matter what two people have gone through - divorce, arguments, whatever - that its a tragedy not to be able to talk over things in later life on a nice even keel," she says. "It's tragic for Julian - and for me not to be able to talk to John about Julian. He occasionally speaks to his half brother Sean, but its not very often. I communicate with Yoko. But contrary to what the media would prefer to believe, we don't fight. We saw each other last at Auntie Mimi's funeral and it was all perfectly civil. Yoko leads her life which is extraordinary and I have mine how I like it .... ordinary."

7 ноября 2000

тогда же

Roberto Bassini, Cynthia Lennon, and Julian Lennon
Original caption: 7/31/1970-London, England- Italian film director Roberto Bassini and his wife, Cynthia, the former wife of Beatle John Lennon, leave the wedding registry office here, July 31, after their wedding. The groom holds Julian Lennon, Cynthia's child by her previous marriage.

Почему-то мне вдруг особенно сильно захотелось прочитать книгу Синтии “A Twist Of Lennon” (а так желание это, в принципе, возникло уже давно и никогда окончательно не забывалось…) Won’t you please – PLEASE! – help me?
Предпочтительнее вариант на языке оригинала, но для первого ознакомления сгодится и перевод.
Заранее признательна,
Love from Tanya.

Cин

Подождите, а духи со своим именем она выпускала?

2Кер
...her settlement from the divorce was not huge - ?100 000 - but the heritage of her marriage has powered her through her book, plus a perfume she launched called Woman (after the Lennon song of the same name), and Lennon's restaurant, in London (on its menu was a fish dish called Rubber Sole). Five years ago she even released a single, a version of Those were the Days...
Соответственно, духи были не со своим именем. Но были :)

Информация уже представлена в новостях.
См. https://www.beatles.ru/news/news.asp?news_id=1753

Для тех, кто хочется ознакомиться с оригиналом (он полнее, чем перевод):
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/12/wlenn12.xml

А это официальное новостное письмо сайтов lennon.net и julianlennon.com, разосланное сегодня подписчикам:

Cynthia Lennon book to be published in the autumn - 15 Mar 2005

Cynthia Lennon has revealed that she is working on a book which is to be published in September. The book will be an honest and truthful account of her life with John with many, up to now, private memories and disclosures, “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. Only I know what happened between us – why we stayed together, why we parted and the price I paid for having been John’s wife.”

Although Cynthia wrote a book about John Lennon some years ago she says that her new book will include “so much that I have never said, so many incidents that I have never spoken of and so many feelings I have never expressed – great love on one hand; pain and torment on the other.”

Simply titled John the book is published by Hodder and Stoughton this autumn.

Книгу уже можно предварительно заказать на amazon.co.uk

Untitled Cynthia Lennon Autobiography
By Cynthia Lennon
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Release date: 29 September, 2005
Price: Ј18.99
From Amazon.co.uk

Untitled Cynthia Lennon Autobiography
By Cynthia Lennon
Coronet Books
Release date: 10 April, 2006
Price: Ј6.99
From Amazon.co.uk

А тем временем, некоторые еще до сих пор не читали старую книгу и очень переживают по этому поводу:( HELP ME, PLEEEEASE!

Love from Tanya.

В пятницу пришло новостное письмо с lennon.net:

Cynthia Lennon’s book, “John”, is now available through www.lennon.net. This is your ONLY chance to buy a copy, of what promises to be the biography of the season, personally signed by Cynthia. Cynthia’s book is the definitive and most intimate portrait of John Lennon yet, complemented by dozens of never before seen family photographs and, uniquely, a Foreword to the book written by Julian Lennon. With only 500 signed books available pre-order now to avoid disappointment. “John” is published on 25 September 2005 and orders will be dispatched on and from that day.

Order here >> http://www.lennon.net/Lennon/autobiography.htm

Ну почему у меня до сих пор нет кредитной карточки? :( Господа коллекционеры! Если кто будет заказывать книгу, не посодействуете мне как-нибудь? Буду очень признательна...

Love from Tanya.

... A Foreword to the book [is] written by Julian Lennon ...

Но поверьте, это не единственная причина, по которой книга меня так интересует ;) Воспоминания инсайдеров - вообще удивительная вещь! А судя по тем высказываниям Синтии, которые мне доводилось читать/слышать, от ее воспоминаний я жду особенно многого...

Love from Tanya.

September 4, 2005 -- Contact Music

LENNON SHOCK AT PREGNANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

John Lennon's first wife Cynthia Lennon has revealed that the pop legend was horrified when she announced that she was pregnant.

21-year old Lennon received the bombshell just as The Beatles were beginning to make their transition from local Liverpudlian heroes to chart contenders in the early 1960s.

Cynthia says, "I watched his face drain of all colour, and fear and panic crept into his eyes. He was speechless for what seemed like an age.

"Then he broke the silence. 'There's only one thing for it, Cyn. We'll have to get married."

Lennon had previously rebuffed Cynthia's attempts to talk him into marriage.

John Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Lennon, claims in her forthcoming book, John, that the late rock icon had an explosive temper that at one point resulted in physical violence. Cynthia writes that a jealous John hit her after seeing her dance with early Beatles member Stuart Sutcliffe. However, she adds, "Although he was still verbally cutting and unkind, he was never again physically violent to me." John hits stores Sept. 27.

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307338556
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-534-1774227-534,00.html