John and Cynthia met when they were both at art school, and their relationship was extremely fraught. Cynthia said John was physically violent towards her once at the beginning of their ...

Immediately after John Lennon’s death, Cynthia Lennon reluctantly let her son, Julian, visit Yoko Ono in New York. Julian was still a teenager, and Cynthia didn’t want him to travel alone.

Cynthia Lennon said that she, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Paul McCartney were the people closest to John Lennon before The Beatles. Lennon had a number of friends, but she didn’t think he could be his ...

In 1990, Cynthia Lennon contacted Yoko Ono about setting up a benefit concert on what would have been John Lennon’s 50th birthday. She hoped to televise the show and donate the proceeds in her ...