Memories of John Lennon by Yoko Ono

Author:Yoko Ono [Ono, Yoko]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2005-09-30T13:57:30+00:00

worked). John officially dedicated The Daily Howl to his coconspirator Pete.

Lennon also intended to dedicate his first published book, In His Own Write “To Pete—Who Got It First” (but John didn’t want to hurt his Aunt Mimi’s feelings

so he withdrew it at the last minute.) After Pete Shotton had perused The

Literary Lennon, he told me, and I gleefully quote, “John would have laughed his bollocks off at this!” (I took that as a compliment.)

Because of John’s writings I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting Mr. Ray

Coleman, whose felicitous pen has given us such deeply felt biographies of John

Lennon. Ray was a most gentle and smiling spirit and he was pleased to see that

someone had taken the time to acknowledge John’s literary accomplishments.

Then there was that enchanting raconteur Victor Spinetti, director of The

Lennon Play at the National Theater Company of Britain and the Beatles’ costar in A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Interviewing Victor at length convinced me that Lennon as “playwright” would form an apt sequel to

LL. (I’m working on it.)

Finally, the finest scholar of all things Beatles, Mark Lewisohn, has offered

me (generously and unselfishly) many literary facts, corrections and emendations

over the years. We all anxiously await his forthcoming chronicles of the Lads (the first installment is expected, I hear, in 2008).

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M e m o r i e s o f J o h n L e n n o n

All of this magnetic wonder came because of one John Winston Lennon.

Why even his name changed me, after he married Y

Ono

oko he became John

Lennon (that sweet gesture moved me to do the same, adding my Beloved’s

name to my own). In closing, I must say that the most memorable “memory” I

have of John Lennon comes from Our Own Dear Yoko, whose kindness and car-

ing invited the world to hear how Lennon’

Alive

s life stays

in us—and will con-

tinue to do so; “it is shining . . . to the end of the beginning. . . .”

James Manseau Sauceda, Ph.D., is director of the Multicultural Center at California State University at Long Be

The Literary Lennon,

ach and author of

the first serious study of Lennon’s

writing.

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Fred Schneider

A s a k i d , I a l w a y s r e a d a n d h e a r d t h a t J o h n w a s t h e

“ w i t t y ” o r “ c l e v e r ” B e a t l e . H e h a d a d r y a n d i n c r e d -

i b l y o b s e r v a n t s e n s e o f h u m o r . H i s a s i d e s a n d c o m -

m e n t s w e r e a l w a y s a h i g h l i g h t o f p r e s s c o n f e r e n c e s and interviews.

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