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[John] was so excited about Yoko’s arrival that he could not stop talking and the subject on his mind was sex. He said that working always made him very “horny” and that he could not wait to “jump Mother’s bones.” He told me that when he appeared on stage with the Beatles, he would often demand that a female fan be held in the wings so that he could have a “knee-trembler” – which was Liverpool slang for quick stand-up sex – before or after the performance (or, occasionally, even between songs). “I was always obsessed with sex,” John confessed. “I’d run after girls and feel them up, put them up against a wall, that sort of thing.” He said he lost his virginity at age fifteen with his first girlfriend, Barbara Baker, a buxom, buck-toothed beauty. John then described the deflowering. “Barb wasn’t wet and I had a hell of a time shoving it in,” he said nonchalantly. “I was frantic to get inside her, and when I couldn’t, I got so frustrated and angry that I started to curse her: ‘You dumb cow, what’s wrong with you? You’re tight as a rat’s ear!’” John paused, shook his head and smiled. “It wasn’t her fault, of course. But what did I know? I was just a weird, psychotic kid covering up my insecurity with a macho façade.” Ruminating about his clumsy, often violent approach to love-making, he said that he never used to engage in foreplay; he would immediately attempt penetration. “I had no idea you were supposed to take your time,” he laughed nervously. “I thought the idea was to get in and out as quickly as possible.” He also told me that he would sometimes write his girlfriends erotic letters. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they show up one of these days, hopefully after I’m dead.” John paused briefly to sip the beer a light a fresh Gitane. “I think after my mother was killed, I felt betrayed by all womankind,” he continued. “I used to have fantasies about torturing women to death. I still have a lot of violent fantasies, but I manage to keep them under control.” He said that if he let his imagination run wild, he would imagine crucifying women, actually nailing them to a cross, and then disemboweling them. “It wasn’t until I met Yoko that I realized that men didn’t have to be aggressive, didn’t have to be macho, that men could be gentle and tender. That’s the lesson Yoko taught me.”

John Lennon: Living on Borrowed Time, Frederic Seaman (1991)

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John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison with Bernie Andrews for a recording of ‘Saturday Club’ at the Playhouse Theatre, 17th December 1963

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Please someone can help me to find a site where to see this documentary? Outside the USA is impossible to find it

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Finally some photos where he is smiling to his son

John and Julian in the 70s

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The fact they have the same name doesn't mean he must to play him

I have nothing against the actor it's not his fault, I blame the casting director

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In Beatles '64 the part with Cyntia was cut, all the parts with Cynthia were cut or not explained

John Lennon and Paul McCartney humorously hiding Cynthia Lennon from photographers, February, 1964. — From the documentary "What's Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A."

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phone works two ways yk

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Got soft. Found a ref. Here it is. Idk

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This is the take of (Just Like) Starting Over that includes the line

"the time has come the walrus said for you and me to stay bed again"

I have read about this take before, but the links to it are always dead. So I was super excited to find it.

I've decided not to credit my source for the sake of their privacy, but I hope they know I'm very grateful.

Full lyrics (my transcription):

Take 3

Our life together Is so precious together We have grown We have grown

Although our love is still special Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

It's been too long since we took the time No one's to blame I know time flies So quickly

But when I see you darling It's like we both are falling in love again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Everyday we used to make it, loveSo why can't we be making love It's easy

The time has come the walrus said For you and me to stay in bed again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Why don't we fly off alone Spend a weekend at some old motel A little place without a phone A second honeymoon would do us well

Well well well well well

It's been so long to take the time No one's to blame I know time flies So quickly

But when I see you darling It's like we both are falling in love again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Our life together Is so precious together We have grown We have grown

Although our love is still special Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

Why don't we fly off alone A dirty weekend in some low motel A little place little place without a phone A second honeymoon would suit us well

Well well well darling

Ever think we used to make it love Why can't we be making love It's easy

The time has come the walrus said For you and me to stay in bed again It'll be just like starting over Starting over

Let's take a chance and go away Somewhere alone

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Paul McCartney selecting John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy” as one of his Desert Island Discs for the programme, broadcasted on January 30, 1982.

(Why did I only just realize he’s singing along to the “it’s getting better and better” lyric. Reminiscent of a Beatles song with that title perhaps..? I chose pain today.)

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Reanimated a silly little clip from the Beatles cartoon (I may have spent literally a week making this, and it's not even 10 seconds long 😭)

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so i woke up and randomly decided to draw paul and listen to phoebe

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The Beatles at Brian Epstein’s home in Belgravia, London, 19 May 1967.

Photography by Barrie Wentzell.

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The Magical Mystery Tour!

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Paul has some beautiful eyelashes <3 🌷