5/19/2023 0 Comments John lennon and cynthia![]() ![]() ![]() Clothes, art materials, empty cigarette packets and books were scattered around it. I had always… no curtains and a mattress on the on the floor. There also appeared to be a social divide, which Lennon, with his reputation for ‘caustic wit’, liked to exploit: With his teddy-boy look - DA (duck’s arse) haircut, narrow drainpipe trousers and a battered old coat that was too big for him - he was very different from the clean-cut boys I was used to. ![]() When I first looked at John I’d thought, Yuck not my type. When John did show up, he ‘did his best to disrupt the class’. Here the established pattern, of poor attendance and even worse behaviour, continued. He hadn’t even brought any equipment.Ī reluctant and disruptive student - ‘most of the time he did no work at all’ - Lennon had been banished to the lettering (calligraphy) class when all his other lecturers refused to teach him. I was surprised to see him in the lettering class - he didn’t seem the type for the painstaking, detailed work involved. I’d seen John around the college but had never spoken to him: we moved in completely different circles. John and Cynthia met in September 1958, at Liverpool College of Art, where they were both in their second year. ![]()
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