Understanding John Lennon. Francis Kenny

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      As John slowly developed a capacity for self-reliance, his arguments with Mimi grew. There were painful consequences. John’s emerging self-assurance was closely matched to his confidence in his writing, but this would often be frustrated and criticised by Mimi:

      I used to say, ‘Don’t you destroy my papers.’ I’d come home when I was 14 and she’d rooted through all my things and threw all my poetry out. I was saying, ‘One day I’ll be famous and you’re going to regret it’.²¹

      Mimi went to even greater lengths to curb this sense of independence. At a time when John was forming a stronger relationship with his mother, his visits to Blomfield Road having significantly increased, Mimi stepped up her opposition. Continuous quarrels developed over these visits, which Mimi venomously opposed. One weekend visit turned into a particularly hurtful episode after John threatened to stay with his mother. When John returned to Mendips a couple of days later, he found that Mimi had had his dog Sally, who he had owned since Junior School, destroyed. Mimi’s excuse was that 14-year-old John had threatened not to return and she wasn’t going to walk his dog. So, in the space of a weekend, she had no choice but to have the dog put down. John’s life-long friend Pete Shotton recalls that it was ‘one of the few times [he] ever saw John cry, after he returned home from Julia’s house and found Sally missing’.²² John’s ‘big brother’, cousin Stanley, believed that the fate of the dog, ‘which he adored’, dramatically affected him. His feeling towards Mimi changed, hardened and ‘he never forgave her for that’.

      The story of John’s childhood has largely been told through the narratives of Mimi. Major ‘players’ such as Julia, Freddie and the Stanleys have been silenced, discredited or been persuaded to accept Mimi’s version of events. John’s sister, Julia Baird, has stood out amongst those writers on John’s history in her attempt to bear witness for their mother, and has sought to reveal a more accurate picture of John’s life. She argues:

      Mimi lived for 11 years after John and she continued to rewrite her story. She said, ‘I knew I wanted John from the moment I first saw him.’ We all like our sister’s children, but she made all that up. Give her another 50 years and she’d have claimed she had John herself.²³

      John used his creativity to help stem the tides of such unhappiness. ‘It was all imagining I was Just William, really.’²⁴ John’s life, though, wasn’t like his hero’s childhood, with William getting up to comic scrapes along with his gang the Outlaws in a mythical corner of England. In fact, the adult John recalls how ‘the first thing I remember is a nightmare’.²⁵

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