Liverpool Part 1 John Lennon

John Lennon was born October 9, 1940. His father, Alfred “Freddie” Lennon, had been married to Julia Stanley only a short time when John was born. He lived with John and Julia off and on, but eventually left to serve in the merchant marine as a cook. On one voyage during World War II, Freddie Lennon never returned. John’s mother began living with another man John Dykins, that John nicknamed “Twitchy.” At that point, Julia sent John from her home on Penny Lane to live with her sister Mimi on Menlove Avenue.(1)

(Here, insert story of John choosing between Fred and Julia. Sources Coleman’s Lennon, Rolling Stone’s Lennon Remembers, Beatles In Their Own Words, and Anthology.)

(1) John spent his early years with his mother and father near Penny Lane and Strawberry Field. Source- Neil Aspinall, editor. The Beatles Anthology: By the Beatles, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.