And as Beatlemania started to spread around the globe, Cynthia was asked to keep their marriage a secret. He later confessed that he “would never have married her, if she hadn’t got pregnant.” As an unspoken rule, rock stars were unmarried in those days to protect their image as teen idols. Wanting to do the right thing, John proposed to Cynthia and the couple married on 23 August 1962 at the Mount Pleasant Register Office in Liverpool. Things got rather more complicated when Cynthia became pregnant in July 1962. “I simply fell in love with a bad boy, whom I knew to be a bad boy,” she reported later. Friends described him as “a jealous, suspicious, unfaithful, bohemian boyfriend.” Cynthia suspected that John was having numerous affairs behind her back, but chose to ignore the warnings. All my Lover for Ever and ever from John.” The reverse never seemed to apply to John, and it was “love, love, love” whenever and wherever possible. “Dear Cyn,” he writes, “I love love love you and I’m missing you like mad…please wait for me and don’t be sad and work hard and be a clever little Cyn Powell. Cynthia was quiet and reserved and calm from a lower middle-class upbringing, and John was into endless bravado, tight jeans and long, greasy hair! It was a classic example of the attraction of opposites, and nobody thought that the relationship would last.Ĭynthia would occasionally accompany John on “Quarrymen” gigs, but when John travelled to Hamburg with the band, he was desperate that she would remain faithful to him. I fought men and I hit women.” The primary object of Lennon’s abuse during the early “wild days” was Cynthia Powell, a fellow student at the Liverpool College of Art. John Lennon, the founder of “The Quarrymen,” a band that eventually evolved into “The Beatles” in 1960 wrote, “I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically-any woman. Credit: is a rather infrequent visitor to the world of sex & drugs & Rock and Roll! Love ballads do constitute an important genre within the repertory of most bands, but reality frequently looks decidedly different.

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