God by John Lennon – He would be 70 today, John not God

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John Winston Lennon was born on 9 October 1940 in Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool, to Julia and Alfred Lennon. According to some biographers, a German air raid was taking place, and Julia’s sister, Mary “Mimi” Smith, used the light cast by the explosions to see her way as she ran through the blacked-out back roads to reach the hospital. Smith said later, “I knew the moment I saw John in that hospital that I was the one to be his mother, not Julia. Does that sound awful? It isn’t, really, because Julia accepted it as something perfectly natural. She used to say, ‘You’re his real mother. All I did was give birth.'” Lennon was named after his paternal grandfather, John “Jack” Lennon, and Winston Churchill.

John Lennon in his own words

Part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic musician. But I cannot be what I am not. Because of my attitude, all the other boys’ parents … instinctively recognized what I was, which was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their kids, which I did. … I did my best to disrupt every friend’s home … Partly, maybe, it was out of envy that I didn’t have this so-called home. But I really did … There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. One happened to be my mother. … She just couldn’t deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn’t cope with me, and when I was four and a half, I ended up living with her elder sister … those women were fantastic … That was my first feminist education … that knowledge and the fact that I wasn’t with my parents made me see that parents are not gods.