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The Beatles - Now And Then (2023)
"I had [John] down as a coffee-boy layabout, as I used to call him, and thought he was rather arrogant. But when I got to know him – it's quite tragic really. I had an unhappy childhood, too, so there was a bit of an understanding there, although we never talked about it. I remember Stuart Sutcliffe saying that he once saw John at the top of the stairs at art school, crying on his own. That, to me, was the real John, but on stage, of course, he was arrogant."
Allan Williams, (link to article)
"John was a big softy, but his shield was hard. So that was very good for the two of us. Opposites attract. I could calm him down, and he could fire me up. We could see things in each other that the other needed to be complete."
John Lennon on a flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong, photographed by Robert whitaker | 3 July 1966
★ : Cynthia and John in 1964
★ John Lennon in October 28, 1964 after The Beatles performed at the ABC cinema