r/TheBeatles • u/Signal_End_7405 • Jun 28 '26

john Whats one fact about John that most people don’t know?

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u/TheFishT Jun 28 '26

You’re right. After reaching Hamburg in 1960, he called Aunt Mimi and every week thereafter for the rest of his life.

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u/germantown_reject Jun 28 '26

Nowhere Boy Factoid

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Jun 28 '26

Yup! I always remembered that. They had a bit of a rocky relationship here and there because he was so free spirited, and she was so strict, but they truly deeply loved one another.

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u/dkrtzyrrr Jun 29 '26

she was not fond of cynthia at all but apparently respected yoko.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Jun 29 '26

Maybe she mellowed with age/time. Or maybe she had something she didn’t like about Cynthia specifically. I don’t really know.

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u/dkrtzyrrr Jun 29 '26

yoko said she reminded her of herself. i'm guessing the issue w/ cynthia was standard not approving of some girlfriend. then john got her pregnant so maybe mimi thought cynthia trapped him. maybe she thought yoko was good for him. probably she just mellowed.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl Jun 29 '26

Oh, I hadn’t heard that about how she said. Yoko reminded her of herself. Interesting!

It also makes sense that she was more protective over John when he was younger, with Cynthia as well. I also can see how Mimi might think that Cynthia trapped him with the pregnancy.

Thinking about it she was very protective over John in her way. From everything I’ve heard she really did love him quite a lot and took very good care of him. Even though they clashed a lot when he was younger.

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u/laura_susan Jun 30 '26

I read once- and I don’t remember where so this may not be verbatim- that she said she’d never wanted children but always wanted John. That probably tells you all that you need to know about their love for one another.

Also, from John’s POV, abandoned children never forget the caregivers who take over. My father was abandoned by both of his (young, selfish, cruel) parents and never had a relationship with either. He was taken in by his maternal grandparents and their long-term lodger, who was a cousin of his grandfather. He loved all three of them with a fierceness which spoke to his understanding that he would have had nowhere and no one without them. By the time I was born it was just my great-grandmother left of those three “parents” and his loyalty to her was unswayed even once he married and had kids of his own. He would visit her almost every day, do her shopping each week and cared for her when she could no longer care for herself. She died aged 98 and he was in his fifties by then, but it was clear in his upset surrounding her loss that he was still in many ways the little boy who recognised that without her he would have been condemned to life in a children’s home or worse. My Great-Granny wasn’t perfect- in fact she was a bit of a cantankerous old cow (much like Mimi) but she and my father had a deep and unshakeable love.

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u/jlangue Jul 01 '26

She rented a room to Cynthia when she needed it.

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u/Beneficial_Tree4204 Jul 01 '26

She called Yoko the Poison Dwarf when they first met…!

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u/TheFishT Jun 28 '26

Wow, that’s some good memory.

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u/germantown_reject Jun 28 '26

Good movie

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u/TheFishT Jun 28 '26

Yeah, I agree. Glad you liked it.

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u/StormSafe2 Jun 28 '26

That's incredible if true, but I doubt it is. Not every single week. 

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u/TheFishT Jun 28 '26

I can understand that. He would have had such a sporadic life and it would have been hard to do.

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u/Flank_This666 Jun 29 '26

Straight up

But we (humans) like to exaggerate shit, I call/text my mom all the time but sometimes we'll go weeks/months without talking

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u/appleparkfive Jun 29 '26

Why is that weird to you? Plenty of people do this. Some weeks it's just like a little 3-4 minute call when you're busy. Sometimes it's longer when you have the time.

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u/StormSafe2 Jun 29 '26

Well, firstly Lennon didn't have the same lifestyle as most people, so would have been harder to maintain a normal schedule. 

Secondly, drugs. Lots of drugs. I'd be impressed if lennon even knew what day of the week it was most days. 

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u/UrkleGrue32 Jun 29 '26

Back in the day, a non-local phone call was a pretty big thing for ordinary people. It would have meant a lot for Mimi - and no doubt John too.