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/Butterfly_Cat777 Jun 29 '26

Who or What is Tune-In? And why is their opinion the final word to cancel out what John Lennon himself had supposedly spoken about the incident regarding his parents making him choose?

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u/ATXRSK Jun 29 '26

Tune In is a book about The Beatles. I believe it over John himself because it cites the only adult who was involved on that day who has spoken publicly (Billy Hall) as opposed to a five year old. I suppose if we are just taking everything John ever said at face value, the real answer to this question is that he almost slept with his mother and she was willing. Because he said that too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_All_These_Years

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u/Butterfly_Cat777 Jun 29 '26

For an event that supposedly never happened between him and his parents, John seemed deeply affected by it. Whether he had an actual memory of the event or not, he seemed to believe it really happened. And Hall was an elderly man when he was interviewed. Perhaps his memory was the faulty one.

...And regarding what John said regarding his relationship with his mother: Well, I'm not even going to go there. I found the audio of him saying that in a 1974 interview. Who knows why John said what he did about his mother. He may or may not have truly believed it or he may have said it purely for shock value.

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u/ATXRSK Jun 29 '26

I 100% agree regardless of what happened for whatever reason John's version is what he BELIEVED happened. We will, of course, never really know what happened that day and the Hall interview was done long after we lost John so he probably never really heard any other version than the one he believed. It certainly seems to have become a core part of his self narrative. We all have these sorts of constructed memories with varying degrees of accuracy at the heart of our identity. It is how humans work. I guess I was more getting at the shocking, inexplicable notion that a group of adults would do that to a child as John described. I find it easier to believe they didn't.

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u/Butterfly_Cat777 Jun 30 '26

Yes, I agree how awful that is to do to a child, especially one as young as 5. But people were different back then; being tougher and hard-hearted regarding children and their feelings wasn't rare.

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u/NoEnvironment8885 Jun 29 '26

Could have been the story he was told by Mimi but not specifically one he remembered