but for which she mightn't have been here at all. if right here on Menlove Avenue he hadn't lost his license. On another day, Bobby might have come to collect her. She had three choices: to walk all the way, perhaps cutting across the golf course to walk down to Woolton Road and catch the bus to Garston (and then walk) or to cross Menlove Avenue and catch the bus going north, toward Penny Lane, and then change for a bus cutting back south again, to Springwood. Having said what she'd gone there to say, Julia left for home at 9:45. John was at Blomfield Road when she left to pay the visit. If Julia didn't agree, then perhaps discussions became heated, because-heavy-hearted or otherwise-she ended up going to Mimi's home to convey this very message. It was going to be hard enough to feed two girls without a gluttonous young man eating them out of house and home. The summer term at Liverpool College of Art had ended on Friday the 4th, three days after Julia's lover Bobby Dykins lost his driving license and his job and had been fined the equivalent of about three weeks' wages, cash they may not have had.įinancially, things were suddenly tight at 1 Blomfield Road, and Dykins had told Julia a stark truth as he saw it: they could no longer afford to have John staying at the house. Her visit on Tuesday, July 15 1958, had a purpose, though. Their original relationship had been rekindled since John began shuttling between them. I never had you./ I wanted you but you didn't want me" - prove pivotal in understanding the pain that lies just beneath the surface of a Lennon song. Both his gentle ballad to his absent mother on the White Album (1968) - "Half of what I say is meaningless,/ but I say it just to please you, Julia" - and "Mother," his anguished recollection of her death that opened his first single album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970) - "Mother, You had me. Lennon's first son, Julian, is named after his mother.īut most of all Julia's death was a musical inspiration. The road accident that killed Julia - with an off-duty policeman at the wheel - confirmed Lennon in his distrust of anyone in authority. Few events in John Lennon's brief life were as traumatic and painful than the death of his mother, Julia, when he was 17.Īlthough Julia had abandoned John to be brought up by her sister, Mimi, the event proved important in cementing his close working partnership with Paul McCartney, whose mother had died from an embolism when he was 14.
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