First wife of the Beatle John Lennon who never escaped his shadowAs the first Mrs John Lennon, the former Cynthia Powell witnessed at first hand the reality-distorting effects of pop stardom on a hitherto unknown scale. Cynthia, who has died of cancer aged 75, married Lennon in 1962, just before the Beatles released their first single, Love Me Do. By the time the couple’s marriage foundered in 1968, the Beatles had become more like a religion than a pop group.Cynthia had done her best to share Lennon’s journey through drugs, mysticism and superstardom, but it proved an impossible challenge. When she returned that year from a trip to Greece to their Surrey mansion to find Lennon and the artist Yoko Ono, in matching towelling robes, gazing at each other, she realised the game was up. “The Beatles had overdosed on everything that fame can bring,” she reflected later. Continue reading...
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