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While his father is away at sea, John Lennon (John Winston Lennon), is born in Oxford Street Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, England, UK. He will find fame as a member of The Beatles.Full article:
Mary Smith (John's Aunt Mimi) : I knew, the moment I saw John in that hospital, that I was the one to be his mother and not Julia. Does that sound awful? It isn't really, because Julia accepted it as something perfectly natural. She used to say, 'You're his real mother. All I did was give birth...'
John Lennon : There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. One happened to be my mother. My mother was the youngest. She just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four and a half, I ended up living with her elder sister. ... My mother was alive and lived a 15-minute walk away from me all my life. I saw her off and on. I just didn't live with her.
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John Lennon : There were five women who were my family. Five strong, intelligent women. Five sisters. One happened to be my mother. My mother was the youngest. She just couldn't deal with life. She had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on and she couldn't cope with me, and when I was four and a half, I ended up living with her elder sister. ... My mother was alive and lived a 15-minute walk away from me all my life. I saw her off and on. I just didn't live with her.