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Fact #52625

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John Lennon of The Beatles is visited for three days at his home, Kenwood, London, England, UK, Europe, by his father Alfred, who had abandoned him as a child.

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John Lennon : I never knew my father. I saw him twice in my life till I was 22 when he turned up after I'd had a few hit records. I saw him and spoke to him, and decided I still didn't want to know him,

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John Lennon : I never saw him until I made a lot of money and he came back. I opened the Daily Express and there he was, washing dishes in a small hotel or something, very near where I was living in the stockbroker belt outside London, England, UK, Europe. He had been writing to me to try to get in contact. I didn't want to see him. I was too upset about what he'd done to me and to my mother and that he would turn up when I was rich and famous and not bother turning up before. So I wasn't going to see him at all, but he sort of blackmailed me in the press by saying all this about being a poor man washing dishes while I was living in luxury. I fell for it and saw him and we had some kind of relationship. He died a few years later of cancer.
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