And they came to have a chat, and they came to see the restaurant and see me. He’s working on a book with him at the moment. That’s right, Peter Brown, and Stephen Gaines is an author.

No, it was just purely - I was running a restaurant at the time in North Wales and a friend of mine who is from the old days came to the restaurant, also with another friend, and saw my drawings from the book there on the walls. I don’t know if you read about it, because I did a few interviews. How did this art exhibit and tour come about? Is that both professionally and personally? Well, the name I’m using is Lennon, mainly because I wrote the book “A Twist of Lennon” and it was Cynthia Lennon and, you know it seems to be with me. What follows is the Beatlefan interview with Cynthia Lennon, originally published in two parts in Vol. In addition to the exhibit of 15 cartoons, she brought with her to Atlanta a large, colorful painting of The Beatles (valued at $25,000), which she donated in Lennon’s memory to the Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital. But her relationship with Lennon was put off-limits for the conversation Beatlefan Publisher Bill King had with her. Speaking in a British accent devoid of any Liverpudlian drawl, she talked willingly about her work and her life with The Beatles. She laughed slightly with embarrassment when asked about that. She wants to be known for something she’s done on her own, yet she is using the last name of Lennon instead of the name of her estranged husband, John Twist. The art shows open up the possibility of a belated career as an artist for her, but the subject of her exhibited works is her life with Lennon and The Beatles.

It’s a situation that finds her with one foot in the future and one in the past. So it was that in the wake of a much-publicized art show in September (1981) at Long Island’s Tower Gallery, Cynthia Lennon (the name she uses professionally now) came to Atlanta the first week of December to launch a national tour of her artwork at the Limelight disco. But the 42-year-old blonde has found a new way to make her unavoidable place in history work for her. John Lennon, even if she wanted to - and she doesn’t. …Ĭynthia Lennon Twist could never escape being known as the first Mrs. Here is that interview, originally published in early 1982. Bill King wrote in his Publisher’s Notes for Beatlefan #213 about interviewing and meeting Cynthia Lennon.

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