
Ep. 65: John Lenin
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
McCartney and Lennon
Lennon and McCartney both lose their mothers at, you know, in their, in their teen age years. Lennon is raised by his aunt, Mimi, who is kind of a terrible kind of a bad mother figure for him. He was obviously born to be and she kept wanting him to get a useful skill. But he ends up going to art school anyway. John Lennon is the Rick James of the United Kingdom. And all of this is in Liverpool, which is not London. It's a Northern English kind of, it's a dreary place that used to produce lots of ships during the British Empire. So let's just start there.
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