64 years ago today, John Lennon wed Cynthia Powell in a small ceremony at the register office in Liverpool. With The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein as his best man and bandmates Paul McCartney and George Harrison present, the couple began what would be a short-lived marriage. But first, The Beatles had a show to play.
For Lennon, not even his own wedding stopped him from performing with The Beatles at the Riverpark Ballroom in Chester. The band played at the ballroom four Thursdays in the summer of 1962, with Ringo Starr joining the group for the first time only two days after they played their first gig there.
As the band began to soar into their newfound stardom, precautions had to be put in place for Lennon and his new wife to have a honeymoon. Their manager, Epstein, joined the couple for a belated honeymoon in Paris weeks after the ballroom shows, ensuring that the wedding news was kept private. But they couldn’t hide the news for long — Cynthia was pregnant.
She gave birth to their son, John Charles Julian Lennon, on April 8, 1963, in Liverpool. According to People, Lennon was on tour at the time and wasn’t able to see his wife and newborn son until three days later.
In 2011, Lennon’s son (who changed his name to Julian Charles John) spoke to The Times and revealed that he didn’t have a strong relationship with his father.
“Mum was more about love than Dad,” he said. “He sang about it, he spoke about it, but he never really gave it, at least not to me as his son.”
Cynthia also opened up about her strained relationship with her husband during an interview with The Independent in 1999.
“I didn’t marry a Beatle,” she said. “I married a broke student who played the guitar and ponced all my grant money off me.”
During a flight from India to the U.K. in 1968, People wrote that Lennon told Cynthia she had been unfaithful during their marriage. Later, she learned he wanted to sue for divorce “on grounds of adultery and seek sole custody of Julian,” People reported.
However, when she found out that Yoko Ono was pregnant with Lennon’s child, she began divorce proceedings against him. Their separation was finalized in November 1968, and Ono and Lennon married only four months later.
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