As bandmate Paul McCartney would later note, The Beatles’ John Lennon’s short life was full ... with her and she was killed.” John and Alfred were estranged for much of their lives but ...

John's parents Julia and Alfred Lennon first met when they were teenagers and married in secret a decade later in 1938. John was born in 1940 but his parents didn't raise him – Julia allowed her ...

Lennon lost his mother in a car accident in July 1958. His father, Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman, never had close relations with his son. At the age of 16, Lennon was not a very successful ...