John Lennon...

[Nico]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I performed "Imagine" in high school while (one of my few "public" performances) my best friend played the piano. Considering where I was, some people were horrified that I was saying things like "Imagine there's no heaven" and no religion and so on, but others, those were older, just cried. I remember thinking I hope you can hear me, John, and I hope that somehow he did know it was for him and that I'm so grateful he gave us that beautiful song that I'm, thankfully, not too cynical to stop believing in.

That sounds absolutely incredible. I wish I had a singing voice, so I could sing Across the Universe or a stripped-down version of In My Life...something like that. I would have loved to see you, Hil!

As far as John's relationship with Yoko...I'm cool with it. Circumstances were what they were. I actually read John's ex-wife Cynthia's recent book. It was a nice book, but there was a point when I realized that Cynthia herself couldn't really handle John. She was somewhat prudish and conforming, and a little stiff in many ways- while he was always moving forward, checking out the newest thing, going far too fast for anyone around him. He needed someone who was on the same level as him, intellectually, and in other ways. I believe he got that with Yoko. Absolutely.

"I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds big-headed, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it." - John Lennon