This is my newest timeline. This is my attempt at a NewsPaper, Radio/television, and ATL article style timeline. It will feature each member of OTL Beatles, along with other musicians and cultural figures. Unlike most of my timelines, which tend to be of the generic War and Politics variety, this is a change of pace, in honor of the new year. so here we go.
Frost: So, John, we all know of your musical career, and we’ve seen your political activism in New Zealand and other commonwealth countries. However, I don’t think the average person knows of your early life. We know you were born in England, but you were raised New Zealand. Could you tell us a little bit about your early life?
Lennon: Yes, I was born in Liverpool, England back during the war, during all the bombing and what not. Some of my earliest memories are when I was 4 or 5 playing on top of the rubble with some of the other local children. I don’t remember much of it really. Most of it’s a blurry memory. When it comes to how I ended up living with a bunch of Kiwis, that’s a story. My father, back during the war, was a merchant seaman. He, like many soldiers, sent his checks home. One day, the checks stopped coming. Apparently he went a-wall. Dad came back home shortly before the war was over. He came home to my mother impregnated by some Welshman. He offered to take care of all us, but my mother refused. My dad took me to his brothers house until my mother gave birth to the other mans child. My mom ended up putting the baby up for adoption, and my father ended up divorcing my mother.
Frost: That’s a lot to take in there. So your father disappeared, came back, offered to father your mothers illegitimate child, and ended up divorcing her.
Lennon: It goes on from there. About a year after they divorced, my father came to my aunt’s home, where I was living at the time, and took me away to Black Pool on what he said was a long “Holiday”. Which seems ridiculous to me now, considering he was essentially jobless at the time, but I was 5 or 6 at the time, I couldn’t have known. Well, it seemed that neither my aunt nor my mother discovered that my father’s plan was to immigrate to New Zealand and take me with him. So, the summer after the war ended, my father and I were on a ship leaving from Black Pool, on the long trip to Wellington.
Frost: Secretly taken to New Zealand? It almost sounds like he kidnapped you?
Lennon: Essentially that’s it, but since no one made any real attempts to try and find me, I ended up becoming a Kiwi by osmosis.
Frost: Fascinating. We’ll be back with more from John Lennon after a commercial break.
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I hope I wrote John's responses in an enough Lennonesque style.
Scrambled Eggs: A World Without the Beatles
(5/8/1989, John W. Lennon interviewed by David Frost)Frost: So, John, we all know of your musical career, and we’ve seen your political activism in New Zealand and other commonwealth countries. However, I don’t think the average person knows of your early life. We know you were born in England, but you were raised New Zealand. Could you tell us a little bit about your early life?
Lennon: Yes, I was born in Liverpool, England back during the war, during all the bombing and what not. Some of my earliest memories are when I was 4 or 5 playing on top of the rubble with some of the other local children. I don’t remember much of it really. Most of it’s a blurry memory. When it comes to how I ended up living with a bunch of Kiwis, that’s a story. My father, back during the war, was a merchant seaman. He, like many soldiers, sent his checks home. One day, the checks stopped coming. Apparently he went a-wall. Dad came back home shortly before the war was over. He came home to my mother impregnated by some Welshman. He offered to take care of all us, but my mother refused. My dad took me to his brothers house until my mother gave birth to the other mans child. My mom ended up putting the baby up for adoption, and my father ended up divorcing my mother.
Frost: That’s a lot to take in there. So your father disappeared, came back, offered to father your mothers illegitimate child, and ended up divorcing her.
Lennon: It goes on from there. About a year after they divorced, my father came to my aunt’s home, where I was living at the time, and took me away to Black Pool on what he said was a long “Holiday”. Which seems ridiculous to me now, considering he was essentially jobless at the time, but I was 5 or 6 at the time, I couldn’t have known. Well, it seemed that neither my aunt nor my mother discovered that my father’s plan was to immigrate to New Zealand and take me with him. So, the summer after the war ended, my father and I were on a ship leaving from Black Pool, on the long trip to Wellington.
Frost: Secretly taken to New Zealand? It almost sounds like he kidnapped you?
Lennon: Essentially that’s it, but since no one made any real attempts to try and find me, I ended up becoming a Kiwi by osmosis.
Frost: Fascinating. We’ll be back with more from John Lennon after a commercial break.
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I hope I wrote John's responses in an enough Lennonesque style.
If you wanna get a good sense of Lennon's personality, I'd recommend Lennon: The Definitive Biography, by Ray Coleman, who knew John Lennon personally. 
