WI: John Lennon did go with his father to New Zealand

I found an interesting quote from Wikipedia...

In July 1946, Alf visited Mimi's house at 251 Menlove Avenue and took his son to Blackpool for a long 'holiday' — but secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him. Julia and Dykins found out and followed them to Blackpool, and after a heated argument Alf made the five-year-old boy choose between Julia or him. John chose Alf (twice) and then Julia walked away, but in the end John, crying, followed her. Alf lost contact with the family until Beatlemania, when he and John met again.

...so it makes us wonder what if John still goes to his father instead of following her mother? Will John Lennon still have a musical career? Will Paul McCartney still form The Quarrymen? Will Yoko Ono have a different path? What are your thoughts/ideas on this?
 
There was a timeline started about this a while ago that sadly seems to have died. Certainly I think that Lennon, McCartney and Harrison were so talented indivually that they would have made it in the music industry in some way. But without each other they wouldn't have reached the heights they did.
 
Hard to know about what would happen in NZ.

I suspect Lennon would probably move back to the UK at some point, given that most of his family would be there, that it would be more exciting, that it would have more opportunity and of course because it would be an easy trip (citizenship helps even this far back).

Going to Australia would be slightly easier, but remember he would be most likely to consider moving on to a more exciting life in his late teens/twenties, so that would mean he would be likely to travel by ship anywhere. So I suspect if one has to decide between the UK (London?) or Australia, as a UK born NZ citizen, you would be quite likely to chose the former, unless you had a good reason to go to the latter (job offer, girlfriend etc).

In any event, plenty of such immigrants head back home, Richard O'Brien being one
 
it makes us wonder what if John still goes to his father instead of following her mother? Will John Lennon still have a musical career? Will Paul McCartney still form The Quarrymen? Will Yoko Ono have a different path? What are your thoughts/ideas on this?

Paul didn't form the Quarrymen - they were John's band.. but in this timeline I can see Paul forming a band of his own - his dad was a musician, and music would still be a great escape for him after the death of his mother. I can also see him having a fair degree of success - although maybe a year or two later than in OTL - If Paul didn't have John, he might take a bit longer to get to a standard where he could write great songs by himself. (unless he can team up with a really good songwriting partner circa 1962.. suggestions?)

John could go into visual arts, writing, cartooning, acting or music - he dabbled in it all in OTL. If he still becomes a musician, there are plenty of bands from New Zealand that he could've ended up in. Sure many were cover bands for whatever overseas hits arrived down under, but there was some local songwriting going on (especially by The Fourmyula, who wrote most of their songs).

In the 1970s John may well have joined some sort of art commune like BLERTA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blerta ).. but after that falls apart, he may well get into the underground scene here - maybe as an early figure in Flying Nun Records - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun_Records - perhaps the producer of choice for the label?
 
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