WI John Lennon emigrates to New Zealand?

Just saw this. Wikipedia quote:

"After numerous criticisms from the Stanley family about their (still-married) daughter ‘living in sin’ with John Dykins, and considerable pressure from Mimi—who twice contacted Liverpool’s Social Services to complain about the infant Lennon sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins—she reluctantly handed the care of Lennon over to Mimi and her husband, George Smith. In July 1946, Alf Lennon (John’s father) visited Mimi’s house and took Lennon to Blackpool for a long holiday, but he was secretly intending to emigrate to New Zealand with him. Julia and Dykins found out and followed them to Blackpool. Alf asked Julia to go with them both to New Zealand, but she refused. After a heated argument, Alf said their five-year-old child had to choose between his mother or him. He chose Alf (twice) so Julia walked away, but in the end her son (crying) followed her.

She took John back to her house and enrolled him in a local school, but after few weeks she handed him back to Mimi.”
 
New Zealand Invasion? :)
(No, I realize that the economics were marginal for the early days of OTL Beatles, with a much bigger local market, playing in Germany, etc.. No way could a hypothetical Lennon NZ band get the exposure it needed to afford a trip to the US.)
 
Split Enz gets a new founding member.

There were a few Kiwi bands in the late 1960s he could end up in - the Fourmyula & the Avengers instantly spring to mind - and match a bit more closely to John's age.

After those bands break up at the end of the 1960s, he might go into singer-songwrighter territory (or join a collective like BLERTA), then maybe drift into producing albums.. perhaps even producing some recordings by Hello Sailor or Th' Dudes.

Then in 1980, WEA employ Lennon to produce the debut album by a new wave/punk band called Toy Love - figuring his work producing more mainstream hard rock bands could shape their raw potential into something marketable. Lennon soon strikes up a friendship with the band - and especially the main songwriter Chris Knox, stemming from their shared warped sense of humour & love of 'off the wall' music...
 
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