John

the long version

Cynthia Powell first encountered John Lennon in 1958 at the Liverpool College of Art, where they were both students. Almost from the first, she was smitten; one relative remembers her proposing to the future star the year they met. When Cynthia became pregnant in 1962, their somewhat one-sided romance became a rocky marriage, which somehow survived through much of the group's fame but crumbled because of John's affair with Yoko Ono. In 'John', the first wife of the late Beatle shares her unique