Cynthia Powell Lennon was the first wife of John Lennon and the mother of Julian Lennon. Powell and Lennon started a relationship after meeting in a calligraphy class. She married Italian hotelier Roberto Bassanini in 1970, divorcing him in 1976. In 1978, she married English engineer John Twist, but divorced him in 1982. After her divorce from Twist, she changed her name back to Lennon and met Jim Christie, her partner for the next 17 years. She later married Noel Charles, a night club owner from Barbados, from 2002 until his death in 2013.
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Cynthia Powell Lennon was the first wife of John Lennon and the mother of Julian Lennon. She was born in Blackpool and raised in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula. Powell and Lennon started a relationship after meeting in a calligraphy class. She married Italian hotelier Roberto Bassanini in 1970, divorcing him in 1976. In 1978, she married English engineer John Twist, but divorced him in 1982. After her divorce from Twist, she changed her name back to Lennon and met Jim Christie, her partner for the next 17 years. She later married Noel Charles, a night club owner from Barbados, from 2002 until his death in 2013. She published a book of memoirs, A Twist of Lennon, in 1978, and a more intimate biography, John, in 2005. Over the years, she staged several auctions of memorabilia associated with her life with Lennon. She lived in Calvià in Majorca until her death from cancer in 2015. She sang to celebrate her 50th birthday with friends and family at a pub called Ain’t She Sweet (Ain’t That A Girl?). She also wrote a biography of her husband, John Lennon, called John Lennon: My Life with the Beatles. She died of cancer at the age of 80 in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2015. For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch, see www.samaritans.org for details.
In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. In Australia, contact the National suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-8457-9255 or click here for details on how to get in contact with Samaritans in the United States. In the UK, contact Samaritans on 0800 555 111 or click here for help in the United Kingdom. For confidential support on suicide matters, call the Samaritans in the UK on 0808 909090 or click here for help in the U S. or the U.S., England and Northern Ireland on 0800 909090. For confidential. support in the Middle East, call 08457 90909 or the UK on 08457 9090. For confidential help in Europe, call the European Union on 08457 9090 or the United States on 0800 8457. In the Middle East and Africa, call 0800 9090 or the UK on 08457 7090 or the U.N. on 0808. She was the youngest of three children of General Electric Company employee Charles Powell and his wife Lillian, who already had two sons named Charles and Anthony. When Powell was 16, her father died from lung cancer after a long illness.
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