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CYNTHIA LENNON, JOHN Lennon’s first wife and the mother of their son, Julian, died of cancer at her home in Mallorca, Spain, on April 1st. She was 75. “She showed that through life’s toughest adversities, one can remain kind, loving, generous, poised, graceful and classy,” Julian tells Rolling Stone. “[And have] an incredibly naughty and cheeky wit, too.” In a eulogy, Paul McCartney called her “a lovely lady” and “a good mother,” and Yoko Ono wrote, “She had such a strong zest for life, and I felt proud how we two women stood firm in the Beatles family.”
Born Cynthia Powell, Lennon met her future husband at art school in Liverpool in 1957. Beatlemania wasn’t easy for Cynthia: She and Lennon married in 1962 after she learned she was…
