Known as ''Cyn'', Cynthia Powell was born on September 10th 1939, a war baby, to Liliann Roby and Charles Powell. She has two brothers : Charles Jr. and Anthony (known as Tony). Cyn came from Hoylake, which was quite posh compared to John's neighborhood. That's why he called her prim and snob. Her nicknames from John were Miss Powell or Miss Hoylake, back when they weren't even dating. They met at Art College in Liverpool. Cyn was a very serious student, in fact she wanted to become an art teacher while John was failing every class or so, not knowing what he would do in life...She was engaged to some ''fellow in Hoylake'' (from her very own words) but still, she was fascinated by John's wit and love of trouble. John asked her to dance at a college party (before the summer holidays) but she said she couldn't, because she was engaged. Then John said : ''I didn't ask you to fucking marry me, did I?'' in typical John-style. She was about to leave when they decided to go to a bar, she went, which was very unusual from her. They then went to Stuart Sutcliffe's appartment and the rest is history. They had a son, Julian, in 1963 and they had to get married very quickly before the birth of the child. Their relationship was not perfect and quite volatile on John's side : he admitted to have cheated on her at leat a hundred times with groupies, friends, celebrities, etc. There was a great lack of communication, John was never the best communicator and Cyn was quite afraid of John sometimes so she kept to herself, thinking that problems would solve themselves later... She didn't enjoy doing drugs and she didn't understand John's need to do so. He eventually met Yoko Ono, who pursued him a lot. At first, he wasn't even interested in her : his ideal woman was Brigitte Bardot, not a small japanese woman who was older than him ! Cyn then got married to Roberto Bassassini in 1970, an Italian hotelier whom she had met in 1966 on a trip to Italy with her mom and Julian. In 1976, after her divorce from Roberto, she married John Twist, a friend of a friend. She divorced him and met Jim Christie, her partner for 17 years until they parted in 1999. She then married Noel Charles in 2002.
Cyn's books:
- A Twist of Lennon (1978) - She really restrains herself in this book, being really gentle and all...
- John (2005) - Excellent read, I've read it three times.
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