John Lennon was a juvenile delinquent (video)

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Bloody 'ell, Jon, what's wit ya?

John Sheff (All We Are Saying), John Lennon Wiki edited by Wisdom Quarterly

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In September 1980, Lennon commented about his rebellious nature and family:

"A part of me would like to be accepted by all facets of society and not be this loudmouthed lunatic poet/musician. But I cannot be what I am not...

"I was the one who all the other boys' parents – including Paul's father – would say, 'Keep away from him...' The parents instinctively recognized I was a troublemaker, meaning I did not conform and I would influence their children, which I did.

All We Are Saying (Net Archive)

"I did my best to disrupt every friend's home... Partly out of envy that I didn't have this so-called home... but I did... There were five women that were my family. Five strong, intelligent, beautiful women, five sisters. One happened to be my mother.

"[She] just couldn't deal with life. She was the youngest and she had a husband who ran away to sea and the war was on, and she couldn't cope with me, and I ended up living with her elder sister.

"Now those women were fantastic... And that was my first feminist education... I would infiltrate the other boys' minds. I could say, 'Parents are not gods because I don't live with mine and, therefore, I know'" (All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, John Sheff, 2000, pp. 158-59, 160-61).

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