I think it was just that they both loved each other. I agreee that Yoko loodeg somewhat attractive in the 60s and 70s. They were both very smart people who shared similar viewpoints, and got along.
When John met Yoko he was already married and already had a child (Julian).
Yoko was a better match for John than Cynthia.
I would hate to nitpick, but first of all you’re kind generalizing “beautiful women” … it’s the same thing only with role reversal. Are you speaking from your own experiences? Now I know you said “most” and that’s at least not singling out all pretty gals. I DO recognize that.
Second, who’s to say what’s “attractive” and “unattractive”? Look at Sir Rhosis for example… he likes women a little bigger. I think more people would find that they like fetchers outside of the “norm” and that a lot of what we consider beautiful comes from growing up with and being told what it is.
It’s funny… I think a woman’s personality has a lot to do with how good they look. I know some women who wouldn’t look nearly as good if they lost weight. The extra baby fat really… kind of… works for them, because of their personalities. There are some slender women I think are pretty too, just because they seem to know themselves and their body better.
I also like a few weird things: SNORING! GEEKY glasses! Plain! Someone who gets a runny nose in the cold (I’m serious… pretty f*cked huh?) No Makeup! All that and I don’t even THINK about chest sizes (no real preference, although I don’t like them that big). Some like more flat chested women (they’re in the closet) and some like XX large.
Now I know there’s a scientific reason why we have a general type of beauty… has to do with reproduction. But I don’t think that science works for everyone. After all gays and lesbians stand no chance of reproducing (without help), yet they are out there.
About fifteen years ago, I actually met Yoko and had the opportunity to sit down and chat with her for 10 or 15 minutes. She was remarkably engaging and perceptive, and in the course of our conversation mentioned something that had occured at my undergraduate school that I had forgotten about.
Lennon had been one of my heroes, so far be it from me to have questioned why he was so devoted to Yoko. But like many others, I, rather shallowly, had always thought of her as “that woman who broke up the Beatles.” I don’t know why I was surprised to discover that she was so charming, but she was.
I actually think she looks much better now than she did then.
But I’m wierd.
John was married to Cynthia when he met Yoko in 1966. But he married her because he knocked her up, and he felt like it was his duty to marry her. I can’t imagine they had much of a life together. He left right after they got married to go on a trip to Spain (without her) and then begin touring. In a way, he never really came back. Their marriage was doomed from day one. Which is really sad because Cynthia loved him, and of course, it really hurt Julian.
I’d just like to thank Sam for not letting our host weasel out of his position as though it was never his position to begin with.
Putz.
When I read the Playboy interviews with Lennon, right before his death, I remember how he kept saying that he and Julian were finally beginning to reconcile. That makes it all the more tragic, especially when you consider that Julian is VERY bitter towards his father-even today.
He was referring to a hypothetical, single, “most beautiful woman in the world”.
Personally, I always envied Paul’s relationship with Linda. And talk about being able to get any woman in the world, but settling for the one he loved, who may not have been the most incredible beauty to grace the earth.
And it’s about time that Mafeking was relieved. Heh-heh.
I couldn’t find the exact quote, but I think that John once said that everyone he knew when he met Yoko treated him as if he was “Elvis Beatle”. Yoko was the first woman he met who related to him as a human being.
To all of the Yoko haters: Paul admitted that it was his jealousy of Yoko getting John’s attention, after Paul and John developed the most successful songwriting group in history, that eventually caused the breakup of the Beatles. It culminated into some really bad blood between him and John. The two reconciled before John’s death. I believe that also tried to reconcile with Yoko during negotiations for the Northern Songs catalog, but Yoko, unsure whether Paul was sincere or just wanted financial backing for his bid, held off until Michael Jackson won the rights.
Well, that points more to it being PAUL’s problem, and not Yoko herself.
When I first started seeing my husband, my sister hated him. He hated her. They were constantly fighting and bickering. Both of them drove me crazy. Finally I informed them that there was enough of me to go around, and they really didn’t need to carry on like small children. After a few years they learned to share, and now they are good friends.
My point? Paul basically had John to himself since they were children. They were best friends, collaborators, probably as close to each other as any brothers. And then John had to run off and fall in love with Yoko. It wasn’t Paul’s problem. It wasn’t Yoko’s problem. It was their problem. Unfortunately neither one could suck it up and deal with it.
Um, you seem to have misread the post. The line you’re complaining about is this:
“…but the most beautiful woman in the world will make your life hell if she’s a horrible person…”
Re-read that a few times and I think you’ll understand your mistake.