Jim McCartney encouraged a young Paul to begin playing the family piano and eventually he wrote one of his first songs ‘When I'm Sixty-Four’ on it. Jim McCartney – Paul’s Biological Father and Guardian They had a brief conversation before John ordered Alf and the journalist out of the office. When John arrived, Alf stuck out his hand, but John did not take it. Brian immediately sent for a car to bring John to the NEMS office. While the Beatles were busy filming a scene for ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, Alf walked into Beatles’ Manager Brian Epstein's NEMS office with a journalist, explaining that he was John’s father. He was working as a kitchen porter in Middlesex, UK when someone pointed to a photograph of his son in a newspaper and asked whether the two were related.

Although known as Alf to his family, he released a record and was known in the media as ‘Freddy Lennon’.Īlf made no real attempt to contact John until the height of Beatlemania. They'd go off together, just leaving me a bar of chocolate and a note saying: 'Have a happy day.''Īfter George’s death in 1955, John insisted on wearing a large overcoat that had belonged to him, and even though it became worn and threadbare, he wore it throughout his art college years.Īlfred Lennon known as Alf Lennon and Freddie Lennon, was the biological father John Lennon. Mimi later said: 'John loved his uncle George. George and John had a great relationship, with George often adapting a softer approach to parenting than his wife, John’s Aunt Mimi. John lived with George and Mimi for the majority of his childhood, and George taught John to draw and paint, and bought him his first mouth organ. On 15 September 1939, he married Mimi and bought a semi-detached house called Mendips at 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool. He operated his family's two dairy farms and a retail outlet with his brother, Frank Smith, in the village of Woolton, Liverpool.

George was the maternal uncle, through marriage, of John Lennon. George Smith - John’s Uncle and Legal Guardian However it’s apparent that each of their father figures influenced their love of music in some way or other, and helped shape the path for their journey from schoolboys in Liverpool, to world-renowned musicians. Each member of the band had a difference experience of growing up, Paul and George were raised by their biological fathers whereas Ringo and John were raised by step-fathers.

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