The Beatles song John Lennon wrote that "didn't mean a damn thing" according to what he told David Sheff in one of his final interviews.

As bandmate Paul McCartney would later note, The Beatles’ John Lennon’s short life was full of tragedy. Brought up in a turbulent family dynamic after his father Alfred left at an early age and his mother Julia let her sister Mary "Mimi" Smith raise him,

The Beatles musician welcomed his first son, Julian, with then-wife Cynthia in 1963 and later welcomed Sean with Yoko Ono