Julia lennon died9/13/2023 She put on weight and began to drink everyday. I couldn't go down to the creek with the other kids." His father talked about Elvis's close relationship to his mother "after his son became famous, almost as if it were a source of wonder that anyone could be that close."ĭuring Presley's rising career, Gladys became despairing, depressed and lonely and began to neglect her health. According to Elaine Dundy, "it was agony for her to leave her child even for a moment with anyone else, to let anyone else touch Elvis." Presley himself said, "My mama never let me out of her sight. Presley even shared his mother's bed "up until Elvis was a young teen", simply because the family was so extremely poor that they couldn't afford the luxury of two beds. "She was the number-one girl in his life, and he was dedicating his career to her." Throughout her life, "the son would call her by pet names", and they communicated by baby talk. In a newspaper interview with The Memphis Press Scimitar, Elvis himself was open about the close relationship to his mother. What we do know suggests that temperament was not a pleasant one when he was violent. I took that to mean his temperament and intensity were extreme. The interviewer asked a fairly innocuous question ie.- "what was John really like". However I always remember George being interviewed on Australian TV, not long after Lennon's murder. Whether all this really started after his mum died (also traumatically) I don't know. All those issues raised in the above post would have contributed to that I think. And pretty extreme violence for a nice middle class boy. However we know that after Lennon's broken childhood and early to mid teenage years, he became a violent man. And some less than great minds as well It also lead him to be on the right side of the important polemical issues of his times. But his intelligence led him to recognise other great minds in other fields. That's why he was a greater songwriter than political thinker. ![]() ![]() I think it came from his intelligence, and he channeled that into mastering the song forms of the day and then advancing them. ![]() I don't think Lennon's talent came from his pain.
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