Tracking down the location of the Lennon doorway photo in Hamburg: John Lennon - "Rock 'n"Roll" - 1975 - Apple Records
A few pages of the 20+ page letter John sends Stu, late summer 1961. How long can one go on writing and writing, like you I now don’t really know who I’m writing to or why it’s quiet peculiar. I usually write like this and forget about it but if I put it in a little part of my almost secret self in the hands of someone miles away who will wonder what the hell is going on or just pass it off as toilet paper. Anyway I don’t care really what happens because when I think about it, it’s so bloody unimportant – but what is important who has the right to say that this letter is not important and this is a something any way – anyway – anyway – yeah! I wonder what it would be like to be a cretin or something. I bet it’s gear. & how are you keepin Stuart old chap are you as ok – is life as good – bad ****e, great – wonderful as it was or is it just a thousand years of nothing and coolness on and on and on. I think this is it Goodbye Stu don’t write out of – er what is it? well not because you think you ought to write when you feel like So goodbye (from John you know the one with glasses) ANYWAY BYE BYE see you soon I don’t know why I said that I remember a time when everyone I loved hated me because I hated them so what so what so ****ing what I remember a time when belly buttons were knee high when only ****ting was dirty and everything else clean + beautiful I can’t remember anything without a sadness So deep that it hardly becomes known to me so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own STUPIDITY + so I go rambling on with a hey nonny nonny nonny no.
This one's been previously posted, so apologies for that. Originally, I had this one signed by Michael but it was destroyed in the Northridge quake in '94. Naturally, I was broken hearted. I wrote to Mr. McGear about it. A month or so later, I heard from his U.S. agent who asked me several questions on the phone about where I had obtained the poster. I'm not sure why. She asked for my work address and said "Mike has a present for you". She brought two of the posters to my office, one of which hangs in my l/r. The other one is here sans water mark.
No doubt uzn007, you are absolutely correct. She even asked me to bring the destroyed poster to my office for her to examine which I did. Apparently they did a very small run of the poster in order to promote the exhibit and she was somehow able to account for the majority of the ones that were out there.
Ah, thanks, right. I mixed those two up - the passport is here - photo probably has been taken a short while before (that is if he didn`t have the photo laying around already):
I know this photo is from one of the early tours / concert trips in the UK but it is funny how the petrol pump says Cleveland. Maybe the brand of petrol or the name of a petrol stations chain. Also I got a kick out of what the shop behind them seems to offer: Fa**ot peas? Is this a thing? EDIT: It seems so! Not F... peas but probably F... with peas. ****** (food) - Wikipedia
For me, one of the most treasured aspects of Tune In is that we get so much of Stuart's voice. He sounds as though he is on a different level to the others - and probably most of his contemporaries.
