Yesterday I chanced upon a 1981 recording of an interview with John Lennon's Aunt Mimi that I've never seen before. It's lovely to watch - very moving in a quietly dignified kind of way. I've never put much store in the kind of biographical material that depicts her in a negative light. It was so obvious how much John loved and respected her, and the eight or so minutes of the interview make it abundantly clear why this was the case.
Funnily enough, I think they also tell you a lot about the groundedness of Lennon himself. Yes, he could be daft at times, as can we all, but it's so obvious listening to Mimi where he got his scathing good sense from.
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