When ‘well-meaning friends’ told Cynthia that John and Alma were booking into hotels using aliases such as ‘Mr and Mrs Winston’ – John’s middle name – and even sporting disguises, Cynthia could not have been less surprised.Ĭynthia told me all this when we met in London in 1989, shortly before the opening of her ill-fated restaurant Lennon’s. Cynthia described it to me as ‘a woman’s intuition’, a ‘gut feeling’. They flirted openly with each other, regardless of who else was in the room. There was, she said, an ‘easy intimacy’ between them. I don't believe he was ever happy - and that kills me Her songs were all 1950s America froth like Dreamboat and Sugartime. Born Alma Angela Cohen to a Russian-Romanian Jewish family in London’s Whitechapel, she had her first hit, Bell Bottom Blues, in April 1954 – four years before the death of John Lennon’s mother.Ĭynthia said: ‘She was this typical East End Jewish glamour girl, with a heart of gold, a beehive and these amazing frocks – not the sort of thing I’d ever have been seen dead in myself. She became a household name with the advent of television. She worked out what John needed in a woman, right under my nose, and she reinvented herself.’Ĭogan – known as ‘the girl with the laugh in her voice’ – was the highest-paid British woman entertainer of the 1950s. She wore the trousers and would control and dominate John for the rest of his life. Yoko must have seen her opportunity and seized it. But Alma died and something odd happened to John. ‘She irritated the life out of John to begin with. She was this obsessive fan who’d turn up and follow him around. ‘He met Yoko when he needed to, just a fortnight into his grief. ‘The woman he’d perhaps earmarked to replace his beloved Aunt Mimi in his affections was now lost to him. True love: Cynthia revealed her former husband believed Alma Cogan (pictured with Lennon) was the reincarnation of his mother
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