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John was standing at a crossroad, discontent with his dream of rock-’n’roll stardom. “I was so fed up I didn’t bother to contact the others for a few weeks,” he says in The Beatles Anthology. “A month is a long time at 18 or 19; I didn’t know what they were doing. I just withdrew to think whether it was worth going on with. … I thought, Is this it? Nightclubs and seedy scenes, being deported, and weird people in clubs? ” The situation was problematic. He was emotionally and mentally drained from years of piling disappointments—the death of his mother, the abandonment by his father, dropping out of college, two dramatically disappointing tours, and the dismal retreat of his band.
One day—by one means or another,’ he said more than once, ‘we’ll have a record in the charts. If we have to be bent or con people, then that’s what we’ll have to do to get there. It doesn’t matter what it takes to get to the top. ” Likewise, Beatles biographer Hunter Davis writes that John told him, “I had to be a millionaire. If I couldn’t do it without being crooked, then I’d have to be crooked. ” At the end of 1960, something big was soon to happen, something that would change the course of music history.
Upon the band’s arrival in Germany, they were met at the airport by photographer Astrid Kirchherr. She bore bad news: Stuart Sutcliffe, one of their founding members and John’s best friend, had died the night before of a brain hemorrhage. For John, it was digging up old bones and ghosts from the past. ” Either way, his behavior in Hamburg was as coarse and avenging as ever. In the book The Lives of John Lennon, author Albert Goldman describes John’s antics on April 20, Good Friday (the day that marks Jesus’ crucifixion).