Before we start a warning, this episode contains swearing and homophobic and anti-Semitic language.

Listener discretion is advised.

Hello and welcome to the third episode of our series on John Lennon.

It's 1966. Lenin is 25 and still married to Cynthia.

Their son Julian is three years old. But he's spending a lot of time in the attic, lost in drug-induced

music experiments or away on tour. That August, the Beatles take off from Heathrow Airport

for a tour of the United States.

They don't know it yet,

but John's big mouth is about to cause big trouble.

And he doesn't know that in three months' time,

he'll meet the woman who will change his life forever. From Wondering Goalhanger, I'm Athwa Hirsch.

I'm Peter Frank O'Pern.

And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women

ever to have lived and asked if they have the reputation that they deserve.

This is John Lennon, episode three.

All you need is love. So the Beatles album, Revolverver is getting pretty ecstatic reaction, but their new material is just far too sophisticated to replicate live.

And in any event, no one's really listening because people are too busy screaming.

It's really affecting their musicianship.

And John Lennon starts to tell audiences,

don't bother listen to our music, we're terrible these days. But playing live tours is what

bands do. So they're heading to the US for an 18 show tour. But as the Beatles touch down in

Chicago, they are nervous. Yeah, so just to recap, Afwa, so five months earlier,

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