If she’s still with us, the blonde in John Lennon’s arms is probably around 80, give or take. If Mark David Chapman hadn’t come along, Lennon would be 85 today.
Notice the almost total lack of similarity between the very young Paul McCartney (born in June 1942, 22 when this shot was snapped in March ’65) and the about-to-turn-30 Paul Mescal, who has a hawk nose, a pointy chin and tufts of gray in his hair.
The Marietta hotel (Ringstrasse 8, Obertauern, Austria) is still a going concern, although it’s now called [PLACES] Obertauern by Valamar.
John Lennon quotes from his 12.70 Rolling Stone interview, eight months after the Beatles broke up:
“The circle around the band was a portable Rome of money, sex and drugs…when we hit a city we really hit it, and everyone wanted in.
“Don’t take away our portable Rome, where we can all have our houses and our cars, our lovers and our wives, and our office girls and parties and drink and drugs.”
“If we couldn’t land groupies, we hired whores…whatever was going.
“There were photos of me crawling round on my knees coming out of whorehouses in Amsterdam with people saying ‘good morning, John.'”
