By Ray Coleman
Date: 14 January 2000

Johnandyoko

"Around this time I met John. The first song
we recorded on 'Approximately Infinite Universe'
was 'Song for John.' It was a song I made actually
before I met him. I was hoping to find somebody
who'd fly with me, or whatever, and I made a demo
record. It's the first demo of mine that John
listened to when he visited me and that's why,
for sentimental reasons, I called it 'Song for
John.' It's the same tune, same lyrics."
  The Lennons at home were much more traditional
as husband and wife than their public face
indicated. "There's nothing I like more,"
John told the *Melody Maker*,"than to get
home at the end of the day and sit next to
Yoko and say,"Well, we're together at last."
Although we may have been holding hands all day,
it's not the same when we're working or talking
to the Press. We feel a hundred miles apart by
comparison."
  Yoko confessed that she was lonely before she
met John. "Most people in the world are very
lonely. That's the biggest problem," she said.
"Because of their loneliness, they become
suspicious. When I met John I started to
open up a little, through love, you know,
and that's the greatest thing that happened 
to me yet....I never met anybody else who
could understand me. We understand each other
so well and I'm not lonely any more. Through
loneliness, I was starting to become a very
firm and strong ego. That's melting away and
that's nice."
  John described his pre-Yoko loneliness this
way: "I didn't have full communication with
anybody and it took a bit of adjusting. She
re-discovered or cultivated the thing that
existed in me before I left Liverpool, maybe,
and re-cultivated the natural John Lennon that
had been lost in the Beatles thing and the
world-wide thing. She encouraged me to be
myself because it was me she fell in love
with, not the Beatles or whatever I was.
When you get sidetracked you believe it, and
when you're in the dark you believe it. She
came and reminded me that there was light
and when you remember there's light you don't
want to get back in the dark again."