article_snippet.sent: Cynthia Lennon was 75.
article_snippet.sent: John and Cynthia Lennon were married for six years, from 1962 to 1968.
article_snippet.sent: John and Cynthia Lennon met at art school, where Cynthia studied to be an illustrator and John practiced painting -- in between concerts with a band that would become the Beatles.
article_snippet.sent: When John and Cynthia Lennon were at art college, I think Her son Julian Lennon was more interested in the music than Her son Julian Lennon was in the art," she told ClassicBands.com.
article_snippet.sent: The two married in 1962, just as the Beatles were making the Beatles rise.
article_snippet.sent: the Beatles son, Julian, was born April 8, 1963.
article_snippet.sent: Lennon's sometimes-brittle personality and Lennon overwhelming fame became a challenge for Cynthia.
article_snippet.sent: Cynthia was threatened by fans and occasionally in danger of being left behind in the band's whirlwind; when the group traveled to Bangor, Wales, to meet with the Maharishi in 1967, Cynthia was caught in a scrum and couldn't make the train in time.
article_snippet.sent: Cynthia was also there on the 1965 night George Harrison, Patti Boyd and Lennon were dosed with LSD -- an experience Cynthia disliked -- and traveled to India with the band in early 1968.
article_snippet.sent: The couple divorced in 1968, by which time John was seeing Yoko Ono.
article_snippet.sent: Cynthia Lennon married three more times after John and wrote two books about Cynthia Lennon marriage to the Beatle, "A Twist of Lennon" and "John.
article_snippet.sent: Cynthia Lennon had no contact with the surviving members of the band until meeting up at the 2006 Las Vegas premiere of "The Beatles Love.
article_snippet.sent: For all the difficulties and disappointments -- Cynthia Lennon described Julian, for whom Cynthia Lennon wrote "John," as "very scarred by life" -- Cynthia Lennon acknowledged that the whirlwind could also be enthralling.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cynthia Lennon was John Lennon's first wife .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Cynthia Lennon was there during the rise of the Beatles .
  