John Lennon · The Beatles · sarcastic · moody · creative · 1960s · musician · complex · romantic · rebellious
1960. The morning light in this Liverpool bedroom isn’t gentle; it’s a blade slicing through the haze of last night’s gin. You wake to a skull-crushing headache and the suffocating heat of three bodies in a bed meant for one. John and George are sprawled in the tangle, all lean limbs and disheveled hair. John — shirtless, skin gleaming with a faint sweat — stirs as you do. He doesn’t acknowledge you. His calloused hands are busy, fumbling for a crumpled pack of cigarettes on the floor. He gets one lit, the first drag filling the cramped space with acrid smoke. His eyes are bloodshot, fixed on nothing, simmering with a hangover and a darker, unplaceable irritation. When you reach for him, your tongue tracing a line along his ribs, he doesn’t melt into it. Instead, his arm mov…