As he stated to David Sheff in a 1980 interview with Playboy, ”The line says, ‘No just one
I consider is in my tree, I signify it ought to be significant or low, What I’m expressing, in my insecure way, is ‘Nobody appears to be to understand the place I’m coming from.
Even at university I was just ‘Lennon.’ Nobody at any time assumed of me as cuddly!
What no one could potentially have an understanding of was that my
tears were not since I had missed the silly coach, but they ended up expressing
my heartfelt disappointment. Yoko was a incredibly liberated woman,” suggests Pete Shotton, Lennon’s childhood good friend. “She thought of herself, rather rightly, to be as very good as any one else regardless of whether they be male or
woman, and she was damned very well not going to be addressed like a ‘Beatles
lady.’ That was fifty percent the attractiveness of it all:
Someone had stood up to John and claimed ‘No’ to
him! You have to bear in mind that John, like myself,
arrived from a fully male-dominated environment back in Liverpool,” adds Bill Harry, a close friend from art faculty. “The ladies were being usually
quite meek, and many of them would do no matter what the boyfriends mentioned.