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I taught school for 5 years. He sounds like some of my nightmare students. Literally, the ones I had very bad dreams about and would wake up in a cold sweat.

However, I wonder if the school had had a “gifted and talented” program or the system had a charter school for “creative” students (like the school McCartney performed at in NYC) if John would have been a better, calmer student.

One-size-fits-all education does have it’s limitations.

So how did Brian hold so much sway over John, enough to get him stuffed into one of those matching Beatles suits? Is it because John picked Brian as an authority figure? He wasn’t someone randomly assigned by fate to be an authority figure. Or do I have this bit of Beatles history scrambled up somehow?

meanmistermustard said
From what the other Beatles have said John was quite willing to put on the suits as the leather was old hat and nice crisp suits would get them listened to by stuffy executives who otherwise wouldn’t have listened to the first chord before saying “thanks, we’ll call you”. He later claimed it was a sign they had sold out but he knew fine well that to get anywhere they had to play the game to some level. Same as moving to London from Liverpool.

Aw, that’s sweet. He would do it out of love for his music and wanting to get out to the world. Thanks, JL. You rock!

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainm…..jtjpa.html

Another one of Lennon’s detention sheets is going up for auction.

Auction house Sotheby’s said on Wednesday it would be offering a lined sheet, torn from a 1950s school notebook, listing the 15-year-old Lennon’s detentions for such transgressions as “impertinence” and “not wearing school cap”.

Sotheby’s said the sheet, listing 29 detentions imposed on Lennon between September 1955 and July 1956 at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, was rescued from a bonfire of old school records by an eagle-eyed member of staff in the 1970s.

On one day, September 12, 1955, Lennon received five detentions from two teachers for a range of offences from “no hwk” (homework) to “talk after two warnings” and “further talk”

While the school detention sheet does not record what impertinent things Lennon said to his teachers, it leaves no doubt that the future Beatle was a handful in the classroom.Other listed misbehaviour includes “silly conduct”, “groaning at me”, “foolish remarks”, “very late” and “nuisance in class”, mentioned four times.

The document will be on public exhibition at Sotheby’s in London from September 24 to 28 and will be offered for sale on September 29, with a price estimate of £2000 to £3000 ($4350 to $6500), as part of a “rock and pop” sale.