Cynthia Powell Lennon, Graham Chapman and Allan Williams

Posted by Coral Andrews Oct 12, 2008

I met Graham Chapman in 1987 and 1988.

I still take his advice to “ignore all advice” and I don’t “eat anything that stands around in a field chewing cud, but things that run around a lot.”

In another surreal life moment in 1994 I met The Beatles Outside Circle- Cynthia Powell Lennon, Pauline Sutcliffe (the late artist Stuart Sutcliffe’s sister), Pete Best (The First Beatles Drummer), Louise Harrison (George Harrison’s sister) and Allan Williams – The Beatles first manager.

I led an hour long panel discussion with this Fab Five from Early Liverpool to Backbeat.

I had the book Imagine with me, by Andrew Solt and Sam Egan, found a lovely pic of John and Cynthia together in Florida after the first U.S. tour, and asked for a scribble. She wrote - “To Coral with love from Cynthia Lennon. X.”

AND.. I discovered that upon giving Allan Williams BACK his hard cover copy of The Man Who Gave the Beatles Away, that in the soft cover edition (with William’s scribble) there’s an inscription from someone else in Dartmouth, Canada who did the SAME thing.

It says: “To Allan Williams. This is now your copy of YOUR book. Thanks for signing mine. Only one favour. If you ever decide to give it up please let me know. I’ll be damned (insert another expletive here) if I’m going to bid against some bloke in order to buy me own autograph….”

Anyway, To John Lennon and Graham Chapman … I’ve no doubt you like minded wits now hang out in the Hereafter….

Grip Fast

Coral