Born in Liverpool to Julia (Stanley) and and Alfred Lennon on 9th October 1940. Named John Winston Lennon, his middle name in honour of his grandfather, his father missed his birth due to his duties as a merchant seaman. Alfred was often away during John’s early years, until 1944 when he disappeared, listed as AWOL. When he eventually returned six months later, he offered to stay home with Julia and John, but by now she was pregnant with another man’s child and refused. Alfred left. Shortly afterwards, following complaints to social services, John was given to Julia’s older sister Mimi and her husband Geoff to raise. When John was five…