Mintz didn’t think this was entirely Lennon’s fault. “John was functionally a child when it came to taking care of himself,” Mintz wrote in his book We All Shine On: John, Yoko ...

John Lennon’s son Julian had a complicated relationship with his father. He was a child when his parents separated, and he scarcely saw Lennon after the divorce. As Julian grew older ...

In August 1971, John Lennon left England on a TWA flight ... “Yoko hasn’t seen her child for two years,” Lennon explains in a 1972 television interview included in the documentary.

“John Lennon is coming to my house today,” Noriko ... “He was very kind to me even though I was such a small child,” she said. “I think it was all the more reason he could spread ...

That morning, I wasn’t sitting still. We were children, but we knew the Beatles. And then, suddenly, there he was: John Lennon. I remember the hush — a collective inhale — and then the whispers.