![]() Her mother died in 1945, and Julia had to take care of her father with help from her oldest sister. He moved his family to the suburb of Wavertree, where they lived in a small terraced house at 9 Newcastle Road near to Penny Lane. Their father, George Ernest Stanley, retired from the Merchant Navy and found a job with the Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association as an insurance investigator. John Lennon would later comment that the Stanley girls were "five, fantastic, strong, beautiful, and intelligent women". Her mother, Annie Jane (née Millward), gave birth to a boy and then a girl, both of whom died shortly after birth. Julia Stanley, later known by the family as Judy, was born at 8 Head Street, Toxteth, South Liverpool in 1914, and was the fourth of five sisters. Biographer Ian MacDonald wrote that she was, "to a great extent . John was traumatised by her death and wrote several songs about her, including " Julia" and " Mother". On 15 July 1958, she was knocked down and killed by a car driven by an off-duty policeman, close to her sister's house at 251 Menlove Avenue. She kept in almost daily contact with John, and when he was in his teens he often stayed overnight at her and Dykins' house. She taught her son how to play the banjo and ukulele. She was known as being high-spirited and impulsive, musical, and having a strong sense of humour. She never divorced her husband, preferring to live as the common-law wife of Dykins for the rest of her life. She then had two daughters, Julia and Jackie, with John "Bobby" Dykins. She later had one daughter after an affair with a Welsh soldier, but the baby was placed for adoption after pressure from her family. ![]() After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister, Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she handed over the care of her son to her sister Mimi. If I remember right, Bob did a first set of some Blonde on Blonde and other ‘electric’ material acoustically, and then a good bit of formerly acoustic stuff with the band, hence Baby Let Me Follow You Down, which ‘Used to be like that…’ (said after he’d done a couple of trills on harmonica) ‘…but now it goes like this.Julia Lennon ( née Stanley 12 March 1914 – 15 July 1958) was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. An amazing night, when I just didn’t understand why ANYBODY could boo or walk out, but it didn’t worry me as I got a seat closer to the stage. ![]() We asked him if we could come up to the room and he shouts down, ‘Y’ ain’t gonna boo me are ya’?’ We tried and failed to get in thru the kitchens…Dylan’s entry on stage, with the lit-up smoke from a cigarette, or sommat, streaming out of his hair as he strode to centre stage was like a lighting bolt. Bob ‘spoke’ to us from a balcony at the Adelphi Hotel overlooking Lime Street. Walked the twelve miles back home that night down the East Lancs road with my bro and a friend, ecstatic. Bob Dylan: 7 essential videos from the 70’s.Bob Dylan live 1970 – 1979 (videos & audio).Bob Dylan: 5 essential videos from the 60’s. ![]() Bob Dylan: Live 1961- 1969 (video & audio).~Clinton Heylin (A Life In stolen Moments) For many years this would be the only official evidence of the power of Dylan & The Hawks in performance. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues A truly demonic “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” … is issued (in mono) as the B-side of “I Wan’t You”.Baby Let Me Follow You Down (Eric von Schmidt).I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met).One of the best concerts I’ve heard from the 66-tour. By this point Dylan’s cawing voice and searing harmonica were both perfectly integrated instruments in amongst those of the Hawks, whose hardwon knowledge of each other’s playing freed them all to ride each moment in a ceaseless interchange of fiery, creative levitation. Play that night’s ‘Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues’. …… that they could go on stage in Liverpool in May 1966-the city that had so recently been the centre of the musical universe- and hurl at their audience rock music a thousand times more sublime, challenging, multi-layered and exciting than anything Liverpudlians had ever heard before? Impossible to say, but easy to prove. Dylan’s vocals, Robbie’s lead guitar playing and Garth’s erie B-3 all seem truly inspired. Perhaps inspired by playing the hometown of the Fab Four, the band is tight and powerful. If not the best sounding recording, Liverpool is as good a performance of the electric set as you will find on the tour.
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