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Kyoko Cox "playing" John Lennon's guitar during the Bed-In for Peace, 1969. — From the book "Power To The People (2025)"

#john lennon #yoko ono #kyoko cox #60s #1969 #my:read #h:q

I think John’s warm relationship with Kyoko had more to do with her being an extension of Yoko at a stage of being newlyweds in love. Kyoko singing ‘John, I wish you were my Dad’ also makes me feel a little ambivalent since it doesn’t seem like something a four/five year old would just say unprompted. And that positive relationship was certainly not an indicator that the problem was he simply needed to have a daughter instead of a son. But this is probably just beating a dead horse at this point as i think you’ve already said what needed to be said it’s just a frustrating topic whenever i see it pop up in fandom.

yeah, i don't disagree with you there anon. i don't feel particularly moved by that recording either, nor feel like it says much of what kind of parent john could have been to her.

my main issue with kyoko being brought up is the focus on wish fulfillment of the parent people believe john could have been with the "right child", instead of thinking of his two sons he had access to.

#creating scenarios of john being the best dad to kyoko based on a handful of times together #but he couldn't even visit his own son back in the UK to know him better #john lennon #kyoko cox #ask ask ask

This post by @bodhbdearg mentions John, Yoko and Kyoko visiting Kyoko’s father Tony Cox in Denmark. Here’s Kyoko’s account of it, in an interview for David Sheff’s 2025 Yoko biography:

Tony had remarried. With his wife, Melinda Kendall, he was staying at a farm in Aalborg, Denmark. Everyone was getting along for the moment, and Tony invited Yoko and John to spend New Year’s 1970 with them. Kyoko has mixed memories of the three weeks in Aalborg. “That was actually one of the better times,” she said. “My mom and dad and stepmother got along. John was great. They all played mah-jongg for hours, made food together—did some kind of juice diet they’d been put on by Dick Gregory. There were no assistants. There were moments we’d all be getting along.” But, she continued, “then there’d be a falling-out about something. Just this up-and-down situation.”

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