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Julia Baird, sister of John Lennon , has published in Spanish her memoirs 'Imagine this' (Teófilo Editions) in which she tells her experiences since childhood with the musician - brother by the same mother, Julia Lennon - and also the later moments in which the 'beatle' had already achieved fame.

One of them occupies the relationship he had with the musician's wife, Yoko Ono , of which Baird speaks at various times, such as the telephone conversations he was trying to have with his brother and could not. "It seemed to me that she was controlling her life and he also seemed to be allowing it," according to Europa Press from fragments of her book.

" When John called me, I was always there. When I called him, however, I couldn't always talk to him . Yoko answered often. And as time went by and John's calls stopped, it was impossible for us to locate him. In fact, I wondered, did John ever pick up the phone in his own house or did Yoko walk with him in his pocket? "Baird asks.

The musician's sister insists on this episode to highlight how John "was separating", although with the distance he has realized that Yoko's influence was very great. " We thought it was he who was separating, but now I'm not so sure . After a series of calls and letters in 1975, Jackie - another sister - and I had been forgotten at a stroke," he laments in the text.

The last passage of the book in which Yoko Ono is spoken of is that of the artist's Liverpool house inheritance, which "had become a symbol of recognition" by John Lennon that Jackie and Julia herself were her sisters. " Yoko's lawyer told me that the house was his and he could do with it what he wanted, and that is what he had done," he recalls.

"However, he also said that if Jackie and I needed help, Yoko could be willing to help us. I replied that I wasn't asking Yoko for money. I just wanted the value of the house, because it was a symbol. I didn't know anything else," the author laments in her book.

During the presentation of the book in Madrid, accompanied by Javier Gurruchaga, Baird explained the origin of the book, a documentary broadcast by the BBC about John Lennon that told "details that had never happened." "I called the producer and told him that this documentary was pure fantasy, but he didn't believe me and hung up on me," he criticized.

That is why he went to the editor of Liverpool's most important newspaper the next day and offered him the version of his story. "I knew that after the documentary, everyone was going to comment on it at the institute of my children and all I wanted to give this version is to protect the second generation," he defended.

In fact, Baird has established a comparison with the Lennon case - which also lost their mother to young people - and the British Royal family . "When I see what just happened to Harry, it's not that he wants to compare us with royalty, but we do share the drama of losing a mother in public and it's a hard thing to carry," he lamented.

Throughout this book, written entirely "away from passion" - "I have only allowed myself the luxury of expressing an emotion or something personal in one part of the book, but I will not say which one," he said--, Baird no avoid some difficult episodes for both her and her brother.

"John called me ... and wanted to know if he talked to his children. Yes, they knew Uncle John. He apologized again and again for not having been in contact and that his life was on track again. He had gone crazy about alcohol and drugs , he told me, but he had left the madness behind, "he says in another passage of the book.

In any case, Baird wanted to make clear his admiration for the 'former beatle', who said that if you want to know his life, "you only need to look at the lyrics of the songs after 'Love me do'". " John was a poet who put lyrics to Paul McCartney's music," he concluded.

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