IN HIS OWN WRITE (ROOM 206)
IN HIS OWN WRITE (ROOM 206)
John as a child was forever drawing and writing and he used to keep exercise books full of his work. Some survive today including The Daily Howl, which was John’s record of what was going on in school, together with parodies and skits on his teachers and peers. He later resurrected these skills as a guest contributor to Merseybeat, which followed a similar style of madcap, cynical and extremely funny short essays. A journalist, Derek Taylor, who later became The Beatles press officer, was very impressed by John’s musings and introduced him to Jonathan Cape who quickly snapped John up and published his first book of verse and essays entitled “In His Own Write.” The book received many plaudits and demonstrated a breadth of writing talent that surprised many who had predicted that the band would be five-minute wonders. John was the recipient of many awards and Foyle’s of London organised a luncheon in his honour to celebrate the success of the book. John made a very short acceptance speech, so short in fact it contained just one sentence “Thank you very much you have a lucky face!”
The assembled gathering of glitterati were puzzled, which in turn embarrassed John somewhat, who very hung over and suffering from a terrible headache, had not been briefed that to be honoured in such a way by Foyle’s, it is expected that the recipient should in turn address the audience with a lengthy acceptance speech. John’s drawings (as a ten year old) later adorned the cover of his ‘Walls and Bridges album and in 2006 the only remaining copy of the Daily Howl was sold for a staggering £125,000.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
IN HIS OWN WRITE (ROOM 206)
John as a child was forever drawing and writing and he used to keep exercise books full of his work. Some survive today including The Daily Howl, which was John’s record of what was going on in school, together with parodies and skits on his teachers and peers. He later resurrected these skills as a guest contributor to Merseybeat, which followed a similar style of madcap, cynical and extremely funny short essays. A journalist, Derek Taylor, who later became The Beatles press officer, was very impressed by John’s musings and introduced him to Jonathan Cape who quickly snapped John up and published his first book of verse and essays entitled “In His Own Write.” The book received many plaudits and demonstrated a breadth of writing talent that surprised many who had predicted that the band would be five-minute wonders. John was the recipient of many awards and Foyle’s of London organised a luncheon in his honour to celebrate the success of the book. John made a very short acceptance speech, so short in fact it contained just one sentence “Thank you very much you have a lucky face!”
The assembled gathering of glitterati were puzzled, which in turn embarrassed John somewhat, who very hung over and suffering from a terrible headache, had not been briefed that to be honoured in such a way by Foyle’s, it is expected that the recipient should in turn address the audience with a lengthy acceptance speech. John’s drawings (as a ten year old) later adorned the cover of his ‘Walls and Bridges album and in 2006 the only remaining copy of the Daily Howl was sold for a staggering £125,000.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON
IN HIS OWN WRITE (ROOM 206)
John as a child was forever drawing and writing and he used to keep exercise books full of his work. Some survive today including The Daily Howl, which was John’s record of what was going on in school, together with parodies and skits on his teachers and peers. He later resurrected these skills as a guest contributor to Merseybeat, which followed a similar style of madcap, cynical and extremely funny short essays. A journalist, Derek Taylor, who later became The Beatles press officer, was very impressed by John’s musings and introduced him to Jonathan Cape who quickly snapped John up and published his first book of verse and essays entitled “In His Own Write.” The book received many plaudits and demonstrated a breadth of writing talent that surprised many who had predicted that the band would be five-minute wonders. John was the recipient of many awards and Foyle’s of London organised a luncheon in his honour to celebrate the success of the book. John made a very short acceptance speech, so short in fact it contained just one sentence “Thank you very much you have a lucky face!”
The assembled gathering of glitterati were puzzled, which in turn embarrassed John somewhat, who very hung over and suffering from a terrible headache, had not been briefed that to be honoured in such a way by Foyle’s, it is expected that the recipient should in turn address the audience with a lengthy acceptance speech. John’s drawings (as a ten year old) later adorned the cover of his ‘Walls and Bridges album and in 2006 the only remaining copy of the Daily Howl was sold for a staggering £125,000.
Artwork painted and owned by ©SHANNON