मैगज़्टर गोल्ड के साथ असीमित हो जाओ

मैगज़्टर गोल्ड के साथ असीमित हो जाओ

10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं, समाचार पत्रों और प्रीमियम कहानियों तक असीमित पहुंच प्राप्त करें सिर्फ

$149.99
 
$74.99/वर्ष
The Perfect Holiday Gift Gift Now

JOHN AND YOKO BECAME THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Daily Express

|

September 20, 2025

WHILE Mintz found Yoko the easier of the two and the one he was closer to, John was the most fun.

“He had moments of great humour and naughtiness, although there were times he would be shouting obscenities,” he explains. “Yoko was definitely more gentle and calmer.”

While he insists he was never starstruck and was more of an Elvis than a Beatles fan growing up in New York, Mintz admits he was nervous ahead of his first interview with the singer, which took place on John’s 30th birthday and was arranged by Yoko.

However, despite Lennon’s superstar status, Mintz found him to be “friendly and completely normal”. The musician told him: “I think I’m the happiest I've ever been. I have Yoko, and that’s all that really matters to me.”

But, soon after the interview, the book details how Lennon rang Mintz, desperate to score some drugs - well, diet pills.

“They thought that everybody in Hollywood was slim and trim and that there were magic diet pills and insisted I get that for them,” he writes.

“John had struggled his whole life with his weight. He used to joke that back when they filmed Help! he was in his ‘fat Elvis’ period: he was very self-conscious about that and took it very seriously. He’d tried every fad diet in the world and was clearly open to any other new weight-loss methods that came along.”

Yoko was equally fixated with her weight, according to Mintz, who said the couple arranged their vast closet around their fluctuating sizes.

He last saw Yoko at her 90th birthday two years ago and says she remains “beautiful and coiffed as ever”.

But he doesn’t know if she has read his book or whether she approves of his revelations, despite the book being her son Sean’s idea.

Sean, 49, said: “The reason I wanted Elliot to write a book, first and foremost, is that he’s a good storyteller. The fact that he was there in the lives of John and Yoko (and mine), is really just icing on the cake.”

Daily Express से और कहानियाँ

Daily Express

AJ pays respects to tragic friends at funeral home

Boxer's farewell to two pals killed in Nigeria car crash

time to read

1 mins

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Daily Express

Reform start off 2026 as the ones to watch

REFORM UK begins the new year in the same commanding position that it started 2025.

time to read

2 mins

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Man spared jail for 248th crime is held 2 days later

A MAN spared a jail term for his 248th crime was arrested two days later for committing his 249th offence.

time to read

1 min

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

WORLD OF SPORT Aryna's revenge

ARYNA SABALENKA wants revenge over Nick Kyrgios for her 'Battle of the Sexes' straight-sets defeat in Dubai.

time to read

1 min

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Daily Express

Foy on parenting and hating social media

THE CROWN's Claire Foy may have blossomed on the world stage but she struggles to juggle her roles as a mum and a Hollywood star.

time to read

1 min

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Law denied Mum her birthday wish to die with dignity

MY MUM'S name was Kate Bilderbeck and her 59th birthday wish was to die.

time to read

3 mins

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Mahmood does have the power to deport ‘hate tweet’ dissident

HOME Secretary Shabana Mahmood does have the power to deport Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah, according to legal experts.

time to read

2 mins

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

GARNER PRAISED

EVERTON'S James Tarkowski reckons James Garner \"can do absolutely everything\" after his goal and assist in a man-of-thematch display in the 2-0 win at Nottingham Forest.

time to read

1 min

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

Daily Express

David's olive branch message to Brooklyn

SIR David Beckham has posted an old photo of himself with estranged son Brooklyn and captioned it: \"I love you all so much.

time to read

1 mins

January 02, 2026

Daily Express

FRANKLY BORING!

Dull affair for Thomas on Bees return

time to read

2 mins

January 02, 2026

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size