‘Moon Bermuda’ On John Lennon In Bermuda
Bermuda native Rosemary Jones recently released a full-colour guide to our island and its history dubbed Moon Bermuda, bringing together a wide variety of information that promises to familiarize readers with a range of knowledge pertinent to Bermuda, suitable for travel junkies, history buffs, and anyone with a taste for natural beauty.
Following below in an excerpt from the book that focuses on John Lennon’s visit to Bermuda in 1980:
Bermuda has reestablished a fascinating connection with John Lennon’s legacy. The former Beatle spent the final summer of his life on the island—a two-month sojourn in June and July 1980that’s been credited as a creative reawakening of the star who had stepped away from his career in 1975 to spend time raising his son Sean with Yoko Ono in New York.
Lennon sailed to Bermuda from Newport, Rhode Island, on a storm-wracked sailboat, landing in St. George’s before he rented a home in Fairylands, Pembroke. Ending a creative dry spell, he began to write again and during a visit to the Botanical Gardens, he was inspired by a flower bed sign bearing the fanciful name of a freesia—“Double Fantasy.”
The moniker would become the title of his comeback album, recorded in New York just three weeks before he was fatally shot on December 8, 1980, on the sidewalk outside his Upper West Side apartment.
By: Rosemary Jones
Source: Forever Bermuda
