John Hall-Stevenson John Hall-Stevenson John Hall-Stevenson (1718–1785), in his youth known as John Hall, was an English country gentleman and writer. He is memorialised as "Eugenius" in Laurence Sterne's novels "Tristram Shandy" and "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy". Hall-Stevenson was the son of Joseph Hall of Durham by his marriage to Catherine, sister and heiress of Lawson Trotter of Skelton Castle at Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire. On 16 June 1735, at the age of seventeen, he matriculated at Jesus College, Cambridge as a fellow-commoner. He quickly struck up a close and lifelong friendship with Laurence Sterne, who was five years older. They
Sentimental Journey (Ringo Starr album) release to promote it – and number 22 in the US. The album sold 500,000 copies in the US, within the first two weeks of release. Among his fellow Beatles, in an interview with BBC Radio's Johnny Moran, George Harrison described "Sentimental Journey" as "a great album" and "really nice". Conversely, John Lennon told "Rolling Stone" editor Jann Wenner in December 1970 that he was "embarrassed" by Starr's debut. Starr later said of "Sentimental Journey": "The great thing was that it got my solo career moving – not very fast, but just moving. It was like the first shovel of