The Lives of John Lennon released to the public. Lennon's widow Yoko Ono threatened to sue for libel, claiming the book made her briefly consider suicide, but never pursued any legal action, later explaining that she wanted to maintain a positive attitude and that her lawyers had advised her a civil action would only draw more attention to the book. Lennon's first wife Cynthia Lennon denounced the book, stating "Every single person was annihilated. My mother was called a bulldog and a domineering woman, which was nothing—"nothing"—like my mother. And he called "me" a spaniel. I thought, I'd rather be a spaniel than a Rottweiler,
S.I.R. John Winston Ono Lennon his solo career. Additional importance is that almost all these songs never played live, thus being the only known recording of these songs from him. Lennon also staged a concert tour during his post Beatles career. Elephant's Memory: S.I.R. John Winston Ono Lennon S.I.R. John Winston Ono Lennon is a bootleg album of rehearsals before a concert of British musician John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, recorded in studio in late August 1972. The show would be carried out later in Madison Square Garden with the rock band Elephant's Memory, as part of his two charities concerts ""One to