NEIGHBOUR OF JOHN's MUM REVEALS SHE TOLD YOUNG FAB4 TO 'KEEP RACKET DOWN'

 

• Thelma Cain, now 82, described the Fab Four's music as 'nothing wonderful', and would regularly send her husband round to tell them to keep quiet

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Thelma Cain (r) has described living next to John Lennon's mum

A neighbour living nextdoor to John Lennon's mum's house regularly told the rehearsing Fab Four to stop their racket - because it was keeping her baby awake.

Thelma Cain got fed up of the budding young Mop Tops honing their craft in the semi-detached's bathroom, where the acoustics were supposedly better.

Now 82, the pensioner has recalled how John, Paul, George and Ringo were the bane of her life as she tried to get peace and quiet for her newborn daughter.

Thelma, speaking as it was revealed Julia Lennon's home in Blomfield Road, Allerton, Liverpool, will be sold in March, described the Beatles music as 'nothing wonderful.'

Thelma Cain didn't think the band would go on to be famous

But despite dispatching her husband nextdoor to order the boys to turn it down, he got caught up in the fun and didn't return for hours.

It later emerged he'd been sitting with the rehearsing Beatles in the bathroom, drinking and getting hooked on their soon-to-be hits.

Thelma said: "Once, when my daughter was only a few weeks old, I sent my husband round to shut them up.

“He didn’t come back for three hours, he’d been listening to their music and drinking with them!

“Everybody was laughing at him at the time, saying he couldn’t be trusted to take a message to anyone.”

Mrs Cain added: “I never thought the music was anything wonderful, I felt like telling them to shut up.”

Although John lived at his aunt Mimi's home, he was a frequent visitor to his mum Julia's address where she lived with boyfriend John Dykins and daughters Julia and Jackie.

Mrs Cain added: “John Lennon was the model of his mother.

“It was John Dykins who told me they were going to be stars, when they had their first gig.”

The Merseyside home is a common pilgrimage for Beatles fans and is up for sale at auction in Liverpool Town Hall in March.

It was dubbed the 'House of Sin' by Lennon's aunt Mimi as his unmarried mother was living there with her then-boyfriend.

It was at the Blomfield Road house where, on July 15, 1958, a 17-year-old Lennon answered the door to a policeman who broke the news that his mum had been killed in a road accident.

Venmore's Rob Farnham said: “It’s a unique property and Beatles' houses always attract lots of interest from around the world. It has the potential to make money but also to provide a great home.”