The Lost Weekend
John Lennon in LA
14 min readJan 17, 2019
In the summer of 1973, John Lennon fell into an abyss of self-destructive behavior, drinking and womanizing. It wasn’t about the Beatles’ breakup three years earlier; his troubles were with the United States government, trying to deport him, ostensibly because of a 1968 arrest in the U.K. for hashish possession. But it was more personal. History has it that President Nixon and FBI Director J. Edgar…
