Odds and Ends

As I do the research I come across interesting bits of information that do not directly have to do with the Paul mystery but are fascinating nevertheless and might fill in a blank for someone else doing research on The Beatles.  So here is the post Odds and Ends, where I'll put those tidbits I find.  Here are three I've found to start----

1.)  I was looking at the England & Wales Death Index 1916-2006 with the off chance that one of The Beatles not known as officially dead might have had his death index entry transcribed there.  I found the following:
                         Name:                             John Ono Lennon  [!!!]
                         Birth Date:                      27 Aug 1965
                         Date of Registration:      Jan 1996
                         Age at Death:                  30
                         Registration district:        Portsmouth
                         Inferred County:              Hampshire
                         Register Number:            E48A
                         District and Subdistrict:  4971E
                         Entry number:                 234
I could speculate on this, but I haven't done enough research on name changing to know how easy or difficult it is for anyone to change his or her name in England.  I did  look in the England & Wales Birth Index and didn't find a John Ono Lennon listed.  There is a possibility that our John and Yoko Ono had a son in 1965, but I don't have the time to track this down.  For someone who does, happy hunting!

2.)  There has been alot of speculation on one of the Paul-Was-Replaced boards about the egg-shaped trophy on the cover of the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
On the diagram on the right it's the little figure below and between the drum (#81) and the bust of the man (#78) and right above the "L" in "BEATLES".  I was reading The Beatles:  The True Beginnings by Roag, Pete, and Rory Best, and on p. 173 they have a photo of the "trophy" and they identify it as a Cash Box International Award and say it was given to Mona Best (their mother) as a thank-you gift by John Lennon.                                  

3.)  Brian Epstein (the manager of The Beatles, in case you don't know) went to see a Dr. John Flood, a psychiatrist, on June 8, 1967.  Dr. Flood admitted him to a hospital in Roehampton, England, gave him antidepressant drugs, and--on Epstein's release from the hospital two weeks' later--gave him prescriptions for Tryptizol and Carbrital.  The bromide in the Carbrital built up in Epstein's system and caused his death on August 27, 1967.  I wanted to know what happened to Dr. Flood and found his obituary in the British Medical Journal of August 16, 1980 (p. 513):

"Dr. Flood fought a long illness with courage and it was tragic that he should have been stabbed by intruders in his own home four days before his elder daughter's wedding earlier this year." [!] 

I haven't tried to track the incident down any further, but someone else might want to.