John Lennon

You'd go over to the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Hollywood every night and there would be myself, Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees, Bernie Taupin, Keith Moon and Harry ...

On March 13th, 1973, Lennon and Nilsson got loaded in the Vampire Club and decided to wander over to the Troubadour, where Lennon decided to stick a maxi-pad to his forehead, much to the bemusement of the waiting staff. Lennon would later calm down somewhat, joining Yoko Ono in a programme of Primal Scream Therapy and generally attempting to humble himself to the American public. He was also still reeling from the world’s reaction to his album with Yoko Ono, Some Time In New York City, featuring the rightly-panned track ‘Woman is the N* of The World’. Left to his own devices, Lennon became a rather chaotic personality, taking to the Brandy Alexanders like a fish to water. The Beatles had recently parted ways, and he was in the midst of various legal battles with the band’s shady manager Allen Klein. [According to founder Alice Cooper](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/alice-cooper-drinking-with-john-lennon/), the original Hollywood Vampires was a sort of drinking club, “a last-man-standing kinda thing.