Located in Fairyland in the Pembroke parish, Undercliff is on the water and is quite secluded. The home overlooks the Great Sound and is due east of Partridge Island, approximately one tenth of a mile away.

With John Lennon looking for more room and more privacy, a real estate found a suitable home in Fairyland Located in the Pembroke parish, it is only a mile west of the city of Hamilton.

To better understand the impact that John Lennon’s time in Bermuda had on him, it’s important to know a bit about the archipelago.

John Lennon arrived in Bermuda on Wednesday, June 11, 1980, after a week at sea. The Megan Jaye and its crew arrived in St. George’s Harbor.

John Lennon’s sailing trip to Bermuda in June of 1980 and the storm that he and the crew encountered had a profound impact on him.

As the storm that engulfed the Megan Jaye subsided, John Lennon and the rest of the crew talked about life at sea. The discussion made its way into one of Lennon’s lyrics.

With the rest of the crew incapacitated and Captain Halsted needing sleep, John Lennon was at the helm of the Megan Jaye in the midst of a serious storm.

On the third day of John Lennon’s sailing trip to Bermuda in 1980, the journey took a turn. There was a storm.

John Lennon had been inspired by his sailing trips around Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor in May of 1980. Soon, Lennon began to envision going on a considerably longer sailing journey. 

Continuing with the origin story of John’s Lennon’s ‘Grow Old With Me,’ Tyler Coneys and Lennon took the sailboat he had purchased from Coneys Marine out onto Cold Spring Harbor. Coneys taught Lennon the fundamentals of sailing for several weeks in May of 1980.

As discussed previously, John Lennon was inspired to learn how to sail after a trip in 1980 on a sailboat named Imagine. He subsequently instructed his assistant to purchase the “‘dumbest’ and simplest” one-sail sailboat.

John Lennon became inspired to learn how to sail after a trip on a sailboat named ‘Imagine’ in Florida in 1980. He subsequently instructed his assistant to buy a simple sailboat. First, however, Lennon would begin his marine adventures with an even more basic boat.

Many are familiar with the story of John Lennon’s sailing trip to Bermuda and stay on the island in the summer of 1980. It relit Lennon’s creative spark, leading to recording songs for ‘Double Fantasy’ and ‘Milk and Honey,’ including ‘Grow Old With Me.’ However, the story of how that journey came to be is less familiar.

I wrote last about John Lennon’s unreleased demo ‘Tennessee,’ inspired by the playwright Tennessee Williams. Lennon subsequently wrote a snippet of another unreleased song called ‘Howling at the Moon,’ playing it on electric guitar.