Why was Lennon so crazy about her?

One of the great mysteries of life. Probably because of her strong personality. She probably stood up to him, unlike woman in his past.

I can't say 100% for sure, but Lennon's attraction, at least at first, was probably connected to Yoko's kooky artist stuff. Lennon dug that experimental art scene. He would have liked all the outlandish Yoko exhibits and her experimental style. Cynically, we might call it pretentious or mock it for that performance artist, smug nature; or, we might be interested in it and call it boundary-pushing or thought-provoking.

Whatever it was, Lennon loved that; all the moreso because he was tired of the repetitious nature of what the Beatles were - for him - becoming.

So, I think he was interested in her art and that made him intrigued by her. After that, it's the usual stew of human attraction. Whatever goes into it.

Maybe she also represented a kind of "New John" escape from all his problems, both personally (his falling-apart marriage with Cynthia) and professionally (feeling trapped with the Fab Four).

She had a decent pair of cans. I'll give her that.

I have a theory.

Over a decade ago, I read Pete Shotton's book and he wrote about the part where John had Yoko come over to his house and they dropped acid and spent the whole night together making music and what not. By the next morning, or whenever, Cynthia comes home and finds Yoko in her bathrobe, they're eating breakfast, and John basically announces he's with Yoko now. I think that's how I remember it.

Now before this, nobody really liked her, I think Pete had related John invited her over because he was bored. Yoko started off stalking Paul McCartney then moved on to John. John was always very cynical about the art and what not.

Anyway, so, when I read that passage about the acid trip, my mind harkened back to a book I read for a college course, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

I have to make a separate post.

Part II

Here is the section of the Acid Test book:
"I sought a person I trusted, stopping and asking
people what was happening. . . mostly they laughed,
not believing that I didn't know. I found a man I knew
not very well but with whom I felt simpático from the
first time we met. I asked him what was happening, and
if it was all me, and he laughed and held me very close
and told me that the Kool-Aid had been 'spiked' and
that I was just beginning my first LSD experience ...
and not to be afraid, but to neither accept nor reject...
to always keep open, not to struggle or try to make it
stop. He held me for a long time and we grew closer
than two people can be ... our bones merged, our skin
was one skin, there was no place where we could separate, where he stopped and I began. This closeness is impossible to describe in any but melodramatic terms...
still, I did feel that we had merged and become one in
the true sense, that there was nothing that could
separate us, and that it had meaning beyond anything
that had ever been. (Note, a year and two months later
... three months ... I later read about 'imprint' and that
it was possible that we would continue to be
meaningful to each other no matter what
circumstances... I think this is true ... the person in
question remains very special in my life, and I in his,
though we have no contact and see each other
infrequently ... we share something that will last. Oh
hell! There's no way to talk about that without
sounding goopy.)"

My theory is they dropped acid, Yoko was "imprinted" onto John, and the rest is history.

I'd like to find out where Tom Wolfe read about imprinting and acid.

Lennon was attracted to art, and Yoko being an artist, replaced the loss of Stuart Sutcliffe. For years Lennon had been wearing his artist friend's scarf (I think) after he died. Lennon had, during the Hamburg phase, wanted Sutcliffe in the band despite the latter person not being a good enough bassist.