John Lennon: The Life (Paperback)

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Drawing on previously unknown sources, unpublished letters, and unprecedented access to all the key figures, author and journalist Philip Norman gives us the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.
For this masterpiece of biography, Philip Norman set himself the challenge of looking afresh at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life. He has not just dug deep into the archives, including his own vast collection of tapes and notebooks dating back to the 60s, but spoken to hundreds of witnesses, from every walk of life and every stage of Lennon's. The interviewees include Sean Lennon, whose moving reminiscences reveal his father as never before, and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candour about her marriage to John.
In his brilliant Shout , we were shown a band; in John Lennon, Philip Norman gives us a portrait of a man. It reconciles as never before the contradictions of this endlessly fascinating character-the volatile and violent hippie, the phenomenally wealthy advocate of no possessions, the family man and junkie-and his journey from Liverpool suburbia to becoming one of the presiding geniuses of pop culture.

"From the Hardcover edition."

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Fleshing out one of the most fascinating subjects of his previous book, SHOUT!--appreciated as one of the early, definitive histories of the Fab Four--Philip Norman takes a closer look at the most famous Beatle. Norman spends thoughtful energy on John Lennon's formative years raised by his aunt in his parents' absence, and of course tells the familiar, but always thrilling story of the band's Liverpool beginnings and rise to international cult status. Norman collects interviews from Paul McCartney, George Martin, Yoko Ono (who initially cooperated but eventually pulled her support of the book), and others. From an expert comes this account of the artist, activist, and legend who looms as large as any other in Western pop culture's memory.

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