Buch JOHN LENNON – THE LIFE

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Mittwoch 1. Oktober 2008: JOHN LENNON

Buch JOHN LENNON – THE LIFE

Autor: Philip Norman. Verlag: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd., England. ISBN-10: 0007197411; ISBN-13: 978-0007197415.

Gebundenes Buch, Hochformat 23,4 cm x 15,8 cm; 704 Seiten; 6 Farb- und 21 Schwarzweiß-Fotos; englischsprachig.

Inhalt:

Part I: The Country Boy / Part II: To The Toppermost of the Poppermost / Part III:  A Genius Of The Lower Crust / Part IV:  Zent Vaudeville / Part V: Pizza And Fairy Tales / Postscript:  Sean Remembers / Acknowledgements / Index.

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This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore—his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. The book’s numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon—whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never seen before—and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John.

“[A] haunting, mammoth, terrific piece of work.” –New York Times

Honest and unflinching, as John himself would wish, Norman gives us the whole man in all his endless contradictions—tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, vulnerable and insecure—and reveals how the mother who gave him away as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the rest of his days.

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