EAN: 9780060754020

JOHN LENNON - PHILIP NORMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

For more than a quarter century  Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been
unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now  at last  Norman turns his
formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was
never enough. Drawing on pre-viously untapped sources  and with unprecedented access to all the
major characters  here is the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is
ever likely to be published. 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
extra-ordinary 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 before?and Yoko Ono  who speaks
with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John. 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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