A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership
with Yoko Ono written by the friend who knew them best In 1972 Elliot Mintz installed a
red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing it meant that either John
Lennon or Yoko Ono—or sometimes both—were calling him. Which they did almost every day for
nearly ten years engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but
consumed him for the better part of a decade. In We All Shine On Mintz—a former radio and
television host in Los Angeles—recounts the story of how their unlikely friendship began and
where it led him over the years revealing the ups and downs of a wild touching heartbreaking
and sometimes shocking relationship. Mintz takes readers inside John and Yoko’s inner sanctums
including their expansive seventh-floor apartment in New York’s fabled Dakota building where
Mintz was something of a semipermanent fixture ultimately becoming the Lennons' closest and
most trusted confidant. Mintz was with John and Yoko through creative highs relationship and
private challenges fascinating interactions with the other former Beatles and the happiest
moment of their lives together the birth of their son Sean. He was also by Yoko’s side during
the aftermath of John’s assassination on the doorstep of the Dakota—not merely a witness to it
all but a key figure in the drama of John and Yoko’s extraordinary lives. We All Shine On
is a must-read for Beatles and Lennon fans offering an up close and intimate view of one of
the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century as well as one of the most fascinating
marriages. But it’s also a relationship story that just about everyone can relate to a tale
about partnership loyalty and trust and most of all the lasting legacy of a true and deep
friendship.
