John Lennon: The Life

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An extraordinarily detailed, vibrant, in-depth account of the life of John Lennon -- the most deeply researched and comprehensive biography to date.
This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of John 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; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; 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, Norman gives readers the whole man in all his endless contradictions.
About the Author
PHILIP NORMAN is an award-winning novelist and biographer who, in 1969 and ’70, was assigned to cover, from the inside, the breakup of Beatles’ own business utopia, Apple Corps. He is the author of 'Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation', 'Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly', and many other books. He lives in London.