Norman also received assistance from Paul McCartney, Beatles producer Sir George Martin and many other key figures.ĭespite recent protestations by Yoko that Norman is being "mean to John," the book rings true in no small part, thanks to quotes from Lennon's widow.ĭensely detailed, intricately woven and elegantly told, John Lennon: The Life neither condemns nor condones, nor does it consecrate is subject. His definitive biography draws impressively on exclusive and extensive interviews with Yoko Ono and for the first time on the record, their son Sean. Norman, an Englishman who established himself as an authority on the seminal British band with 1981's Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation, has written what amounts to chapter and verse on Lennon. The other is warm and sensitive, a little boy, forever insecure, afraid of losing the people closest to him and finding himself alone.īoth comprise the man who became a legend as a Beatle, a standard-bearer for peace and a martyred hero mourned by millions after he was shot and killed in 1980. One is violent and profane, cruel and misogynistic, prone to unpredictable fits of rage and sick displays of humor. Two incarnations of John Lennon emerge in Philip Norman's already controversial new biography.
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