John Lennon Biography: The Music, The Magic & The Murder

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RAVE REVIEWS

“I’ve always been a huge John Lennon fan, and I love his music. This book has given me a real insight into what made him the success that he was.”

“A revealing biography that gives a concise yet revealing history of the man who changed history with the Beatles, and then as a solo artist.”

“This is both a wonderful and a sad story. Wonderful to think how one person could create so much, and sad to think it all ended so tragically.”

“I have always been interested in the Beatles, especially John, but never new much about him apart from the songs. This book has filled in the gaps.”

“An entertaining read about one of the most amazing people of the 20th century. This kind of thing should be in school textbooks, things that really change the world.”

WHY CHOOSE THIS BOOK?

This is a must read for anyone with an interest in music and the media. If you want to know what made the John Lennon and the Beatles the stars they became, this book will show you:

* how a few ordinary lads from Liverpool became the world’s most famous band
* the amazing path that took them from Hamburg to super stardom
* what made John Lennon such a leader and innovator
* how he became one of the world’s greatest songwriters
* the tragedy and cruelty of his early death

WHAT’S INSIDE?

This book tells you the whole John Lennon story, from birth to death - revealing a host of little-know facts about the legendary musician and songwriter, including:

* the breaks and co-incidences that took them to stardom
* what really went on in the Beatles dressing rooms
* the secrets that John took to the grave with him
* the reasons and twisted logic behind his murder
* the surprising truth behind the Yoko story

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 - The Birth of a Legend
Chapter 2 - Growing Up in Liverpool
Chapter 3 - The Birth of The Beatles
Chapter 4 - The Road To Hamburg
Chapter 5 - On Track For Success
Chapter 6 - Conquering America
Chapter 7 - John Meets Yoko
Chapter 8 - Beyond The Beatles
Chapter 9 - John’s Lost Weekend
Chapter 10 - A New Beginning and a Tragic End

WHY NOW?

As one of the key figures in the history of modern music, John Lennon’s life and legacy are part of our heritage. Get your copy of this book now to find out the truth behind the music, the magic and the murder.

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The John Lennon Letters

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A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter.

John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius.

This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.

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John Lennon: The Life

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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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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life

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In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.

Riley portrays Lennon’s rise from Hamburg’s red light district to Britain’s Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÉ of “Love Me Do” to the soaring ambivalence of “Don’t Let Me Down”; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock ’n’ roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone.

In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.

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In His Own Write

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About The Awful

I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madolf Heatlump (who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn't pass -- much to my Aunties supplies. As a member of the most publified Beatles my (P, G, and R's) records might seem funnier to some of you than this book, but as far as I'm conceived this correction of short writty is the most wonderfoul larf I've every ready.

God help and breed you all.

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Imagine: A Celebration of John Lennon

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Of all John Lennon's songs, "Imagine" has come to represent the man himself. More than any of the great songs he wrote for the Beatles, this gentle, poignant ballad serves as Lennon's epitaph. Published to coincide with the December anniversary of Lennon's death, Imagine offers a collection of words and images which together make an elegant memorial and an evocative gift. 40 duotone photos.

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