Being John Lennon: a restless life
An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking...
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| Zusammenfassung: | An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a troubled life, from that of the cast-aside child of a broken wartime marriage to his murder by a deranged fan, Being John Lennon analyses the contradictions in the singer-songwriter's creative and destructive personality. A leader who could be easily led, he was often generous and often funny, but sometimes scathingly cruel. As a journalist, author Ray Connolly had a close working relationship with Lennon, and the entire Beatles coterie. In this biography he unsparingly reassesses the chameleon nature of the perpetually dissatisfied star who just couldn't stop reinventing himself. Drawing on many interviews and conversations with Lennon, his first wife Cynthia and second Yoko Ono, as well as his girlfriend May Pang and song-writing partner Paul McCartney, this complex portrait is a revealing insight into a restless man whose emotional turbulence governed his life and talent |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 448 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts |
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Foreword xiv
1 I forgot about my father 1
2 I was aggressive 8
3 The sort of gang I led 16
4 I must be a genius 21
5 Nobody was fighting 28
6 The way I looked 36
7 What s so sad about the past 44
8 Paul looked about ten 51
9 The copper came to the door 59
10 The underlying chip on my shoulder 62
11 It was terrible 67
12 I ruined his life! 74
13 This guy who had a drum kit 82
14 I grew up in Hamburg 86
15 Women should be obscene and not heard 92
16 Is this what I want to do? 97
17 You d call them groupies now 104
18 I wasn t too keen on reaching twenty-one 108
19 We were in a daydream 112
20 I was the closest to Brian 118
21 I looked up to Stu 125
22 Cyn s having a baby 130
23 I had to do the talking 138
24 We sang for twelve hours 146
25 The holiday was planned 154
26 I play a guitar, too . . / 160
27 This isn t show business 168
28 We just walked through it 172
29 A Hard Day s Night 177
30 A rock and roll musician 184
31 We were like Kings of the Jungle 190
32 Once you plug in and the noise starts 201
33 Nowhere Man 209
34 We re more popular than Jesus 212
35 It s like we re four freaks being wheeled out 218
36 Our lives had been threatened 223
37 An imaginary nail 226
38 Strawberry Fields Forever 232
39 Mick Jagger wears a codpiece 238
40 I was scared 245
41 I am the egg man 250
42 Flying on a magic carpet 258
43 I think I m Jesus Christ 266
44 Someone as barmy as I am 270
45 Get your drums out 274
46 You re not worth any more 279
47 My prick on an album 287
48 We hope we passed the audition 293
49 It was Yoko that changed me 299
50 I m leaving the Beatles 307
51 A crutch for the world s social lepers 314
52 Free means free’ 320
53 I might just as well have been a comedian 327
54 The radicalism was phoney 334
55 ‘Imagine’ is anti-religious 340
56 New York is at my speed 347
57 Don’t fuck with my ears 356
58 To finish off. . . we thought we d do a number 363
59 If I began writing with Paul again 370
60 I ve battled all the monsters 374
61 A second chance 378
62 Wanting to make music 386
63 Playing guitar and singing 394
64 I don t believe in dead heroes 401
Afterword 404
After John died what happened to . . . 407
John Lennon s best recordings 410
Bibliography 413
Acknowledgements 415
Notes 416
Picture credits 436
Index 437
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