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[117] [note 15] In his book The Lives of John Lennon, author Albert Goldman interprets the story as relating to Lennon's feelings about his wife Cynthia and Mimi. [ 179 ] Sauceda and Ingham comment that the book includes several references to "cripples", Lennon having had developed phobias of physical and mental disabilities as a child.
John is a 2005 book by Cynthia Lennon about the life of her first husband, musician John Lennon, [2] as well as her own life. First published by Hodder & Stoughton, [3] the book chronicles her relationship with Lennon prior to, during, and after his period as a member of the Beatles, including the birth of their son Julian Lennon, her and John's divorce, John's subsequent remarriage to Yoko ...
The book disputes the official view of Lennon as a contented househusband raising his son Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business. Instead, Nowhere Man portrays Lennon's daily life at the Dakota as that of a "tormented superstar, a prisoner of his fame, locked in his bedroom raving about Jesus Christ, while a retinue of servants tended to his every need."
A controversial book about The Beatles is shining a light on the band’s most contentious years.. The Love You Make was first published in 1983, having been written by Steven Gaines and Peter ...
Yoko Ono Sean Lennon and John Lennon in 1977 For Sean, overseeing these projects transcends family duty. Sifting through the archive helps him make a mosaic of the man he barely got to know from ...
Mind Games (1973), Lennon's first self-produced album, marked a return to introspective songwriting, featuring love songs, hard rockers, and bouts of humour. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Walls and Bridges (1974), recorded during his 18-month separation from Ono, features rock and pop songs that reflected Lennon's feelings at the time, as well as contributions ...
The book goes into detail about the long-rumoured homosexual affair between Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein (previously discussed in both Pete Shotton’s Lennon in My Life and Peter Brown's The Love You Make), as well as alleging several liaisons by Lennon with other men, including a claim that he solicited underage male prostitutes in Thailand.
Those hopes were crushed when John Lennon was murdered on Dec. 8, 1980 — but now a final, Lennon-penned Beatles song, “Now and Then,” provides a glimpse of what could have been.