[2008-09-08] John Lennon "John Lennon: The Life" paperback book by Philip Norman

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:49 pm

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060754028/?tag=imwan-20

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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.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:19 am

Sir Paul McCartney slams John Lennon 'gay' claims
Former Beatle says there's no truth in new book allegation

September 15, 2008
http://www.nme.com/news/paul-mccartney/39711

Sir Paul McCartney has slammed a new book in which author Philip Norman claims that John Lennon wanted a gay relationship with his Beatles bandmate.

McCartney told The Sun that the claim was untrue and that, despite the fact that he shared a bed with him many times, he only ever saw Lennon get romantic with females.

"I don't think [the gay claims] are true," he said. "John never ever tried anything [on with me], I slept with him a million times.

"I've seen him on tour roaring drunk, out of his mind in the early days before he sobered up and went to rehab. Roaring drunk and it was always with a female, never once [with a man].

"If you've got a little gay tendency and you're roaring drunk, I'd have caught him once."

GoogaMooga · 02 Aug 2006

I still haven't got "Shout!" but I'll be getting both that one and this new definitive book.

Blair G. · 03 Aug 2006

Got this book (in hardcover) for Christmas 2008 and finally got around to reading it this summer; finished it this morning.

There's a lot of stuff in there that I question, some of the speculation and possible connections the author discusses.

Overall I enjoyed it a great deal but am, of course, left saddened.

At the time it was the shock and senslessness of it....now I'm sad and angry at what was taken from his family and the world on Dec.8

[2008-09-08] John Lennon "John Lennon: The Life" paperback book by Philip Norman

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