Being John Lennon: A Restless Life [First Pegasus books hardcover edition] 9781643130538, 9781643130910, 1643130536

An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. Joh

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English Pages xvi, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illlustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Year 2018

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Being John Lennon: A Restless Life [First Pegasus books hardcover edition]
 9781643130538, 9781643130910, 1643130536

Table of contents :
'I forgot about my father' --
'I was aggressive' --
'The sort of gang I led' --
'I must be a genius' --
'Nobody was fighting' --
'The way I looked' --
'What's so sad about the past' --
'Paul looked about ten' --
'The copper came to the door' --
'The underlying chip on my shoulder' --
'It was terrible' --
'I ruined his life!' --
'This guy who had a drum kit' --
'I grew up in Hamburg' --
'Women should be obscene and not heard' --
'Is this what I want to do?' --
'You'd call them groupies now' --
'I wasn't too keen on reaching twenty-one' --
'We were in a daydream' --
'I was the closest to Brian' --
'I looked up to Stu' --
'Cyn's having a baby' --
'I had to do the talking' --
'We sang for twelve hours' --
'The holiday was planned' --
'I play a guitar too ... ' --
'This isn't show business' --
'We just walked through it' --
'A Hard Day's Night' --
'A rock and roll musician' --
'We were like Kings of the Jungle' --
'Once you plug in and the noise starts' --
'Nowhere Man' --
'We're more popular than Jesus' --
'It's like we're four freaks being wheeled out' --
'Our lives had been threatened' --
'An imaginary nail' --
'Strawberry Fields Forever' --
'Mick Jagger wears a codpiece' --
'I was scared' --
'I am the egg man' --
'Flying on a magic carpet' --
'I think I'm Jesus Christ' --
'Someone as barmy as I am' --
'Get your drums out' --
'You're not worth any more' --
'My prick on an album' --
'We hope we passed the audition' --
'It was Yoko that changed me' --
'I'm leaving the Beatles' --
'A crutch for the world's social lepers' --
'Free means free' --
'I might just as well have been a comedian' --
'The radicalism was phoney' --
'Imagine' is anti-religious --
'New York is at my speed' --
'Don't fuck with my ears' --
'To finish off ... we thought we'd do a number' --
'If I began writing with Paul again' --
'I've battled all the monsters' --
'A second chance' --
'Wanting to make music' --
'Playing guitar and singing' --
'I don't believe in dead heroes' --
After John died what happened to ...

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