![]() ![]() And, thanks to a rare interview with Sean Ono Lennon, he turns the postscript into a touching sort of hymn to a lost dad - offered up, with pain we can only guess at, by the little boy who never did get tucked in. Norman coaxes fresh insights out of both Ono and producer George Martin. 22 books based on 3 votes: John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman, The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon, ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE, JAN. Read 499 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. He gently corrects myths that even the singer believed - that his parents never loved or wanted him, for instance - without trivializing the pain Lennon felt, or the shock waves it sent through his life. (Goldman had already roasted Elvis Presley over a spit, and portrayed Lennon as a nasty, bisexual, agoraphobic, anorexic junkie.) Norman, author of the Beatles history Shout!, conjures the singer’s childhood, early years as a Beatle, and marriages in almost novelistic detail. ![]() ![]() writer in England made after Johns book In His Own Write came out. Norman no doubt embarked on his book to balance the hagiographies of Lennon, as well as to exorcise the ghost of the late toxic avenger Albert Goldman, who published his fat, hateful biography, The Lives of John Lennon, 20 years ago. In My Life is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. ![]()
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