In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of

Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
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In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.

Riley portrays Lennonâ€™s rise from Hamburgâ€™s red light district to Britainâ€™s Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÃ‰ of â€œLove Me Doâ€ to the soaring ambivalence of â€œDonâ€™t Let Me Downâ€; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennonâ€™s friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock â€™nâ€™ roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone.

In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.
Country USA
Brand Hachette Books
Manufacturer Grand Central Publishing
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-09-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781401324520

Country	USA
Brand	Hachette Books
Manufacturer	Grand Central Publishing
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-09-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781401324520

Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life

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