5/27/2023 0 Comments John lennon the life philip normanLennon was traumatized by Julia’s death in 1958, when he was 17. He was raised by his Aunt Mimi after his father left, while his mother Julia lived nearby with her lover. The author, who is also a veteran novelist ( Everyone’s Gone to the Moon, 1996, etc.), tries to compensate by giving an in-depth account of Lennon’s early years, stressing the lifelong rage and fear of abandonment instilled by familial instability. Norman wrote one of the first and still one of the best Beatles histories ( Shout!, 1981), and though he claims to have corrected many “inaccuracies and misjudgments” from that earlier work, there just isn’t much new to say about the group’s historic, hysterical popularity or John Lennon’s role in it. Comprehensive biography of the Beatles’ most outspoken and controversial member, whose murder by a demented fan in 1980 only added to his legacy.
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