Book Description
"Autobiographical essays that explore how John Lennon and The Beatles influenced the intellectual and artistic development of the author. Explores the musical, cultural, and personal aspects of intense music fandom"--
Author : Sibbie O'Sullivan
Publisher : Mad Creek Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814255667
"Autobiographical essays that explore how John Lennon and The Beatles influenced the intellectual and artistic development of the author. Explores the musical, cultural, and personal aspects of intense music fandom"--
Author : Yoko Ono
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060594551
"And, for the first time, renowned photographer Annie Liebovitz presents every frame of the historic last session with John and Yoko."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0670059544
A biography of John Lennon from his turbulent childhood to rebellious rock'n'roll teen to writing and recording with the Beatles to life with Yoko Ono.
Author : Robert Hilburn
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 160529165X
Robert Hilburn's storied career as a rock critic has allowed him a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the most iconic figures of our time. He was the only music critic to visit Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. He met John Lennon during his lost weekend period in Los Angeles and they became friends. Bob Dylan granted him his only interviews during his "born-again" period and the occasion of his 50th birthday. Michael Jackson invited Hilburn to watch cartoons with him in his bedroom. When Springsteen took to playing only old hits, Hilburn scolded him for turning his legendary concerts into oldies revues, and Springsteen changed his set list. In this totally unique account of the symbiotic relationship between critic and musical artist, Hilburn reflects on the ways in which he has changed and been changed by the subjects he’s covered; Bono weighs in with an introduction about how Hilburn’s criticism influenced and altered his own development as a musician. Corn Flakes with John Lennon is more than about one man’s adventures in rock and roll: It’s the gripping and untold story of how popular music reshapes the way we think about the world and helps to define the modern American character.
Author : John Lennon
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316200816
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.
Author : Nigey Lennon
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0983488401
Since his untimely death from prostate cancer in 1993, the legend of iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has continued to grow. The years following his passing have seen the publication of numerous books, both sacred and profane, which examine his life and work, but the best, and only, up-close-and-personal account of the man and his music remains the original: Nigey Lennon’s Being Frank: My Time with Frank Zappa. Musician/author Lennon maintained a personal and professional relationship with Zappa during the period which is generally agreed to have been the composer’s most creative, and she invests her recollections with considerable musical and emotional insight. The fact that Lennon is an accomplished musician and composer in her own right enables her to perceptively analyze Zappa's complex music, and her previous experience as a biographer of Mark Twain and Alfred Jarry is evident as she examines the complex conditions of Zappa's turbulent life. But above all, Being Frank is simply a great read: filled with wry humor, poignancy, and, of course, a plethora of the juicy road stories that Zappa himself didn't dare to include in his own autobiography. The e-book edition of Being Frank is certain to find a new audience for this classic title, which has been in great demand since its third print run sold out several years ago. “Irreplaceable...is the word to describe Being Frank...[Lennon's] memoir is both spiky and musically literate...Lennon’s previous books were on Mark Twain and Alfred Jarry, which indicates the kind of cultural perspective required to get a grip on Zappa: something brighter than rock-journo pedantry.” –Ben Watson, author of Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
Author : J. Robert Lennon
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1458758443
Eric Loesch, a private man with a shadowy past, returns to his hometown in rural New York, where he purchases a dilapidated house that he begins to renovate with steely determination. The adjacent woods on his property seem to beckon him, and he soon discovers a Gothic castle at the center of his land that he appears not to own. Loesch looks for...
Author : Jay Bergen
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781942531425
The story of John Lennon's lawsuit with Morris Levy, the Mafia-connected owner of Roulette Records.
Author : Tony Davilio
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 141202479X
The Lennon Sessions is an intimate tale recapturing the memories as lived by Tony Davilio, as he experiences the once and a lifetime opportunity to work with one of the world's most well-known musicians. John Lennon, is not only deserving of his long-standing title of rock legend but as Tony discovers and carefully shares with the reader, he is also a man of vision, generosity, compassion and humor. This is a story unlike any told before. To remember John Lennon not only as a man who captivated the world as a mystical and complex character, but as a loving father, adoring husband, and profound musician with layers of laughter and happiness in the last days of his life. To understand him is to have known him and only a few did. This is your chance to hear the story as told by someone whose memories will keep John alive in himself and for the world forever.
Author : Yoko Ono
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681885891
A definitive, in-depth, revelatory exploration of John Lennon's intensely personal first major solo album after the breakup of the Beatles. Described by Lennon as "the best thing I've ever done," and widely regarded as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by Lennon, Ono, and other members of the band, and packed with previously unseen photographs by those who documented their lives, this incisive volume offers new insights into the raw emotions and open mindset of Lennon after marriage to Ono and the breakup of the Beatles, to the making of the album and revealing interview with Jann Wenner in December 1970. Primal therapy had a huge impact on Lennon's songwriting, resulting in the creation of intensely personal, soul-baring tracks. This book takes his lyrics as a starting point and explores Lennon's life, career, and self-perception, from "performing flea" with the Beatles to authenticity as a solo artist.