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

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

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
Author	Tim Riley
Binding	Hardcover
Brand	Brand: Hyperion
EAN	9781401324520
Edition	First Edition
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	1401324525
Label	Hyperion
Manufacturer	Hyperion
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	784
PublicationDate	2011-09-20
Publisher	Hyperion
ReleaseDate	2011-09-20
Studio	Hyperion