Type: Hardcover

Condition: Used, Good. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Light rubbing wear on the dust cover, spine and page edges. No folded pages, no notes, no underlines or markings on the pages.

Details: The Lives of John Lennon, author Albert Goldman

ISBN: 0-688-04721-1

Pages: 719

Published: 1988

When John Lennon was shot outside the

Dakota in December 1980, he was one of

the most famous men in the world. Adored

in life as the Magical Minstrel who called

the tune of the Sixties, he was mourned in

death as the martyred saint of the interna-

tional peace movement. Yet it was neither

as a pop star nor as a guru that he most

deserved to be honored but rather as an

inspired contemporary voice, a modern

tone-poet with a genius for employing the

resources of rock music and vernacular

speech to render the heart and soul of the

here and now.

Behind this fabled figure, however,

there was a sick and suffering human

being. The real John Lennon was not his

image. In fact, there was no real John

Lennon, only an endless succession of

masks that he spent his tortured and tragic

life impulsively donning and doffing. He

was, by turn, man, woman, and child;

moralist and immoralist; idealist and

cynic; solipsist and exhibitionist; bully

and wimp; sadist and masochist; ascetic

and junkie; creative genius and plagiarist;

master and slave; murderous criminal and

crucified victim. Yet he had the talent and

the courage to embody his jaggedly frac-

tured personality in unforgettable song.

In this definitive biography, the product

of six years' work and twelve hundred in-

terviews conducted all around the world,

Albert Goldman takes us deep inside John

Lennon's carefully guarded world, en-