Being John Lennon
Ray Connolly
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John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history.
Chronicling a famously troubled life, BEING JOHN LENNON analyses the contradictions in the singer-songwriter's creative and destructive personality.
Drawing on many interviews and conversations with Lennon, his first wife Cynthia and second Yoko Ono, as well as his girlfriend May Pang and song-writing partner Paul McCartney, Ray Connolly unsparingly reassesses the chameleon nature of the perpetually dissatisfied star who just couldn't stop reinventing himself.
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Praise for Being John Lennon
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Connolly draws on his archive conversations with the Beatles to give a superb portrait of a dissatisfied star who couldn't stop reinventing himself - Daily TelegraphConnolly tells the story with a fitting, powerful sense of drama. - DAILY MAIL'[John Lennon] would probably enjoy this very fair biography... Connolly's book presents him as neither saint nor sinner but captures with honesty a complex and fascinating character - The SunAn intimate biography that finds much to say that is new about the head Beatle - Choice MagazineExcellent - Daily Telegraph Music Books of the Year
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