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Being John Lennon
About This Book
What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who pretended to be a working-class hero? How did it feel to have one of the most recognizable singing voices in the world, but to dislike it so much he always wanted to disguise it? Being John Lennon is not about the whitewashed Prince of Peace of Imagine legendâbecause that was only a small part of him. The John Lennon depicted in these pages is a much more kaleidoscopic figure, sometimes almost a collision of different characters. He was, of course, funny, often very funny. But above everything, he had attitudeâhis impudent style somehow personifying the aspirations of his generation to question authority. He could, and would, say the unsayable. Though there were more glamorous rock stars in rock history, even within the Beatles, it was John Lennon's attitude which caught, and then defined, his era in the most memorable way.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Authorâs Note
- Foreword
- 1. âI forgot about my fatherâ
- 2. âI was aggressiveâ
- 3. âThe sort of gang I ledâ
- 4. âI must be a geniusâ
- 5. âNobody was fightingâ
- 6. âThe way I lookedâ
- 7. âWhatâs so sad about the pastâ
- 8. âPaul looked about tenâ
- 9. âThe copper came to the doorâ
- 10. âThe underlying chip on my shoulderâ
- 11. âIt was terribleâ
- 12. âI ruined his life!â
- 13. âThis guy who had a drum kitâ
- 14. âI grew up in Hamburgâ
- 15. âWomen should be obscene and not heardâ
- 16. âIs this what I want to do?â
- 17. âYouâd call them groupies nowâ
- 18. âI wasnât too keen on reaching twenty-oneâ
- 19. âWe were in a daydreamâ
- 20. âI was the closest to Brianâ
- 21. âI looked up to Stuâ
- 22. âCynâs having a babyâ
- 23. âI had to do the talkingâ
- 24. âWe sang for twelve hoursâ
- 25. âThe holiday was plannedâ
- 26. âI play a guitar, too . . .â
- 27. âThis isnât show businessâ
- 28. âWe just walked through itâ
- 29. âA Hard Dayâs Nightâ
- 30. âA rock and roll musicianâ
- 31. âWe were like Kings of the Jungleâ
- 32. âOnce you plug in and the noise startsâ
- 33. âNowhere Manâ
- 34. âWeâre more popular than Jesusâ
- 35. âItâs like weâre four freaks being wheeled outâ
- 36. âOur lives had been threatenedâ
- 37. âAn imaginary nailâ
- 38. âStrawberry Fields Foreverâ
- 39. âMick Jagger wears a codpieceâ
- 40. âI was scaredâ
- 41. âI am the egg manâ
- 42. âFlying on a magic carpetâ
- 43. âI think Iâm Jesus Christâ
- 44. âSomeone as barmy as I amâ
- 45. âGet your drums outâ
- 46. âYouâre not worth any moreâ
- 47. âMy prick on an albumâ
- 48. âWe hope we passed the auditionâ
- 49. âIt was Yoko that changed meâ
- 50. âIâm leaving the Beatlesâ
- 51. âA crutch for the worldâs social lepersâ
- 52. âFree means freeâ
- 53. âI might just as well have been a comedianâ
- 54. âThe radicalism was phoneyâ
- 55. âImagineâ is anti-religious
- 56. âNew York is at my speedâ
- 57. âDonât fuck with my earsâ
- 58. âTo finish off . . . we thought weâd do a numberâ
- 59. âIf I began writing with Paul againâ
- 60. âIâve battled all the monstersâ
- 61. âA second chanceâ
- 62. âWanting to make musicâ
- 63. âPlaying guitar and singingâ
- 64. âI donât believe in dead heroesâ
- Illustrations Insert
- Afterword
- After John died what happened to . . .
- John Lennonâs best recordings
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Illustrations Insert
- Index
- Copyright