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In 'John Lennon,' Philip Norman paints a realistic portrait of the former Beatle (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
BIOGRAPHY John Lennon By Philip Norman. Ecco, 851 pp., $34.95. At the end of "John Lennon: The Life," his simultaneously fascinating and troubling biography of the late Beatle, Philip Norman mentions that Yoko Ono, whose patronage opened unimagined doors...
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New John Lennon biography: more than 'A Day in the Life' (The Heights)
nal grandfather, John "Jack" Lennon, and ending with a few thoughts from Sean Lennon, John and Yoko Ono's son, John Lennon: The Life is a comprehensive and extremely readable biography of a complex man and an unstoppable roller coaster ride. Philip Norman, also the author of the Beatles' biography, the critically acclaimed Shout, revisits many of Lennon's old friends, family members, and ...
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John Lennon: almost a Kiwi (Stuff)
A massive new biography of John Lennon revisits the crucial afternoon when he nearly chose to live in New Zealand - and thus deprive the world of the Beatles.
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New biography sees John Lennon as selfish, spiteful (Detroit Free Press)
Everybody from Bill Clinton to Fidel Castro loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of "Imagine."
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Books: Biography paints ugly portrait of John Lennon (The State)
JOHN LENNON: THE LIFE By Philip Norman (Ecco, 822 pages, $34.95) Everybody loves to remember John Lennon as the dippy Utopian of “Imagine”: “Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too.” Less remembered is the Lennon of “Run For Your Life”: “Well I’d rather see you dead little girl / Than to be with another man.”
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In Norman's 'Life,' Lennon's myth, realities examined (Courier-Post)
Two incarnations of John Lennon emerge in Philip Norman's already controversial new biography "John Lennon: The Life."
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Biographer paints portrait of John Lennon (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
"John Lennon: The Life" certainly leaves no aspect of Lennon's life uncovered. Starting with his birth, and ending on that fateful day in 1980 when he was murdered by Mark David Chapman, Philip Norman meticulously reconstructs Lennon's life.
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Positive portrayalsin 'Lennon' (The Wichita Eagle)
"John Lennon: The Life" by Philip Norman (Ecco, 864 pages, $34.95) At the end of "John Lennon: The Life," his simultaneously fascinating and troubling biography of the late Beatle, Philip Norman mentions that Yoko Ono, whose patronage opened unimagined doors for research, ultimately refused to endorse the book. It was, she said, "mean to John." Perhaps that means it was actually fair. ...
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Book Review: John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman (Blogcritics.org)
Author Philip Norman attempts -- and succeeds -- in writing the final, definitive word on one of the twentieth century's most iconic figures. Not before or since has there ever been a musical group -- rock and roll or otherwise -- that the world's media has followed with the same determination that it once did with the Beatles. And while all of the fab four provided journalists, both legitimate ...
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Author's look at Lennon is revelatory and fascinating (San Diego Union-Tribune)
At the end of “John Lennon: The Life,” his simultaneously fascinating and troubling biography of the late Beatle, Philip Norman mentions that Yoko Ono, whose patronage opened unimagined doors for research, ultimately refused to endorse the book.
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