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For greater than a 1 / 4 century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman transforms his formidable expertise to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Pulling on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major people, Norman reveals the comprehensive & most revealing portrait of John Lennon ever released.This masterly biography requires a fresh and penetrating check out every part of Lennon's much-chronicled life, like the songs that contain transformed him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore—his upbringing by his rigorous Aunt Mimi; his allegedly misused school and learner days; the progression of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting romance with a Japanese performance musician; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. The book's numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon—whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never seen before—and Yoko Ono, who talks with sometimes stunning candor about the inner workings of her matrimony to John.“[A] haunting, mammoth, excellent good article.” -New York Times Honest and unflinching, as John himself would wish, Norman gives us the complete man in all his countless contradictions—difficult and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, susceptible and insecure—and reveals how the mother who offered him away as a toddler haunted his head and his music for the others of his days and nights.
