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Summary: A Very Funny Romp Through This Ex-Beatle's Interviews...
Review: ... but disappointing due to a lack of personal details about his relationship with Yoko. Obviously, the reason people are going to want this book is to hear about Yoko. But in this book of interviews, one hears about Yoko only in passing. For instance, I would have expected at least one interview about dining with Yoko. John and Yoko famously went out to dinner from time to time. What sorts of things did Yoko order? Was she a vegan? Other than failing to meet the Yoko O-nus (a pun), I believe this could be a pretty good book, and perhaps subsequent editions will include interviews in which John discusses her at more length.
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Summary: John Lennon - Human
Review: A laser-sharp, fly-on-the-wall encounter with John Lennon at 30. He stops being The Beatle, The Genius, The Legend and becomes instead a guy who has seen and lived some very strange stuff. You feel for him and you see him finally as a kind of savant: He was an average guy with huge pockets of talent and pain who was body-surfing the tidal wave of his own life. BOTTOM LINE: The closest any of us will ever get to talking to the guy. You'll love it.
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Summary: Innaccurate portrayal of Lennon.
Review: An interesting look at what in John's (and Yoko's) mind at the time. The book is an interview, but is very informative and gives an insight into Lennon's personality, the mn behind the legend.
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Summary: An interesting quick read
Review: An interesting look at what in John's (and Yoko's) mind at the time. The book is an interview, but is very informative and gives an insight into Lennon's personality, the mn behind the legend.
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Summary: Interesting glimpse into Lennon's world
Review: Colored by the recent break up of The Beatles, Lennon Remembers can't completely be taken at face value. Lennon himself later dismissed many of the comments he makes in the book. Still, there are many sections where Lennon comes clean about The Beatles and his own problems. While it lacks objectivity, Lennon Remembers does provide a snapshot glimpse into The Beatles and their contemporaries that other books fail to do.There's a boatload of bitterness that colors Lennon's comments about his working relationship with Paul McCartney. Lennon would later retract many of the things he said and elaborate on why he fibbed or didn't tell the whole story. For a fuller, more complete view of The Beatles and Lennon, I'd recommend Lennon's Playboy interview published shortly before his death as well as The Beatles Anthology. Both provide a bit of fair balance missing from Jann Werner's interview. Lennon himself was initially upset when Werner published these interviews in book form as he agreed to do them provided that didn't occur.
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Summary: A Strange Man
Review: For anyone who wants to understand what it may have been like to have been a Beatle. This book is it. Coming off the heyday of the sixties, heroin, Beatles,etc. John Lennon tells it like it was. The only thing is...sometimes he can't remember specific details. This book is the transcripts of a long set of interviews, either in person or over the phone between Rolling Stone Magazine publisher/editor Jann Wenner and John & Yoko. The bitterness that eventually mellowed is all there and lots of colorful expletives also. The thing that amazed me was how much business sense the (then)29 year old Lennon possesed. The interviews were done in 1970 and business practices are still as ruthless over 30 years later. This is an essential read for the fan or Beatle historian.
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Summary: Lennon Remembers (Selectively)
Review: For anyone who wants to understand what it may have been like to have been a Beatle. This book is it. Coming off the heyday of the sixties, heroin, Beatles,etc. John Lennon tells it like it was. The only thing is...sometimes he can't remember specific details. This book is the transcripts of a long set of interviews, either in person or over the phone between Rolling Stone Magazine publisher/editor Jann Wenner and John & Yoko. The bitterness that eventually mellowed is all there and lots of colorful expletives also. The thing that amazed me was how much business sense the (then)29 year old Lennon possesed. The interviews were done in 1970 and business practices are still as ruthless over 30 years later. This is an essential read for the fan or Beatle historian.
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Summary: Lennon in his own words...
Review: I first read this collection of interviews with John Lennon back in the early 1970s when I was 14 years old and it had a powerful impact on me. Lennon mixes his discussions with hard words and strong opinions. I had never read language like that before. This is pure, unadulterated Lennon. His anger spoke to my own anger as a teenager in those times. The history he conveys is well known now but, back then, we knew next to nothing about the early days of the Liverpool bands. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Beatles and their era.
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Summary: Straight from the Walrus's mouth!
Review: I guess I really shouldn't be amazed with all the current new releases about John's life. With the 20th anniversary of Lennon's untimely death, I just want some truth. I have read a couple of these books as told by others. I can't help taking them with a grain. Books written around "stolen journals" and hibernated diaries. How much is true, if any? Who really knows, but this book however does not need such assistance.This is John himself, in his own words. From page one I had the feeling of being right there, engrossed in the conversation, so interested in what one of the greatest icons of our era had to say at 30 years old. I write this review so soon because I have read this book in 3 hours straight. Lots of new info showing the humor and brillance, and sometimes ironic arrogance. I am not going to say or reference anything about the book other than I have spent over 100.00 in the past month reading each book as they came out. This was the best money spent. My most enjoyable and entralling of the bunch. Unsatisfying only because I wanted this book to keep going and going!
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Summary: LENNON'S BEST INTERVIEW
Review: If you have any interest whatsoever in the life of John Lennon or his take on Beatle history, this book is a must. The read is fascinating; spat out with dizzying wit, brilliance, venom and passion by Lennon at the apex of his primal scream years. Whereas Lennon's views changed several times in his life -- and certainly softened by the time of his death -- there is nothing false from the man who would soon cry, "Gimme Some Truth". This was John's world in 1970...politics, love, then-contemporary musicians (esp. Mick and Dylan, here called Zimmerman), The Beatles, his past and his dreams of the future. When he recounts his wish for where he'll be with Yoko, "When (he's) 64" it's heartbreaking...especially since Oct. 9th, 2000 would have been his 60th birthday. Forget all the revisionism and theorizing from those whose agenda is only to sell a book. Revel in Lennon's own words. You won't want to put it down.
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