02595cam a2200373 i 4500 283109552 TxAuBib 20081202120000.0 081202s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008004684 9780060754013 $35.00 006075401X $35.00 TxAuBib rda Norman, Philip, 1943- John Lennon : The Life / Philip Norman. 1st ed. New York , NY : Ecco, 2008. 851 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; hardbound ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. The country boy -- War baby -- The Northern Confederacy -- The outlaws -- Shortsighted John Wimple Lennon -- The gallotone champion -- Buddies -- To the toppermost of the poppermost -- My mummy's dead -- Jealous guy -- Under the jacaranda -- Mach schau -- The singing rage -- Shadowlands -- Lucky stars -- A genius of the lower crust -- Leather tonsils in a throat of steel -- The big bang -- The top of the mountain -- Real life in cinemascope -- A most religious fellow -- Zen vaudeville -- Breathe -- Magic, meditation, and misery -- There's a good little guru -- Back to virginity -- Bedlam -- Withdrawal symptoms -- Beatledämmerung -- Pizza and fairy tales -- The yippie yippie shake -- Trouble with Harry -- Beautiful boy -- Homebody -- Starting over -- Postscript: Sean remembers. Library Journal, August 01, 2008. Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2008. This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much chronicled life, including songs that have turned 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 strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. Adult. Brodart. 20081202. Lennon, John 1940-1980 1940 - 1980. Rock musicians Biography. Beatles. Biography. Lennon, John.