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" legend—because
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 attitude—his 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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