In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on
the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a
disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.
Riley
portrays Lennon’s rise from Hamburg’s red light district to Britain’s
Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÉ of “Love Me Do” to the
soaring ambivalence of “Don’t Let Me Down”; from his shotgun marriage to
Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written
with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to
expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new
and exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends, enemies, confidantes,
and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well
as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores
Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who
universalized an American style, the anarchic rock ’n’ roller with the
moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde
lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the
enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a
cultural touchstone.
In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a
modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as
Lennon himself might have experienced it.
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