Robert Hilburn's storied career as a rock critic has allowed him a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of some of the most iconic figures of our time. He was the only music critic to visit Folsom Prison with Johnny Cash. He met John Lennon during his lost weekend period in Los Angeles and they becam[...]
Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course [...]
At a time when the hottest issue in US immigration law is the proposed action by President Obama to protect from deportation as many as 5 million illegals in the United States, the 1972 John Lennon deportation case takes on special relevance today, notwithstanding the passage of forty years since he[...]
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 [...]
Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent.[...]
Collector's Edition. A Daily Mail Book.
The fascination we have as humans with our ability to do evil, witness the evidence of horror and stare fixedly at photographic, filmic or artefacts connected with death, is at the heart of the phenomenon known as 'Dark Tourism'. These images are about much more than tourism and the visiting of such[...]
The first ever biography of John Lennon by a lifelong Liverpudlian, this is the untold story of Lennon's middle-class background and his attempts to reconcile it with working-class rock 'n' roll.[...]
A sensitive boy brow-beaten by his domineering aunt. A troublemaker who refused to conform. A tortured genius. A global sensation.The Making of John Lennon goes behind the scenes of any official Beatles story, uncovering the different sides of John Lennon. Francis Kenny relates Lennon's difficult ch[...]
The Making of John Lennon focusses on the question of what might have caused the downfall of one of the most confident and brilliant musicians of the past century.Kenny emphasises three main influences which helped shape Lennon's creative process and stayed with him throughout his life. How did stro[...]
Boka inneholder alle 194 sangene som er skrevet og sunget av The Beatles, arrangert av Rikky Rooksby fra de originale innspillingene i de originale toneartene. Hver sang har besifring, gitar akkord-bokser og komplette tekster. I tillegg til spilletips (på norsk) og en komplett diskografi[...]
Denne fantastiske brevskat på 400 gennemillustrerede sider fortæller historien om John Lennon - fra de første kærestebreve til Cynthia, over tiden med The Beatles, kærligheden til Yoko Ono, bandets opløsning og forholdet til Paul McCartney, helt frem til Lennons tragiske død i 1[...]
På toppen af sin berømmelse ramte John Lennon i 1965 en mur, der forårsagede en ærlig søgning efter livets mening. Han endte med at tro, at for at samfundet kan udvikle sig, må folk holde op med at tilbede kulturelle helte som ham selv. Lennon opfordrede os til at tænke selv og se på ekspert[...]
Lennons bok Skywriting By Word Of Mouth i dubbelspråkig svensk-engelsk utgåva. Med 3-minuters bonus-cd: utdrag från John Lennons allra sista intervju, som gjordes bara timmar innan han sköts till döds den 8 december 1980.Skywriting By Word Of Mouth är en rik och rolig bok, här finns Lennons e[...]
En friskt blandad kompott av material från Johns och Yokos många uppfinningsrika projekt för freden. Teckningar, foton, tankeväckande utspel, kloka ord, humoristiska överraskningar, fräna provokationer. Med boken följer utan extra kostnad en bonus-DVD med två filmer, dels en film med dokumen[...]