We All Want to Change the World: The Life of John Lennon

We All Want to Change the World: The Life of John Lennon
ISBN-10
190495037X
ISBN-13
9781904950370
Category
Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Haus Books
Author
John Wyse Jackson

Description

"John Lennon (1940-80) was the founder of the most successful pop/rock group of all time, the Beatles. Convinced of his genius from an early age, he explored his own complex, witty personality in his songs, drawing on drugs, meditation and psychotherapy for insight into his art. His career was transformed in 1968 when he joined forces with Yoko Ono. As the Beatles broke up, the extraordinary couple became public 'clowns for peace', and familiar figures in the international protest movement. Lennon's groundbreaking solo work during the 1970s would be overshadowed by the success of the 1971 'Imagine'. The song became an anthem after he was shot by a mentally disturbed fan in New York on 8 December 1980. John Wyse Jackson's biography is published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death. Touching for the first time on his Irish roots and how his background influenced his music, philosophy and attitude to life and politics, it travels to the heart of the 'little child inside the man'."--BOOK JACKET.

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