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Published: 15th January 2004
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"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man."-Martin Amis. John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex, enigmatic life. The Lennon Companion is a luminous and multifaceted exploration of John Lennon's life and work, a collection of over fifty articles from a stellar list of writers including Pauline Kael, Tom Wolfe, Martin Amis, Gloria Steinem, and Philip Larkin-a remarkably multidimensional look at Lennon's music, myth, and mystique.
"Hipsters and highbrows alike have their say in the ultimate John Lennon book."
| Editors' Note | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Copyright permissions | |
| Introduction | |
| Long gone John: Lennon and the revelations | p. 5 |
| The arty Teddy Boy | p. 14 |
| Isolation: Sutcliffe, Epstein, Lennon and loss | p. 20 |
| What songs the Beatles sang ... (from The Times) | p. 27 |
| Stokowski talks of something called Beatles | p. 29 |
| Beatle with a future | p. 31 |
| The menace of Beatlism | p. 39 |
| Lennon's literary lunch | p. 42 |
| A highbrow under all that hair? | p. 44 |
| Lennon's near-literacy (Parliamentary debate) | p. 47 |
| A Hard Day's Night | p. 50 |
| The MBE controversy (from The Times) | p. 53 |
| The Diaries | p. 57 |
| Help! | p. 59 |
| In the echo chamber | p. 60 |
| Rubber Soul and the social dance tradition | p. 69 |
| How does a Beatle live? John Lennon lives like this | p. 71 |
| John's gospel | p. 76 |
| Beatles strike serious note in press talk | p. 78 |
| Revolver | p. 80 |
| Penny Lane for a song (from The Times) | p. 81 |
| Up Against It | p. 82 |
| The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music | p. 89 |
| Comments on rock | p. 97 |
| The music of The Beatles | p. 99 |
| The Lennon-McCartney songs | p. 109 |
| On the music of the Beatles | p. 113 |
| The English army had just won the war | p. 126 |
| The Beatles' home movie | p. 131 |
| Metamorphosis of The Beatles | p. 134 |
| Meeting Yoko Ono | p. 141 |
| John Lennon's schooldays | p. 145 |
| Beatles | p. 150 |
| The new Beatles album | p. 152 |
| A fairy tale about a present-day Cindrella | p. 154 |
| Those inventive Beatles | p. 157 |
| The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister | p. 159 |
| The isle is full of noises | p. 160 |
| Strong as ever | p. 161 |
| Power to the people | p. 165 |
| Imagine | p. 181 |
| Infantilism | p. 186 |
| John Lennon versus the FBI | p. 188 |
| John Lennon, Bob Geldof and why pop songs don't change the world | p. 198 |
| Together again: Walls and Bridges | p. 209 |
| Beyond Strawberry Fields: Lennon's later style | p. 211 |
| Five shots end the life of the famous singer and composer | p. 218 |
| On John Lennon's death | p. 219 |
| Lennon - from Beatle to househusband | p. 220 |
| John Lennon | p. 223 |
| Symbolic comrades | p. 226 |
| Lennon's epitaph | p. 231 |
| For $325, a chance to assess the legacy of The Beatles | p. 237 |
| Say, John ... | p. 241 |
| John and Yoko | p. 243 |
| Night music | p. 243 |
| Murder on 72nd Street | p. 244 |
| Fighting the fab | p. 247 |
| New York City Blues (for John Lennon) | p. 248 |
| Afterword 2003 | p. 251 |
| Selective bibliography | p. 270 |
| Discography | p. 286 |
| Index | p. 296 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780306812705
ISBN-10: 0306812703
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 344
Published: 15th January 2004
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.91 x 15.04
x 2.29
Weight (kg): 0.45
Edition Number: 1
