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Title: Lennon in America by Geoffrey Giuliano, Geoffrey Guiliano ISBN: 0815410735 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.96
Rating: 5
Summary: maybe there's something to this
Comment: After hearing all the controversial buzz over Lennon in America I decided to read the book and keep an open mind. For those who say their beloved Beatle John couldn't possibly have behaved this way-ie, bouts of physical violence, drug use, manipulation by his wife, check previous sources: John Green, Albert Goldman, Fred Seaman, May Pang. I guess they're all lying too, right, and it's all a conspiracy? And remember way back when, when Yoko Ono was universally despised as the "Dragon Lady" who broke up the Beatles? I guess this must be revisionist history at its finest!
Rating: 2
Summary: Muddled but mostly true
Comment: For a guy who seems to crank out the Beatle books Giuliano is a surprisingly poor writer. This book seemed rushed and was rather muddled, his view on Lennon or Ono seeminly changing in different chapters. Still what emerges from the dross and Giuliano's boorish and at times prudish slant is a credible version of Lennon. In fact what surprised me was that all the "new" stuff was material Goldman had covered years ago. Interestingly Guiliano never mentions Goldman, no doubt due to the baggage the latter carries. Indeed it made me wonder if Goldman's book deserves its bad rap. Goldman's biggest crime seemed to me not to share the Rolling Stone magazine view of the world and point up such heresies as historical overview (showing that the youth in say Weimar Germany were at least as wild as any in Haight-Ashbury). If anyone doubts the view of Yoko presented here one need only read her liner notes for the Lennon anthology of a few years back where she spends most of her time talking about herself, repeatedly mentioning that both John and her thought she was by far the better artist! Her Stalinist tone towards her late husband's life giving great insight into her totalitarian personality. The first chapter here is the best, otherwise skip to Goldman and listen to Revolver.
Rating: 1
Summary: Do not buy this book
Comment: This book is so poor, it does not even qulaify as "fun" garbage, as others have put it. I have over 2000 books and this will be only the 2nd book I will ever throw away to keep it from my library. Why? The scholarship is so bad, I simply cannot believe any of it. Let me give you some examples:
On page 89, the author writes, "Lennon's imaginary encounters ranged from rising star Madonna to the unlikely Barbara Walters, from Yoko's sister Setsuko to McCartney's kid sister Ruth." Madonna's first single was released in 1982, two years after Lennon DIED. The author even puts this quote in the chapter about 1975, a year before Madonnna finished High School in Michigan.
On Page 109, the author writes "During the 1969 filming of the Let It Be recording sessions, John made insinuating references to the drug, comparing heroin to sex by cracking, "Shooting is good exercise." In the book on the LET IT BE transcripts, it reveals that is YOKO who said this, NOT JOHN, and this is an example of the sloppy way the entire book is put together, seemingly without any effort to tell the truth.
The first chapter is so poorly put together, you realize immediately the author is going to put down anything negative about Lennon no matter what the circumstance and believe them all. There are huge blocks of conversations repeated in this book from friends of friends, ex-wives of groupies,etc. Let me try to get this across. The brain does not store whole conversations. Think of someone you talked to yesterday- now try to recreate the conversation exactly as it occurred, word by word. it's impossible, the brain does not record those things, it will record the essence of a conversation, maybe even a sentence or two, but not a word by word blow.
But this is what you get here- long conversations that you realize is complete fiction but appears as it is faultless fact. I like "Globe" like articles, so I was not going to take it too seriously, but after seeing things I know cannot possibly be right, I realized I could believe none of it. And neither should you, even for fun.
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Title: The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years by Edward Klein ISBN: 031231292X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: John Lennon in His Own Write by John Lennon, Yoko Ono ISBN: 0684868075 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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