A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lenn was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever kwn, creator of Help!,Come Together,Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,Strawberry Fields Forever,Imagine, and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and antated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. With unparalleled kwledge of Lenn and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lenn's life and using them to reveal the man himself.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10
1619692457
ISBN-13
9781619692459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189894295
Product Key Features
Author
John Lennon
Format
CD-Audio, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Topic
Biography: the Arts
Additional Product Features
Edited by
Hunter Davies
Running Time
510
Read by
Director Pain Management Unit Christopher Eccleston,Allan Corduner
Introduction by
Hunter Davies
Author Biography
John Lennon was born in Liverpool in 1940. A singer, songwriter, and musician, he was one of the cofounders of The Beatles. He died in 1980. Hunter Davies is the author of over 40 books and has written for The Guardian (London), New Statesman, and The Sunday Times (London). He is married to the novelist and biographer Margaret Forster and they live in London.