According to Philip Norman's new biography, John Lennon: The Life, the boyish Lennon occasionally down-covered with his mother, Julia, and the adventitious blow of her breast one time triggered longings in him to accept sex with her – longings, Lennon believed, that Julia ability accept been accommodating to satisfy. The "truth" of the adventure may be added cerebral than accurate – who knows what Julia would accept done? – but it deepens our compassionate of a circuitous artisan and man.
That's accurate of The Life in general. Norman is the columnist of the 1981 Beatles adventures Shout!, and knows their apple well. So abundant has been accounting about the Beatles, however, that this book, at 851 pages, treads some arid paths. But if the book lacks blockbuster revelations, it sharpens what we apperceive about Lennon at just about every turn.
Reporting is Norman's strength, and Yoko Ono gave the columnist aberrant admission –;discussing, a part of added things, the ups and downs of their own sex life. His apprehension of Lennon's years in Liverpool is analogously nuanced. Extensive interviews with Lennon's accompany and ancestors could cause him to appearance Lennon's father, about apparent as a ne'er-do-well who alone his son, in a softer light. He reveals Julia's sister, Mimi, who aloft John from boyhood, to accept been a abstinent throughout her alliance to John's uncle – a evocative idea, accustomed her constant adherence to John.
Norman is no critic, so Lennon's music isn't discussed in abundant detail. The book is, afterwards all, subtitled The Life, and Norman sticks to the assignment he set for himself. But he pushes above the clichés in exploring how the books and balladry Lennon admired as a adolescent re-emerged in both his songs and his prose. And he cracks the abstruseness of the activity Lennon accepted autograph about in "Norwegian Wood"– turns out it was acceptable the wife of one of his friends. How important is all that? Devotees will appetite the new information, while accidental readers will acquisition a accustomed adventure told added absolutely than anytime before.
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