And as Norman proves over and over again in this 864-page study, Lennon was crippled emotionally by a tragic childhood, often vicious to those who loved him most, and particularly cruel to his first wife his first son his fumbling, seaman father and his closest friends. The visionary Lennon, practically deified after his assassination on the streets of New York in 1980, proved himself over 40 years to be a brilliant songwriter and musician with a profound social conscience, a gentle and loving father, and a ferociously protective friend. It was, she said, “mean to John.” Perhaps that means it was actually fair. At the end of John Lennon: The Life his simultaneously fascinating and troubling biography of the late Beatle, Philip Norman mentions that Yoko Ono, whose patronage opened unimagined doors for research, ultimately refused to endorse the book.
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