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The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies
- Author: Davies, Hunter
- Editor: Davies, Hunter
The letters offer an opportunity to see Lennon less as icon than as human being
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies
- Author: Davies, Hunter
- Editor: Davies, Hunter
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The letters offer an opportunity to see Lennon less as icon than as human being
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A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon
John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating as never before the intimate side of a private genius.
Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of The Beatles, has tracked down almost three hundred of Lennon's letters and postcards - to relations, friends, fans, strangers, lovers and even to the laundry. Some of the letters are tender, informative, funny, angry and abusive, and some are simply heart-breaking - from his earliest surviving thank-you note, written when he was ten, to his last scribbled autograph given on 8 December 1980, the day he was shot, aged forty.
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- The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies
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The letters offer an opportunity to see Lennon less as icon than as human being
A massive deposit of freshly excavated notes, screeds, asides and howls, each lavishly reproduced and carefully annotated, "Letters" is the most intimate book ever published about Lennon. In its revelation of the man's psychology, it far surpasses all previous accounts by wives, lovers, half-siblings, ex-aides and even the best biographers
