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Highlights
- In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.
- About the Author: Tim Riley is a web producer, campus speaker, and pianist.
- 784 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Music
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Book Synopsis
In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÃ(c)f "Love Me Do" to the soaring ambivalence of "Don't Let Me Down"; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock 'n' roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone. In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.About the Author
Tim Riley is a web producer, campus speaker, and pianist. His music criticism has appeared in the Washington Post, in Boston magazine, and on National Public Radio. He is also a music commentator for NPR's Here and Now. He lives in Boston.Dimensions (Overall): 9.4 Inches (H) x 6.5 Inches (W) x 2.1 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Music
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Number of Pages: 784
Publisher: Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Tim Riley
Language: English
Street Date: September 20, 2011
TCIN: 93282944
UPC: 9781401324520
Item Number (DPCI): 247-12-0827
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 2.6 pounds
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