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245 04 a| The Lennon companion :b| twenty-five years of comment /c| edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman.;

250 a| 1st American edition.;

300 a| xxiii, 273 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| Includes index.;

504 a| Bibliography: pages 250-259.;

504 a| Discography: pages 260-266.;

505 0 a| Introduction / Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman -- The Beatles / John Lahr -- Only a northern song. Long gone John: Lennon and the revelations / Lloyd Rose -- The arty Teddy Boy / Mike Evans -- Isolation: Sutcliffe, Epstein, Lennon and loss / Pauline Sutcliffe -- Ticket to ride. What songs The Beatles sang ... (from The Times) -- Stokowski talks of something called Beatles / Richard F. Shepard -- Beatle with a future / Gloria Steinem -- The menace of Beatlism / Paul Johnson -- Lennon's literary lunch / Ben Perrick -- A highbrow under all that hair? / Tom Wolfe -- Lennon's near-literacy (Parliamentary debate) -- A Hard Day's Night / Andrew Sarris -- The MBE controversy (from The Times) -- The diaries / Noël Coward -- Help! / Kenneth Tynan -- In the echo chamber / John Wain -- Getting better. Rubber Soul and the social dance tradition / Terence J. O'Grady -- How does a Beatle live? John Lennon lives like this / Maureen Cleave -- John's gospel / David Frost -- Beatles strike serious note in press talk / Robert E. Dallos -- Revolver / Peter Clayton -- Penny Lane for a song (from The Times) -- Up against it / John Lahr -- The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music / William Mann -- Mind games. Comments on rock / Luciano Berio -- The music of The Beatles / Ned Rorem -- The Lennon-McCartney songs / Deryck Cooke -- On the music of The Beatles / Joshua Rifkin -- The English army had just won the war / Neil Sinyard -- The Beatles' home movie / Charles Marowitz -- Metamorphosis of The Beatles / Pauline Kael -- I'm stepping out. Meeting Yoko Ono / John Jones -- John Lennon's schooldays / Michael Wood -- Beatles / Adrian Mitchell -- The new Beatles album / William Mann -- A fairy tale about a present-day Cinderella / A. Martynova -- Those inventive Beatles / William Mann -- The diaries of a cabinet minister / Richard Crossman -- The isle is full of noises / Bernard Levin -- Strong as ever / William Mann -- Carry that weight. Power to the people / Robin Blackburn and Tariq Ali -- Imagine / Wilfrid Mellers -- Infantilism / Wilfrid Mellers -- John Lennon versus the FBI / Jon Wiener -- John Lennon, Bob Geldof and why pop song don't change the world / Paul Hodson -- Tomorrow never knows -- Together again: walls and bridges / Ben Gerson -- Beyond Strawberry Fields: Lennon's later style / Eric Tamm -- Five shots end the life of the famous singer and composer / A. Lopukhin & V. Pakhomov -- On John Lennon's death / M. Beglov -- Lennon -- from Beatle to househusband / Martin Amis -- John Lennon / George Melly -- Symbolic comrades / Robert Christgau -- Lennon's epitaph / Elizabeth Thomson -- Remember. For $325, a chance to assess the legacy of The Beatles / John Rockwell -- Say, John ... / Peter Schickele -- John and Yoko / John Tavener -- Night music / Lukas Foss -- Murder on 72nd Street / Melor Sturua -- Fighting the fab / Philip Larkin -- New York City Blues (for John Lennon) / Adrian Henri.;

520 a| Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex, enigmatic life. This book is a luminous and multifaceted exploration of John Lennon's life and work, a collection of over fifty articles from a stellar list of writers including Pauline Kael, Tom Wolfe, Martin Amis, Gloria Steinem, and Philip Larkin--a remarkably multidimensional look at Lennon's music, myth, and mystique.;

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The Lennon companion : twenty-five years of comment / edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman.

Other author	Thomson, Elizabeth, 1957- editor, writer of introduction.
Other author	Gutman, David, 1957- editor, writer of introduction.
Format	Book
Edition	1st American edition.
Publication Info	New York : Schirmer Books, 1988, ©1987.
Description	xxiii, 273 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Lennon, John, 1940-1980. Beatles. Rock musicians--England. --Biography. Rock groups--England. --Biography.

Contents	Introduction / Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman -- The Beatles / John Lahr -- Only a northern song. Long gone John: Lennon and the revelations / Lloyd Rose -- The arty Teddy Boy / Mike Evans -- Isolation: Sutcliffe, Epstein, Lennon and loss / Pauline Sutcliffe -- Ticket to ride. What songs The Beatles sang ... (from The Times) -- Stokowski talks of something called Beatles / Richard F. Shepard -- Beatle with a future / Gloria Steinem -- The menace of Beatlism / Paul Johnson -- Lennon's literary lunch / Ben Perrick -- A highbrow under all that hair? / Tom Wolfe -- Lennon's near-literacy (Parliamentary debate) -- A Hard Day's Night / Andrew Sarris -- The MBE controversy (from The Times) -- The diaries / Noël Coward -- Help! / Kenneth Tynan -- In the echo chamber / John Wain -- Getting better. Rubber Soul and the social dance tradition / Terence J. O'Grady -- How does a Beatle live? John Lennon lives like this / Maureen Cleave -- John's gospel / David Frost -- Beatles strike serious note in press talk / Robert E. Dallos -- Revolver / Peter Clayton -- Penny Lane for a song (from The Times) -- Up against it / John Lahr -- The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music / William Mann -- Mind games. Comments on rock / Luciano Berio -- The music of The Beatles / Ned Rorem -- The Lennon-McCartney songs / Deryck Cooke -- On the music of The Beatles / Joshua Rifkin -- The English army had just won the war / Neil Sinyard -- The Beatles' home movie / Charles Marowitz -- Metamorphosis of The Beatles / Pauline Kael -- I'm stepping out. Meeting Yoko Ono / John Jones -- John Lennon's schooldays / Michael Wood -- Beatles / Adrian Mitchell -- The new Beatles album / William Mann -- A fairy tale about a present-day Cinderella / A. Martynova -- Those inventive Beatles / William Mann -- The diaries of a cabinet minister / Richard Crossman -- The isle is full of noises / Bernard Levin -- Strong as ever / William Mann -- Carry that weight. Power to the people / Robin Blackburn and Tariq Ali -- Imagine / Wilfrid Mellers -- Infantilism / Wilfrid Mellers -- John Lennon versus the FBI / Jon Wiener -- John Lennon, Bob Geldof and why pop song don't change the world / Paul Hodson -- Tomorrow never knows -- Together again: walls and bridges / Ben Gerson -- Beyond Strawberry Fields: Lennon's later style / Eric Tamm -- Five shots end the life of the famous singer and composer / A. Lopukhin & V. Pakhomov -- On John Lennon's death / M. Beglov -- Lennon -- from Beatle to househusband / Martin Amis -- John Lennon / George Melly -- Symbolic comrades / Robert Christgau -- Lennon's epitaph / Elizabeth Thomson -- Remember. For $325, a chance to assess the legacy of The Beatles / John Rockwell -- Say, John ... / Peter Schickele -- John and Yoko / John Tavener -- Night music / Lukas Foss -- Murder on 72nd Street / Melor Sturua -- Fighting the fab / Philip Larkin -- New York City Blues (for John Lennon) / Adrian Henri.
Abstract	Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex, enigmatic life. This book is a luminous and multifaceted exploration of John Lennon's life and work, a collection of over fifty articles from a stellar list of writers including Pauline Kael, Tom Wolfe, Martin Amis, Gloria Steinem, and Philip Larkin--a remarkably multidimensional look at Lennon's music, myth, and mystique.
General note	Includes index.
Bibliography note	Bibliography: pages 250-259.
Bibliography note	Discography: pages 260-266.
LCCN	87016551
ISBN	0028725913

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