@article{433603,
      author = {Riley, Tim,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433603},
      title = {Lennon : the man, the myth, the music--the definitive life  /},
      publisher = {Hyperion,},
      abstract = {The author, a music historian and journalist writes a  biography that challenges many popular assumptions about  Lennon's life, from his widely misunderstood 'Working Class  Hero' origins to his epic romance with Yoko Ono. Also  critic for NPR he takes us on the remarkable journey that  brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood  to the highest realms of fame. He portrays Lennon's rise  from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal  Variety Show; from the charmed naïveté of "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. This narrative draws on  numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon's  friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates. He 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.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {433603},
      pages = {xiv, 765 p., [24] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}