![]() And his treatment of Cynthia Powell, his first wife Ono, his second and Julian, his first son, is shoddy enough to embarrass even the worst failed father or philanderer. Tellingly, Norman writes, "John was always scrupulous about giving, however long after the event." Juvenile John and adult John alike made sense of disputes, jealousies and even plain confusion with fists, booze or both. ![]() To Norman's credit, the reader comes away from the multifaceted John Lennon feeling like he almost knew him - and that he probably wouldn't have liked him if he did. Written "for a hypothetical reader who has never heard of or listened to a note of his music," the book neither denigrates nor extols the man. Indeed, it would take but a brief glance at the definition of Antisocial Personality Disorder to make an armchair assessment of what ailed this impulsive and sometimes cruel artist. ![]() Had Norman been "mean to John" (and he's not), he'd certainly be no meaner than John himself was to almost everyone he knew, Ono included. Norman, in her opinion, had been "mean to John." Well, then. A novelist and biographer, Philip Norman is the author of Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly.Īt first receptive, Yoko Ono ultimately refused to endorse Philip Norman's exhaustive and artfully sketched new biography, John Lennon: The Life. ![]()
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