Be John Lennon. Konnolly R.

Rock star, a school clown, a overthrow of Ustevs, a joker, a fighter for peace and an eccentric millionaire...-All this is John Lennon, creator of the Beatles group, one of the greatest and most mythologized musicians of the twentieth century. The writer and journalist Ray Konnolly created a detailed chronicle of this restless life - from a single childhood in the post -war Liverpool to the murder of a crazy fan - showing Lennon with a complex, contradictory, far from always “good” and pleasant person, but always alive, sincere and passionate. Connolly was close to Lennon, more than once interviewed him and other Beatles. In this book, he relies on his rich archive of documents, as well as on personal conversations with John, with his first and second wives - Synthia Lennon and Yoko - and with many other participants in the events. He is trying to truly understand his hero, who was constantly overwhelming himself and his biography, to get to the bottom of the causes of his actions, including strange and unexpected. In this volumetric work, a sea of ​​fascinating details from the life of Lennon, the history of the Beatles group and the entire era of the 1960s, but without textbook gloss, honest and unbiased.