The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman

The Lives of John Lennon

by Albert Goldman

William Morrow and Company, 1988, First edition
Black and white photographic plates
ISBN 0688047211
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Good
A little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, a little staining and crumpling to back cover and spine, a little crumpling to bottom corner of text block. Dustjacket very good with a little edge and shelf wear, a little staining (underside) (see photographs)

“When John Lennon was shot outside the Dakota in December 1980, he was one of the most famous men in the world.  Adored in life as the Magical Minstrel who called the tune of the Sixties, he was mourned in death as the martyred saint of the international peace movement.  Yet it was neither as a pop star nor as a guru that he most deserved to be honoured but rather as an inspired contemporary voice, a modern tone-poet with a genius for employing the resources for rock music and vernacular speech to render the heart and soul of the here and now…”