John Lennon In His Own Words
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few voices in the twentieth century cut as deeply as John Lennon's — raw, irreverent, visionary, and unflinchingly honest — and John Lennon In His Own Words gathers that voice into one electrifying collection. Compiled by music biographer Barry Miles, this anthology presents Lennon's own quotes, interviews, and pronouncements drawn from across his entire career, from his early days storming Hamburg with The Beatles to his final years as a peace activist and solo artist in New York City. Rather than filtering his life through a biographer's lens, the book grants the reader direct, unmediated access to the man himself — his wit, his contradictions, his philosophies on art, love, politics, and fame. The result is a portrait of a cultural titan that is both intimate and monumental, illustrating how Lennon's words were as revolutionary as his music. Miles, a central figure in the 1960s London counterculture and a chronicler of its key figures, brings an authoritative curatorial hand to the material, allowing Lennon's candour and sharp intelligence to shine on every page. Touching on themes of identity, celebrity, anti-war activism, and creative reinvention, this is a document that resonates far beyond its era — leaving the reader to wonder what else this singular, mercurial mind might have said, had the world not been silenced so abruptly.
Author: Miles
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Omnibus Press
Genre: Music
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few voices in the twentieth century cut as deeply as John Lennon's — raw, irreverent, visionary, and unflinchingly honest — and John Lennon In His Own Words gathers that voice into one electrifying collection. Compiled by music biographer Barry Miles, this anthology presents Lennon's own quotes, interviews, and pronouncements drawn from across his entire career, from his early days storming Hamburg with The Beatles to his final years as a peace activist and solo artist in New York City. Rather than filtering his life through a biographer's lens, the book grants the reader direct, unmediated access to the man himself — his wit, his contradictions, his philosophies on art, love, politics, and fame. The result is a portrait of a cultural titan that is both intimate and monumental, illustrating how Lennon's words were as revolutionary as his music. Miles, a central figure in the 1960s London counterculture and a chronicler of its key figures, brings an authoritative curatorial hand to the material, allowing Lennon's candour and sharp intelligence to shine on every page. Touching on themes of identity, celebrity, anti-war activism, and creative reinvention, this is a document that resonates far beyond its era — leaving the reader to wonder what else this singular, mercurial mind might have said, had the world not been silenced so abruptly.