Description: From the bestselling author of "Shout" comes an extraordinarily detailed, vibrant, in-depth account of the life of John Lennon--the most deeply researched and comprehensive biography to date. 16-page color photo insert; 16-page b&w photo insert.

Description: For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore-his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. The book's numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon-whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never before-and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John.Honest and unflinching, as John himself would wish, Norman gives us the whole man in all his endless contradictions-tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, vulnerable and insecure-and reveals how the mother who gave him away as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the rest of his days.

菲利普·諾曼（1943—），小說傢、傳記作傢、記者及劇作傢，自上世紀60年代起供職於《星期日泰晤士報》，調查並報道瞭“披頭士”樂隊解散的原因，著有《呐喊！披頭士的時代》（Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation）、《約翰·列儂傳》等，他還為滾石樂隊、艾爾頓?約翰等人寫過傳記。

約翰·列儂（John Lennon, 1940.10.9—1980.12.8），英國搖滾歌手，作麯傢，和平主義者，披頭士（甲殼蟲，Beatles）樂隊的靈魂人物。在二十世紀六七十年代風靡世界，至今仍擁有無數歌迷，深刻影響瞭現代流行文化的發展。其狂放不羈、特立獨行的個性讓他名滿天下，亦謗滿天下。1980年，列儂遇刺身亡。

英國作傢菲利普·諾曼經過多年調查，做瞭大量采訪，在本書中為我們生動展現瞭列儂從草根歌手到傑齣音樂人的傳奇一生。