John Lennon: The Life Audiobook (Free)

For more than a one fourth century, biographer Philip Norman’s internationally bestselling Shout! continues to be unchallenged simply because the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman becomes his formidable skill towards the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the main characters, Norman presents the comprehensive and most uncovering family portrait of John Lennon ever published.

This masterly biography requires a fresh and about John Lennon: The Life penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon’s much-chronicled life, including the songs which have turned him, posthumously, right into a near-secular saint. In 3 years of research, Norman has resulted in an extraordinary amount of new information regarding even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore-his upbringing by his rigid Aunt Mimi; his allegedly squandered school and student days; the progression of his peerless innovative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair using a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his tests with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and medicines. The book’s several key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon-whose moving reminiscence shows his father as never noticed before-and Yoko Ono, who talks with sometimes surprising candor about the inner workings of her relationship to John.

“[A] haunting, mammoth, fantastic piece of work.” -New York Moments

Honest and unflinching, as John himself would desire, Norman gives us the whole man in all his unlimited contradictions-tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, susceptible and insecure-and reveals how the mom who gave him apart as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the others of his times.