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Drei Sterne für ein derart umfangreiches Werk erscheinen verhältnismäßig wenig. Wer immer schon alles nur erdenkliche Schlechte über John Lennon und noch Schlimmeres über Yoko Ono lesen wollte, wird von Albert Goldman umfassend informiert. Er lässt keine Schweinerei aus, für die der gern Friedensapostel verehrte Ex-Beatle verantwortlich war und erst recht keinen Scheißhaufen, in den der gern möglichst verantwortungsfreie Weltverbesserer getappt ist.
So weit, so gut oder auch schlecht, John Lennon war eine arme, reich gewordene Sau, deren Leben in Fremdbestimmung begann und endete. Ein gewalttätiger Mensch, der unter die Fuchtel einer willensstarken Pseudo-Künstlerin geriet, die auf ihren Mann herab sah und seine Projekte sabotierte.
Goldmann lässt zwar auch keine Gemeinheit des kleinen John aus, der seine Unsicherheit durch aggressives und diskriminerendes Verhalten kompensierte, aber zwei Drittel seines Buches sind John und Yoko, bzw. deren Affären, Drogen und den Durchstechereien von Yokos Günstlingen gewidmet.
Goldman schnappt dabei nach jedem nur erdenklichen Brocken, ohne je Quellenkritik zu üben oder den Wahrheitsgehalt näher unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Von daher gebe ich nur drei Sterne, weil d
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The Lives of John Lennon
Book by Albert Goldman
The Lives of John Lennon is a biography of musician John Lennon by American author Albert Goldman. The book is a product of several years of research and hundreds of interviews with Lennon's friends, acquaintances, servants, and musicians. It is best known for its criticism and generally negative representation of the personal lives of Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono.
The book contains numerous factual inaccuracies and was largely dismissed by those who knew Lennon personally.
Lennon in the work
[edit]When first published in , The Lives of John Lennon was controversial because of its portrayal of Lennon in a highly critical light. Lennon was presented in the book as a talented but deeply flawed man who manipulated people and relationships throughout his life, flinging them aside when they were no longer useful to him. Goldman, who was Jewish, also suggested that Lennon was an anti-Semite, that he was a heavy drug user, and that he was dyslexic and schizophrenic.
Sexuality
[edit]The book goes into detail about the long-rumoured homosexual affair between Lennon and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein (previously discussed in both Pete Shotton’s Lennon in My Life and Peter Brown's The Love You Make), as well a