# Being John Lennon

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- Book: [Being John Lennon](https://www.bookquiver.com/ray-connolly/being-john-lennon) ([Being John Lennon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ray-connolly/being-john-lennon.md))
- Authors: [Ray Connolly](https://www.bookquiver.com/ray-connolly)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7460-683-7
- Published: 2018-10-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a famously troubled life, Being John Lennon analyses the contradictions in the singer-songwriter's creative and destructive personality. Drawing on many interviews and conversations with Lennon, his first wife Cynthia and second Yoko Ono, as well as his girlfriend May Pang and song-writing partner Paul McCartney, Ray Connolly unsparingly reassesses the chameleon nature of the perpetually dissatisfied star who just couldn't stop reinventing himself.