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Free audiobook download: John Lennon: The Life - Volume 1

Discover the stories behind some of the most definitive musicians of our generation with our series of music biographies. The first is John Lennon: The Life - Volume 1 by Philip Norman.

guardian.co.uk, Friday 29 June 2012

John Lennon: The Life - Volume 1 by Philip Norman

For more than a quarter of a 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 most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.

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 naïve, 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.

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