Book

Author:	John Lennon
Title:	Daily Howl
Publisher:	Self-Published
Country:	UK
Date:	1955
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Humour
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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This is an exercise book filled by John Lennon with cartoons, poems and funny stories. He would read it aloud to his Quarry Bank school mates.

John was to say, "One of my earlier efforts at writing was a 'newspaper' called the Daily Howl. I would write it at night, then take it to school and read it aloud to my friends; looking at it now it seems strangely similar to the Goon Show! Even the title had 'highly esteemed' before it!"

Between 18 May 2018 and 3 November 2019, the Museum of Liverpool Life hosted a major exhibition telling John Lennon and Yoko Ono's story in their own words - Double Fantasy - John & Yoko. The exhibition was made possible with the kind permission of Yoko Ono Lennon.

Among the items on display was an original copy of John's 1955 Daily Howl, written when he was 15 and now part of the LennonOno Archives. The images of the Daily Howl in this entry were taken from that exhibition.

John had begun filling composition books with what he called the Daily Howl when he was twelve. With its drawings, news stories, weather reports, and commentaries, the Daily Howl provided an early outlet for the nonsensical humour, irony, and sarcasm that would become hallmarks of John’s later work.

It’s uncertain how many editions of the Daily Howl John produced. Loose pages of an original manuscript were sold in the 1988 auction at Sotheby’s in London for £12,000.

A small eight-page reproduction of some of the pages from this Daily Howl was included in James Henke’s Lennon Legend: An Illustrated Life Of John Lennon, published in 2003 following the exhibition Lennon: His Life and Work which opened at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio in October 2000.

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