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Author:	Larry Kane
Title:	Lennon Revealed
Publisher:	Running Press
Country:	USA
Date:	6 Sep 2005
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Biography, Music
ISBN-13:	9780762423644
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
Price Guide:	$14
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296 pages. Inludes DVD.

From 2005:

John Lennon-working class hero, rebel with a cause, citizen of the world. He would have been 65 this year. A quarter of a century after his death, the questions remain: what was John Lennon really like, what drove him to the heights of creativity and the depths of despair, and why do his music and message still resonate for millions around the world?

Now acclaimed broadcast journalist and author Larry Kane uncovers the mysteries of Lennon's life and implodes the myths surrounding it. Kane definitely has the right credentials for the job. He was the only American reporter who travelled in the Beatles' official entourage to every stop on their history-making first American tours, and he stayed in touch with Lennon until an assassin ended the former Beatle's life.

Lennon Revealed is filled with revelations about John Lennon's path from public glory to personal destruction, and ultimately to the inspiring rebirth that defines a triumph of the spirit. Drawing on extensive personal accounts and extraordinary new interviews with more than 50 confidants and experts - most notably, with Yoko Ono - Kane brings the reader closer than ever to the man who, in life and in death, has had a singular impact on humanity. Kane also provides stunning new information about Lennon's relationships with Ono, his childhood soulmate Stuart Sutcliffe, his lover May Pang, and Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

The book includes an exclusive DVD featuring the final filmed interview with Lennon and Paul McCartney, conducted by Larry Kane in 1968. Brief clips from this famous interview have appeared in just a few places, including the official documentary Imagine.

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JPGR&B SUBS 3rd May 2022		Review Annotation: Includes DVD. The DVD features the last filmed interview with Lennon and Paul McCartney, conducted by Kane in 1968 when the two were in New York to announce the formation of Apple. The former Philadelphia anchor man dredges his memories of covering The Beatles and few encounters with Lennon afterward to pad this hagiography. Kane covered the Beatle tours as a radio reporter and his book about them, Ticket to Ride, is an excellent fly-on-the-wall account. Here, however, he takes his material and pads it with uniform praise for the group and nearly everyone who knew or worked with them. He then tacks on 33 pages of fan letters. One major drawback here is that there is too much fulsome prose: The Shea Stadium concert? 'An epic moment in contemporary entertainment'; onetime band mate Stuart Sutcliffe? 'In the formative years of John's march to eternal greatness, Stu Sutcliffe was a colossal figure'. Even Beatle experts are not spared this praise, with one authority called 'the world's greatest scholar' on the group. Tony Bramwell is mysteriously described as a 'British musical icon'; such gushing is, for this reader, unjustifiable. While this text could be described as an appropriate study in journalistic licence, the DVD it comes packaged with, an uncut interview Kane conducted with John and Paul from 1968, is a truly a fascinating glimpse into the tense chemistry between the two frontmen shortly before they went their separate ways. To its credit, the prose settles down considerably when Kane describes the private moments he shared with Lennon while on tour. The aforementioned accompanying 40-minute DVD mixes a promotional interview with Kane with that 13-minute Lennon and McCartney interview (an important moment, the last one they did together in America), together with a few seconds of Lennon giving the weather report as part of a charity telethon at Kane's Philadelphia station. Perhaps this is overall something of a curate's egg: agreeable in parts, but a little unsatisfactory as a whole; nevertheless Larry Kane has a great memory for detail. This is not a tell-all or expose, therefore, despite several flaws, is a recommended text. Michael Brocken Source: The Beatles Bibliography: A New Guide To The Literature - Michael Brocken and Melissa Davis (The Beatle Works Ltd., 2012), with acknowledgement, and used here with permission from the authors for educational and historical purposes only. ✔︎ Helpful Review?