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Author:	Patrick Cadogan
Title:	The Revolutionary Artist
Subtitle:	John Lennon's Radical Years
Publisher:	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Country:	USA
Date:	3 Mar 2009
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Music, Biography, History
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9781441427311
First Published:	2008
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272 pages. Book dimensions: 15.24 cms x 1.55 cms x 22.86 cms.

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John Lennon began his career as an ordinary pop star who made extraordinary music. He slowly began to evolve as his fame grew and became radicalized through meetings and associations with sixties activists. During this time, John referring to himself as a "revolutionary artist." The Revolutionary Artist is an examination of Lennon's forays into activism, his political views, and the music he created during the period. This edition is fully revised and updated. Specific areas of focus include: an in-depth look at the 1969 Montreal bed-in, with extensive and wide-ranging interviews; a previously unreleased transcript of peace seminar Lennon attended at the University of Ottawa; discussions between John and Yoko recorded during their Primal Therapy sessions in 1970; a song-by-song analysis of Lennon's first three major solo releases, with commentary from John; an analysis of all of the songs that John and Paul wrote as the Beatles from Lennon's perspective in 1972.

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JPGR&B SUBS 13th Apr 2022		Review Annotation: Cadogan claims that John Lennon began his career as 'an ordinary pop star who made extraordinary music'. Lennon, according to this matrix, slowly began to 'evolve' as his fame grew, and this personal advancement also involved Lennon's radicalization via meetings and associations with late-sixties activists. During this time, there is some evidence that Lennon referred to himself, somewhat scurrilously perhaps, as a 'revolutionary artist' and it is on this expression, that the author focuses his attention. So, 'The Revolutionary Artist' is an attempt at examining Lennon's incursions into activism, his perhaps formless political views, and of course the music he created during that rather ill-defined period. Specific areas of focus include an interesting look at the 1969 Montreal bed-in, plus interviews; a previously unreleased transcript of a far less interesting peace seminar attended by Lennon at the University of Ottawa; discussions between John and Yoko recorded during the Janov primal scream therapy of 1970; and a song-by-song analysis of Lennon's first three solo releases, together with bits and pieces of commentary from John Lennon running through the songs he and Paul McCartney wrote as Beatles. This is mostly more recycling, together with a massive assumption from the author concerning Lennon's politicised nature. To this day there remains scant evidence of Lennon ever having read Hegel, Marx, or indeed Mao, the texts that so infatuated the London-based counter cultural 'intelligentsia' that (according to some) so influenced Lennon. But there is a greater problem here, too, for Cadogan merely focuses his research upon this seemingly revolutionary aspect of Lennon because he (the author) likes the idea. So, for all of its so-called methodological rigour (it is actually a 'bits-stuck-anywhere' text), there is little evidence that the interdisciplinary demands of such a complex project have been considered. This work, therefore, is a classic example of an aspect of John Lennon's past produced by someone in the present day corresponding to the usual old a priori assumptions. 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?

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