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LoPresti consultant Michael Goldman, whom the candidate praised for having "put together this campaign," said he was not surprised that Travaglini conceded before all the votes were tallied. He added that the LoPresti campaign had expected to lose big in East Boston, so the less than staggering defeat there told LoPresti supporters that their man would win. It was "Michael's race--if he worked hard he was going to win," Goldman said...
Lennon, on the other hand, was too smart, self-deprecating and evasive to be an easy target for ridicule. Well into his book, Goldman drops a small complaint about the difficulties he had in getting at the truth of his subject: "Interview a score of people who interacted strongly with Lennon and you will get a score of Lennons, each one a man highly congenial to your source." This problem with evidence suggests why Goldman wrote The Lives, rather than The Life, in his title. The complications do not end here. Those eyewitnesses to facets of Lennon's life...
This skewed perspective undoubtedly highlights Lennon at his absolute worst. Adrift, he was a very bad piece of work: a drunken, heroin-addicted woman basher and room wrecker who was catatonically depressed and dependent on his manipulative wife. At the same time, Goldman's emphasis dovetails nicely with the revised version of his own life that Lennon peddled during his last years. He disparaged the Beatles and his role in their success. He told one interviewer: "We sold out, you know. The music was dead before we even went on the theater tour of Britain." Goldman obediently parrots this view...
...good reason, since the idea is crazy. Even Goldman recognizes that the discipline accepted by the Beatles proved liberating. With the album Rubber Soul, he writes, "Lennon was employing the new medium of pop song like a serious artist." In fact, when Lennon could harness his wit and rage within commercial demands, he simply blew away restraints and claimed new territory for the popular imagination. What, then, compelled him to destroy the most successful performing group on earth? Why did he consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when...
Author Albert Goldman strips bare the best and brightest of the Beatles in his controversial biography The Lives of John Lennon...