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Bowie's musical skills remained sharp, his sense of musical direction undiverted. Fame, from 1975's Young Americans, was co-written with John Lennon and Carlos Alomar; the result, besides being Bowie's biggest single up till then, has a good claim to being the first breakthrough disco song. By 1975 he was living in Los Angeles, in a vast rented house in Bel Air, keeping company with dabblers in black magic and refusing to see his old friends. One of them, who managed to penetrate his defenses, recalls watching Bowie work his way through a long night of coke...
...once, go floating plumply around the altar, pink dreams of the ineffable. Friends and family lean forward in their pews. The clergyperson beams inscrutably, abetting the thing, but keeping counsel. The guests are both fascinated and faintly appalled to be privy to such intense and theatrical whisperings. John Lennon and Yoko Ono once held press conferences while lying in bed, and the effect of the self-made vows is sometimes obscurely the same...
...Epstein when he was running the record department at one of the family music stores in Liverpool. Managing a scraggly rock quartet was a sideline. Epstein exalted the Beatles, of course, and was consumed by them. He was smitten with them all, and almost crazily in love with John Lennon. Brown attended at the beginning of all this and stayed past the end, when the Beatles set out on separate paths and their company, Apple, just went bad at the core. Brown was a Beatles businessman-executive director of their management company, NEMS Enterprises, and director of Apple...
...Incest." Ringo was a dedicated jet-setter whose solid but unexceptional drumming talents were eventually unequal to the demands of the more complex Beatles music; Paul had to dub in Ringo's parts in the studio. Epstein agonized over a merchandising deal that lost the Beatles millions, but Lennon consoled himself with cash delivered by concert promoters in brown paper bags. Epstein took 25%, and the band got the rest. As young, hungry rockers playing in Hamburg, West Germany, the Beatles contracted, and were cured of, any number of venereal diseases. Later, rich and famous beyond anyone...
Shadowing and shading everything is John Lennon, who took the longest and most harrowing voyage of all the Beatles. He had finally reached a kind of peace and understanding after some sexual profligacy and a bit of doubt (he had, this book claims, a dalliance with Epstein). He had also been through the entire contemporary catechism of drugs and come out whole, and even a little certain. When he lay on the back seat of a squad car, bleeding from seven bullet wounds, and a policeman asked him the routine question, "Do you know who you are?," he could just...