Word: yoko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...executive director of their management company, NEMS Enterprises, and director of Apple-but he was also part of the Beatles family. He served as best man at the Lennon-Ono wedding and rated a mention in Lennon's rocking celebration of that event, The Ballad of John and Yoko. Throughout The Love You Make, Brown studiously keeps himself in the background, while the Beatles are pushed forward into the glare of revisionist celebrity. The book is like a police lineup lit by limelight...
...regular readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko...
Through first-hand testimony and accounts of those who knew him well, The Ballad of John and Yoko admirably describes Lennon's battle. All the bitterness of the Beatles break-up pours from the "Lennon Remembers" interview. Cheat Flippo provides voyeurs with a delightful inside look at Lennon in "retirement." And Robert Christian enthralls with his inimitable analysis of Lennon's songs...
...ultimately, what makes The Battle of John and Yoko so appealing is the detailed portrait it paints of one of the most celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon...