But his facts feel straight to me, beneath the overheated rhetoric. Goldman shamelessly over-writes, throwing about nasty characterizations that wind up looking pretty ridiculous. I’d avoided reading it because Paul McCartney told me to back then. But his facts feel str This came out in 1988 and caused a huge scandal because it suggested that Lennon helped murder a Hamburg sailor he was rolling, and also killed Stu Sutcliffe by kicking him in the head, that he had a long-term homosexual affair with Brian Epstein, etc. This came out in 1988 and caused a huge scandal because it suggested that Lennon helped murder a Hamburg sailor he was rolling, and also killed Stu Sutcliffe by kicking him in the head, that he had a long-term homosexual affair with Brian Epstein, etc. I went to the movies to see something else, I really didn't wanna see a bloody film about Lennon, but lo! it turned out to be a great little movie.more And while I'm on that subject, Beatley John fans should not miss the recent British film "Nowhere Boy" which is about this very period. That said, the first 200 pages are a great detailed and convincing account of JL's complex upbringing and when it was published 90% of this stuff was new to me. It's entrancing to read a book of such unmediated contempt, for according to Goldman, Beatley John was a paranoid violent junkie who probably murdered Stu Sutcliffe and whose every song was a variation of Three Blind Mice. But Lennon fans probably owe it to themselves to chomp through this pile of bile, this ream of spleen, these 700 pages of hate-mail, as a cold turkey shock therapy corrective to the meretricious Saint John vomitoriums usually coughed up by the hacks, half-friends, distant relatives and showbiz bindweed who throng the Beatley shelves. It's entrancing to read a book of such unmediated contempt, for according to Goldman, Beatley John w If you're going to read this you need to have a sick bag ready. If you're going to read this you need to have a sick bag ready.
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