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John Lennon-working class hero, rebel with a cause, citizen of the world. He would have been 65 this year. A quarter of a century after his death, the questions remain: what was John Lennon really like, what drove him to the heights of creativity and the depths of despair, and why do his music and message still resonate for millions around the world? Now acclaimed broadcast journalist and author Larry Kane uncovers the mysteries of Lennons life and implodes the myths surrounding it. Kane definitely has the right credentials for the job. He was the only American reporter who traveled in the Beatles official entourage to every stop on their history-making first American tours, and he stayed in touch with Lennon until an assassin ended the former Beatles life. Lennon Revealed is filled with revelations about John Lennons path from public glory to personal destruction, and ultimately to the inspiring rebirth that defines a triumph of the spirit. Drawing on extensive personal accounts and extraordinary new interviews with more than 50 confidants and experts-most notably, with Yoko Ono-Kane brings the reader closer than ever to the man who, in life and in death, has had a singular impact on humanity. Kane also provides stunning new information about Lennons relationships with Ono, his childhood soulmate Stuart Sutcliffe, his lover May Pang, and Beatles manager Brian Epstein. The book includes an exclusive DVD featuring the final filmed interview with Lennon and Paul McCartney, conducted by Larry Kane in 1968. Brief clips from this famous interview have appeared in just a few places, including the official documentary Imagine.
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ALSO BY LARRY KANE:
Larry Kanes Philadelphia
Ticket to Ride:
Inside the Beatles 1964 Tour
that Changed the World
Inside the Beatles 1964 Tour
that Changed the World
FOR DONNA, MICHAEL, ALEXANDRA AND DOUG.
AND TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN LENNON.
AND TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN LENNON.
FOREWORD
I knew John Lennon. Not as much as some, but not as little as most. He was an inspiration to me and millions of others searching for truth, peace, and love. He spread the word through his music first, then by his actions. John set the tone for an entire generation to make a difference, and even when we fell short, he started chipping away at it.
I have read dozens of books on Johns life, and this book has come the closest to the truth as far as Im concerned. Larry Kane has put together not just his own personal thoughts on John Lennon, his friend, but has compiled an incredible lineup of interviews from Johns closest friends and family. Not at all cautious, Larry has gone for what I think John would have wanted... the bloody truth!
You read that John Lennon was a bastard, a genius, a womanizer, a thinker, a poet, funny, cynical, sad, and a lot more. I know how I knew him in L.A. in the seventies: he was lost, angry, and missed Yoko more than music. He would have given anything just to go home. My friend, Harry Nilsson, was good at causing trouble, and John was looking for it. I was just a young musician hanging out with my idol. I wanted to be him, and I remember he would always let me ask one Beatles question every time I was with him... then he would tell me to f%#k off!
One drunken night, John put his arm around me and said, Hudson, ( I dont think he knew which Hudson brother was which ) keep looking for the truth, and when you find it, tell me where it is. I will never forget that moment.
There are a million moments like that in this book. I thought I had read it all, seen it all... hell, Im Ringos producer! I thought I had all the storiesWRONG! Larry Kane revealed things I never dreamed of. On the North American tours of 64 and 65, John trusted Larry, so he opened up parts of his heart that maybe only Paul, George, and Ringo were privy too. When I read the account of John and Larry meeting for the first time, I had to laugh out loud because the impression that Larry gives is that of a hardcore news reportersuit, tie, low monotone voiceand he has the demeanor of a Republican. Well, looks can be deceiving, and I was wrong When you read this book, you see a man with great conviction, passion, humor, integrity, and honestyJohn Lennons kind of guy. Thats why they stayed friends over the years: trust.
Larrys perspective and insights throughout this book kept me completely captivated. I relished the many nuances he revealed about the man who changed my life, and learned the kind of details that any fan would love to read aboutMario the young confidant who passed Johns letters to Yoko and May; Petula Clark singing on Give Peace a Chance; Yokos presence in Johns life even through his Lost Weekend; and so much more. I could go on and on, but I wont. Just read the bloody book and make your own mind up!
I only know one thing for sure: I loved John Lennon, and this book makes me love him more.
Mark Hudson, Los Angeles, 2005
PREFACE
WHO WAS JOHN LENNON AND WHY DO WE CARE?
Brash. Sensitive. Sexually empowered. A bad father and a good father. A dead poet whose language resonates with life. A rebel with more than a few causes. A rock star who entered new galaxies. Husband. Lover. Freedom fighter. Thinker, drinker, drug user and abuser. Guitarist, pianist, mouth organist. A singer of songs that haunt the mind and infuse the blood with tingles of joy and fear. A writer. A friend. A lost soul. A teacher and a student. A tiger with an intimidating roar and a cat with a soft, gentle purr. Legend in life. Icon in death. And to many, a puzzle. But was he really?
LENNON REVEALED?
For years before and for a quarter of a century after his life, pundits and politicians, reporters and would-be-reporters have tried to determine: who was John Lennon? This project intends to do moreto reveal John Lennon as a man, not just a myth; to slice through the myriad legends that accompanied his magnificent and creative presence; and to discover the real person through the visions and memories of people who knew him. It is a complicated journalistic assignment, fraught with attempts by people to carefully protect their own memories and overwhelmed by people who still have agendas.
What you will find in this book is an unfettered report from all angles and every point of view about a man whose physical presence is gone, but whose talent and message still live into this century and beyond.
First, a few thoughts on how I got to this particular place.
Reporters are impressionists. Our works do not appear on canvasses, but reflect the imprints on our minds. And in 1964, my twenty-one-year-old mind held a very ambivalent impression of the assignment I had capturedto travel with and report on the Beatles throughout their first tour of North America. Trained as a hard-driving, aggressive gatherer of information, I viewed the coverage of the Beatles tour as a job for someone with a more narrow view of the world, maybe even someone with rhythm and knowledge of musicboth of which were foreign to me. I did play the accordion as a child, but, well, it was the accordion, and I was not very good. Frankly, as a hard news radio reporter, I would rather have covered a bank robbery than travel with a band, any band.
Admittedly, the assignment was my fault. The radio station management had initially asked me to secure a short interview with the Beatles in what would be their closest tour stop to Miami, the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. My letter to Beatles manager Brian Epstein included a business card that listed all seven of my companys radio stations, six of them oriented to black audiences who were hardly Beatles fans. Epstein did not know I was so young, but he did believe, mistakenly, that I was some sort of radio mogul in control of multiple stations. When the invitation came to travel in their official press party on the entire tour of North Americathirty-two shows in twenty-five citiesI was flabbergasted. I was also immediately determined not to go. My negativity was informed not only by my lack of interest in the subject, but, more importantly, by the death of my mother that summer at the age of forty after a battle with multiple sclerosis. Her death wasand still isthe worst thing that has ever happened to me. Eleven years later, John Lennon would mark her life and death in a special way. In the meantime, I had to decide what to do. Fate does not wait for indecision; indecision is a fault line for great reporting careers.
Reluctantly, I went forward. With five years of radio news reporting and anchoring behind me, I tackled what I believed at the time to be a wasted and vacuous assignment, covering what would become known as the biggest tour in the history of musicthe Beatles invasion of America and Canada. It would be the first of their two tours that I would cover in full. In the end, I would watch sixty-three Beatles concerts, witness their work on a movie, engage in countless hours of conversation with the four lads who would make so much history, and see my life and my viewpoint of what is and isnt news change forever. In the ensuing years, I have covered twenty-one political conventions, several superpower summits, seven different presidents, disastrous hurricanes and earthquakes, military combat, and the everyday ups and downs of ordinary people. Ultimately my career would take me to Philadelphia, where I anchored the TV news for thirty-seven years.
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