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For more than a quarter century; biographer Philip Normans internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now; at last; Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources; and with unprecedented access to all the major characters; Norman presents the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon ever published.This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennons much-chronicled life; including the songs that have turned him; posthumously; into a near-secular saint. In three years of research; Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folkloremdash;his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation; primal scream therapy; and drugs. The books numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney; Sir George Martin; Sean Lennonmdash;whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never seen beforemdash;and Yoko Ono; who speaks with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John.ldquo;[A] haunting; mammoth; terrific piece of work.rdquo; -New York Times Honest and unflinching; as John himself would wish; Norman gives us the whole man in all his endless contradictionsmdash;tough and cynical; hilariously funny but also naive; vulnerable and insecuremdash;and reveals how the mother who gave him away as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the rest of his days.