Ebook {Epub PDF} Memories of John Lennon by Yoko Ono

 · memories of john lennon edited by Yoko Ono ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 1, Imagine a John Lennon tribute that doesn’t serve as a mild sedative.  · Throughout reading Memories of John Lennon by Yoko Ono, I felt a lot of inspiration. John Lennon stood out among The Beatles as an inspiration and role model. For any true Beatles or John Lennon fan, I suggest reading this book. Yoko reaches out /5. Absent Yoko there might not be much at all. A memoir of John Lennon by Yoko would likely be a transAtlantic bestseller. To write it would be a great service to Beatles, Lennon and Yoko fans alike. To die with it still unwritten would be a tremendous DISS-ervice to everyone, including John/5(45).

Yoko Ono didn't know who John Lennon was — "She'd only heard of Ringo, I think," Lennon told Rolling Stone in They were both shy; she later approached him for financial backing for one of her art shows and gave him a copy of her book Grapefruit. And in reading the book, he said, he began to fall in love with her. Review. Twenty-five years after his death is still too soon for Yoko Ono to write about life with her famous husband. "I could not open that part of my heart while it's still shaking," she writes in her introduction to Memories of John Lennon, and so the long-awaited inside story of one of the last century's great romances remains untold. John Lennon, the beloved former Beatle, and Yoko Ono, the enigmatic artist, were the strangest power couple of the '70s. Some believed Ono had broken up the Beatles. Lennon was making art and movies and Ono was making music, and a lot of it was inaccessible or simply unappealing to the public. Sure, they seemed to be in love -- an eerie, all-in.

In this unique and evocative book, Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, gathers together memories from fans, friends, and colleagues about the inspirin. 'My first encounter with John Lennon gave me a sense of humility, which is funny in a way. The Beatles were such a big deal then - this was in , before we had made a record - and we weren't really anyone.'. He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of life—including some of the great artists of our day—reminisce about Lennon as a visionary and friend, musician and performer, husband and father, activist and jokester. In their own words and drawings, poems and photos, Lennon's life from his childhood through the Beatles years to the happiness and tragedy of. Rather than a biography in the traditional sense, this is rather a book of memories from the early sixties right up to and after John Lennon's tragic death. Instead of memories from the individual himself as one would expect, it is a collection of thoughts and anecdotes from almost eighty people, all of whom have something of insight and value to say about John.