In Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon, Robert Rosen takes us on an intimate journey through Lennon’s last years, from his self-imposed five-year seclusion to his re-entry into public life with the recording of his final album, Double Fantasy.
Shortly after Lennon’s murder by Mark Chapman in 1980, Rosen was given access to the ex-Beatle’s personal journals covering the last six years of his life. Inspired by those diaries, Rosen began an odyssey that literally put him in John’s shoes. Immersing himself in the events and places of Lennon’s life, he retraced John’s steps through New York, Bermuda, and Palm Beach, studied the occult, and interviewed key figures from the Dakota years.
In a biography that is both myth shattering and humanizing, we see John’s torturous, sometimes irrational, struggle with his phobias, self-doubts, and obsessions; life decisions great and small are based on Tarot card readings, numerological calculations, and the position of the planet Mercury. Like the line in the song Nowhere Man, "isn’t he a bit like you and me," John also shares the same concerns as most of us: maintaining his weight, feeling guilty over his binges, worrying about his children. Though he lived in a rarified world where nearly every fantasy could be accommodated - vacations, shopping sprees, household servants - Lennon could not find contentment. Yet, finally prodded by Paul McCartney’s string of hit songs, he emerged from his isolation to create some of his most compelling music ever.
Skillfully applying the same finely honed reporting techniques to the inevitable ending, Rosen brilliantly depicts the tragic intersection of Mark Chapman’s psychotic decline and John Lennon’s creative renewal
The trade paperback edition has been updated with photography, an expanded introduction, and an epilogue with revealing updates on the lives of Lennon’s friends and family. Fifteen black & white photographs bring to life not only the Dakota era but also Lennon’s memories of the years of Beatlemania. The revised introduction features additional material from Rosen’s own 1979-81 diaries, which were recently returned to him after being held for 18 years by the Lennon estate.
Quick American Archives is releasing Nowhere Man in conjunction with key anniversary dates:
October 9, John’s birthday; he would have turned 62
December 8, anniversary of Lennon’s assassination
February 18, 2003, Yoko Ono’s 70th birthday.
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i think its so crazy that u copy a text from a pamplet and claim to be such a huge lennon fan, yet you spell his name wrong!!! (its LENNON) are you retarded or just high?
