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The official version of Lennon's Dakota days paints him as a happy, eccentric househusband raising Sean and baking bread while Yoko ran the family business. "Nowhere Man" shatters this carefully nurtured myth and reveals the truth - the tormented superstar, locked in his bedroom, afraid to step outside his front door, raving about Jesus Christ while a retinue of servants tended to his every need. Imprisoned by his fame, haunted by his unhappy childhood and turbulent relationship with Paul McCartney, paranoid and insecure, and carrying the burden of being revered by multitudes of fans around the world, he was slowly falling apart. Obsessed with numerology and astrology and taking too many drugs, his life was spiralling out of control. For Lennon, at this time, his journals were his religion - he listed every detail, every conversation, every dream. Five months after Lennon's murder, his personal assistant gave Robert Rosen, a New York journalist, the ex-Beatle's diaries and entrusted him with writing the true story of Lennon's final years. This book is the result.
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There has been much written in the press about the fact that in 1981, under controversial circumstances, I transcribed John Lennon's private diaries. Now, 20 years later, what is being described as my "poignant" and "controversial" book, "Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon," has finally been published to worldwide acclaim. According to the October 2000 issue of "Mojo," it's the #1 rock 'n' roll book in the UK. For this I am grateful.
What I tried to do in "Nowhere Man" is get inside Lennon's head unlike any book ever has. I did this by using my knowledge of his diaries as a road map to the truth. In other words, I tried to tell the truth as John saw it. It was my intention to paint the most honest and emotionally accurate three-dimensional portrait of John Lennon as a human being that I was capable of doing. He comes off as neither a rock 'n' roll saint, as some biographies would have you believe, nor a degenerate murderer who could barely play the guitar, as others suggest. Lennon was a flawed and complicated man. Ultimately, he was The Great Searcher, a man who looked everywhere for The Answer but never found it. By the time you're finished reading "Nowhere Man," you will know how it feels to have been John Lennon, and that is a devastating yet sublime experience. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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FIVE DAYS AFTER JOHN LENNON WAS MURDERED, HIS personal assistant, Fred Seaman, a close friend, came to my apartment. Read the first page
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FIVE DAYS AFTER JOHN LENNON WAS MURDERED, HIS personal assistant, Fred Seaman, a close friend, came to my apartment. Read the first page
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