9, 1975, is a great “triple play” in Lennon’s life.
With the American approach to Lennon, the first thing that leaps to the American mind is that Lennon is the honorary American. When you are talking about Lennon you are talking about a person with different myths. It’s a very problematic book, and a lot of Beatles scholars had problems with it. My biography of John Lennon is the first major American treatment of this subject since Al Goldman in 1988 (“The Lives of John Lennon”). Please tell me what distinguishes your book and moves the conversation forward. There are a number of books out there about the Beatles as a band and about individual members of the Beatles.
In a critical space, it has some weaknesses - strengths and weaknesses … I’m teaching my students at Emerson (College in Boston) all the time that there are bands that I hate, and bands that I love, and the band you love might put out an album that isn’t great, and the band you hate might do great work. So in this book the song is,” I Am The Walrus.” There are certain songs where I really love the song, but critically, I have to qualify it a little bit. I have been a practicing critic for over 25 years. Is it hard to be a fan and still keep a professional distance? I didn’t experience it as an adolescent, but after the fact. I never got to see them live, but I did see George Harrison in 19. I was so dazzled with what I was seeing that I became obsessed with the Beatles. My key memory of the Beatles is when I saw “Let It Be” in theaters when I was 10 years old. Would you consider yourself a Beatles fan?
He recently spoke about what he hopes his book will bring to the discussion about the Beatles, Lennon and their legacy. In “Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music – The Definitive Life,” published by Hyperion, he attempts to sort out perceptions of him among his American and British admirers – whom Riley said see the Lennon story arc quite differently. Riley, 51, who wrote the Beatles biography “Tell My Why,” published in 1988, has new book that attempts to sort out Beatles founding member John Lennon’s complex personal and professional life. The film is a documentary about the band rehearsing and recording songs for what would be the Beatles’ final album, “Let It Be,” released in 1970. Tim Riley describes himself as a devoted Beatles fan whom the band first won over when, as a 10-year-old, he saw the film “Let It Be.”
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