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Come together : John Lennon in his time / Jon Wiener.
LIBRA ML420.L38 W5 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiener, Jon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lennon, John, 1940-1980.
- Lennon, John.
- Rock musicians--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 379 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Illini books ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- "Engagingly written by a professional historian, Come Together recreates two decades of rock and rebellion, from the formation of the Beatles in 1960 to the assassination of John Lennon in 1980." -- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: FBI rock criticism
- Part I: Prologue. "The dream is over"
- First steps toward radical politics : the 1966 tour
- Part II: Rock against revolution. Private Gripweed and Yoko Ono
- Sgt. Pepper and flower power
- From Brian Epstein to the Maharishi
- May '68 : rock against revolution
- Part III: Avant-garde peacenik. Two virgins
- Avant-garde peacenik
- The "renunciation of what the Beatles had stood for"
- Hanratty and Michael X
- Altamont and Toronto
- Part IV: Personal/political artist. Primal therapy and the breakup
- Working class hero
- The red mole
- "We hope some day you'll join us"
- Part V: Movement songwriter. Life on Bank Street
- "It ain't fair, John Sinclair"
- The Apollo Theatre and the Mike Douglas Show
- Front-page songs
- Part VI: Deportation and the ex-radical. Deportation : "a strategic counter-measure"
- From Madison Square Garden to election night
- "Lennon forgets"
- "No more '74"
- Part VII: Feminist father. Watching the wheels
- Starting over
- Epilogue: The struggle of Mark David Chapman
- Interview with Yoko Ono.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1984.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-373) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0252061314
- 9780252061318
- OCLC:
- 21907530
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