December 2010
8 posts
Response to “Stop Imagining”
Those of us who followed Lennon at the time, who devoured “In His Own Write” at its release and listened to the songs looking for meanings and finding them from “Revolver” forward, those of us who understood the interviews from the first days of “more popular than Jesus” see very clearly that John was ALWAYS changing, always seeking and frequently finding an external source of “enlightenment.”...
John Lennon: Proto-Punk Progressive
The fall is the time for reissues, as record companies endeavor to notch up big sales during the holiday season. And how do you market physical CDs in a download-happy world? It’s easy if you’re dealing with old schoolers like myself who appreciate the concept of “hard copy” (I know too many folks who lost their entire music collections because their hard drive crashed)....
James Thurber and John Lennon: Drawing the...
When James Thurber died on November 2, 1961, John Lennon was playing nonstop gigs in dives in Hamburg with the Beatles, who had yet to release their first recording. They clearly had no opportunity to meet. But because December 8 marks the date in 1980 of John Lennon’s murder and of James Thurber’s birth in 1894, the two lives are annually memorialized together by circumstance. Their actual...
Lighter side of Lennon
“In His Own Write” (1964) - “The Writing Beatle!” a cover blurb proclaimed - and “A Spaniard in the Works” (1965) have been re-issued in one volume as part of a deluge of Lennon material (books, CDs, DVDs, documentary films) released in commemoration of what would have been his 70th birthday (Oct. 9).
As much as melodies and chords - and eventually electronic...
Torrent Description
In His Own Write is a book from 1964 by John Lennon. The book consists of short stories and line drawings, often surreal and always nonsensical. It is notable in that it was the first solo Beatle project in any form. It was followed in 1965 by A Spaniard in the Works. Lennon was adept at free association and improvisation in his linguistic explorations, which can be seen in both his prose writing...
In His Own Write - John Lennon
In His Own Write was John Lennon’s first book (the second being A Spaniard in the Works), published in 1964. It was out of print for a while, but has now been released once more, and now it has a special introduction by Yoko Ono*. The book is a collection of short stories, poems, and drawings that Lennon had done throughout his life. Most of them were made while he was at school.
The most...
John — at 70 — is Still My Favorite Beatle
Before long, I discovered John had written a book, and I had to have it for my collection of all things Beatle with a concentration in things John. I probably washed a ton of dishes to save up and buy “In His Own Write.” But having the book in hand, I realized it was easier to buy it than it was to understand it. In short, literature it was not, and as a collection of allegedly humorous...
