January 2011
5 posts
The John Lennon Play: In His Own Write
1950. Liverpool. It’s time for John Lennon to grow up.
With a family who do little more than drink tea, in an oppressively mundane world, Lennon’s imagination runs wild; over-powering his dismal post-war surroundings and shaping them to his own fantastical version of reality.He creates distortions of the everyday, encountering other-worldly creatures and places; Elepoon Pill in the...
In His Own Write is published
John Lennon’s first book, In His Own Write, was published on this day by Jonathan Cape.
About the Awful
I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who had only one). Anyway, they didn’t get me. I attended to varicous schools in Liddypol. And still didn’t pass-much to my Aunties supplies. As a memebr of...
John Lennon in his own write... En flagrant...
Non, John n’avait pas pompé Pierre Desproges. Ce premier livre du chanteur est daté de 1964. Avant les Beatles.
John en fait avait toujours sur lui de quoi griffonner, dessiner, gribouiller des dessins. Ecrire des textes. Partir dans ses délires. Véritable obsédé textuel. Je croyais avec le livre de Philippe Katerine “Doublez vos mémoires” que j’avais touché le fond des...
In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by...
I will go out on a limb here and say that this is the most impossible book to review. That might sound negative, but it is not meant in that manner. The thing is, both In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works (originally published in respectively 1964 and 1965) consist of a collection of short sketches, stories and random writings of John Lennon. Lennon uses a lot of word associations and...
In His Own Write (En Flagrant Délire), 1964
“En tant que membre des très publicissimes Beatles, mes disques peuvent à certains d’entre vous sembler plus drôles que ce livre, mais en ce qui me consterne ce chapelet de courts récifs est la partie de rire la plus délictieuse que j’aie jamais tordue.” En Flagrant Délire, John Lennon
Véritable succès lors de sa publication le 27 avril 1964 - numéro un des best-sellers...
