John Lennon: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
There is no biography of John Lennon that finds an intelligent, informed middle ground between hagiography and hatchet job. The best of the former is Ray Coleman, Lennon: The Definitive Biography (1992). The most fully researched of the latter, Albert Goldman, The Lives of John Lennon (1988, reissued 2001), is so transparently spiteful as to be almost useless. Jann S. Wenner, Lennon Remembers, new ed. (2001), the Rolling Stone interviews; and David Sheff, The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, ed. by G. Barry Golson (1981, reissued as All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, 2000), are eloquent interviews. The Editors of Rolling Stone, The Ballad of John and Yoko, ed. by Jonathan Cott and Christine Doudna (1982); and Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman (eds.), The Lennon Companion: Twenty-five Years of Comment (1987, reissued 2004), are useful collections. The best academic studies are Anthony Elliott, The Mourning of John Lennon (1999), written from a postmodernist perspective; and Jon Wiener, Come Together: John Lennon in His Time (1984, reprinted 1991), a political take.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 04, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Links added. | Sep 26, 2024 | ||
| Replaced a photo and added a video. | Sep 09, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 29, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference added. | Jan 18, 2024 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Oct 29, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 25, 2016 | ||
| Added a photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono after their wedding. | Jun 15, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Oct 15, 2007 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Oct 15, 2007 |