April 2003
| £9.99 | $13.95 | paperback original | 1 86074 451 6

"Just what the world needs, eh? Another book about John Lennon."

So starts Alan Clayson's latest biography on a member of the formidable Beatles. But the question we should ask is, why bother to write another biography on the man about whom there are already books cramming the shelves of bookshops and libraries and exhaustive web pages on the internet? The answer is, because this is the most detailed one there is. Bang up to date and featuring new interviews with his ex-wife Cynthia, John Lennon uncovers the truth behind the myth of this most controversial, antagonistic yet publicly adored man and grapples with the most important question: was he a genius?

This is Alan Clayson's third instalment of his Beatles biographies, with Ringo Starr, George Harrison ("A pleasure for Beatles fans" - The Daily Mail) in the can and with Paul McCartney due in July 2003. Alan has previously written biographies on Edgard Varese, Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Brel.  

For more information, please contact 
Diana Bell on +44(0)207 3001893
or to email:  CLICK
 

“A very thorough researcher”  -Uncut

 When the most successful pop group in the world, The Beatles, disbanded in 1970, its four members went off to spearhead radically different projects, and none was more successful than Paul McCartney. Free at last to take control of his own songwriting destiny, his new group, Wings, produced a steady stream of quality music, most notably the Band On The Run album and the million-selling single ‘Mull Of Kintyre’.

 Since those early days of freedom, Paul has established himself as one of the most creative artists of his generation and a British showbusiness treasure. With wide-ranging projects such as the soundtrack to the movie Give My Regards To Broad Street and the more recent and critically acclaimed Liverpool Oratorio, he has also proved that his talents have transcended the writing of what ex-bandmate John Lennon once called ‘granny music’. Celebrating his four decades of unparalleled success in the business, Paul McCartney is a multi-faceted account of one of the world’s most fascinating musicians.