John Lennon: Albert Goldman v Hunter Davies. (1 of 2)

Classic encounter between Lennon's hatchet-job biographer and the Beatles' first biographer. British TV, 1989.

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• John
• Lennon
• The
• Beatles
• Albert
• Goldman
• Hunter
• Davies
• Cynthia
• Rose
• Yoko
• Ono
• George
• Harrison
• Ringo
• Starr

[2000everett4]

Goldman seems like a pompous ass. Simply full of himself.

[wworldwide]

what fag... he sounds like he just wanted to get famous

[August8th1969]

As one Beatle author noted, no author can write the definite history on the Beatles. Not only have the Beatles contradicted each other over the years, but they have contradicted themselves over the years. For a good look at John's maternal side of the family, I found one of Julia Baird's books very interesting (though I think it can be argued that while she criticizes some of her maternal aunts, she might have given her mother a free pass.

[August8th1969]

Off topic: I can't pick up a Beatle book these days without finding some very basic error within a very short time. Even in the Hunter Davies book something was written about the Beatles first concert at the Washington Coliseum as having been attended by 20,000 fans (when most sources list it anywhere between six to eight thousand [though they certainly could have sold out an arena that large]). I've read that the Beatles didn't let Davies include the stuff about the Lennon-Epsten holiday.

[Korn1holio]

I've read Goldman's book. There's nothing there that made me change my view on John. Moreover I've always thought that people are nasty creatures and any "goody-two-shoes" biographies are, in fact, lacquered lies.

[ktrout17I]

So, you're not a Boy George fan? Pull the other leg, it has bells on. I'm sure though if John Lennon was alive today that he would be devastated about your scathing critique of his music "post 74", and probably cry himself to sleep every night. I'll bet you are so "bad ass" that you take the lids off soda bottles in the supermarket too, because you just don't care.

[PAULLONDEN]

@ktrout17I The fact that you mention that twat in the same breath as Lennon,is proof enough.

[ktrout17I]

@PAULLONDEN I'm sure it was a relief to all Boy George fans the world over.

[Zebonka]

Goldman was Captain of the USS Make Shit Up.

[PAULLONDEN]

@2000everett4 Might be, but he was the first ,not to treat Lennon as the second coming, but as a highly confused artist,warts and all. Just take a look at some of the later Lennon footage,and his boring post '74 music,and it was high time for a critical assessment.Compared to asslickers like Cavett & Frost,this was a relief.

[procommenter]

“The subconscious has another singularly elusive but elusive but vitally significant function that you must comprehend—

[Fr. p. 99 of Joseph Whitfield's The Treasure of El Dorado, 1981]

[photoamnesia]

Notive how he is no able to look directly at the camera? These are the eyes of a lier, someone able to feed himself from a corpse.