My favourite song was and still is Imagine, the words are so beautiful and meaningful. I can vaguely remember seeing both John and Yoko in a huge bed in a hotel on the local news but it's a very long time ago. However the letters revealed just what I thought and also much about his life,thoughts and feelings. I always thought that John Lennon was a truly nice guy and I made this assumption just by listening to his music which told me so much. When I started listening to this audiobook I didn't think I would learn much through listening to his letters but I was so wrong. Throughout the years I have listened to the music of the Beatles and then to John Lennon also Paul McCartney with wings.

However the letters revealed I have just finished a truly exceptional audiobook which I feel privileged to have read.

I have just finished a truly exceptional audiobook which I feel privileged to have read. With unparalleled knowledge of Lennon and his contemporaries, Davies reads between the lines of the artist's words, contextualizing them in Lennon's life and using them to reveal the man himself.more This groundbreaking collection of almost 300 letters and postcards has been edited and annotated by Hunter Davies, whose authorized biography The Beatles (1968) was published to great acclaim. Funny, informative, wise, poetic, and sometimes heartbreaking, his letters illuminate a never-before-seen intimate side of the private genius. Now, gathered for the first time in book form, are his letters to family, friends, strangers, and lovers from every point in his life. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow unguarded. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of 'Help!', 'Come Together', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Strawberry Fields Forever', 'Imagine', and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter.

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