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The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir
Frederic Seaman was John Lennon's personal assistant, driver and companion from 1979 until his death. Here is his revealing memoir of Lennon, including Lennon's virtual imprisonment in his apartment house, his obsession with food and sex, the Lennons's colossal shopping sprees, John and Yoko's fascination with the Occult, John's premonition of his violent death, and more....more
Hardcover, 262 pages
Published
September 28th 1991
by Carol Publishing Corporation
(first published September 1991)
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This book covers John Lennon's last year and a half or so, written by his personal assistant. I thought it was a pretty clear-eyed picture of Lennon, and gelled with other things I've read about him. The weirdness of Lennon's world, his relationship with Yoko and his sons, are all covered in depth here. The pictures are great, and John really looked on top of his game during his time in Bermuda. It was interesting to learn that John was prompted back into the studio by the success of 'McCartney...more
I found this gritty memoir of the short time that Frederick Seaman acted as John Lennon's personal assistant before John's death to be compelling and eye-opening, and very, very sad to one who grew up with the Beatles and admired Lennon greatly. To me John will always be the heart of the band and this book does not change that, but I certainly found his Elvis-esque idiosyncrasies toward the end and his blind devotion to the Svengali-like Ono, as revealed by Seaman, to be distressing. But offsett...more
You have to take with a grain of salt a book written by someone who stole personal diaries and papers of the man he worked for and then writes about. But it was interesting nonetheless.
Interesting read. If you ever wondered what life was like for John Lennon at the Dakota, near the end of his life, this is it.
one of my very favorite lennon books, this is one of the few that actually has some kind of an aura of reality to it - john lennon comes across as an actual human being, instead of the sugary st lennon of yoko mythology OR albert goldman's detestable junkie skag. cases of thai stick? trunks full of playboys? compulsive journalling? chain smoking and non-stop TV? bizarre grudges held for having "hotel karma" fucked with? yeah. sounds about right to me.
I'm pretty sure that in Britain this is 'Living on Borrowed Time' - Johns & Yoko's p.a. dishing the dirt on the last two years of John's life as a grumpy, chain smoking, out of it house husband and, latterly, musician. Have to take with a grain of salt as he stole Lennon's diaries claiming that John wanted him to and was involved in litigation with Yoko. Still interesting though..
Nov 30, 2007
Amy
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Recommends it for:
fellow beatlemaniacs
Shelves:
beatles
i read this when i went thru my hardcore initial obsession with the beatles, and i remember really loving this book. it's basically and account written in a sort of diary format of the last year of john's life, as told by his personal assistant at that time. good, sad read.
this book is a very comprehensive, first hand account of john lennon in the late 1970's and the tumultuous relationships he had with friends and family. it pulls him down off the pedestal a bit, which is necessary. loved it.
Jul 25, 2008
Casey Irwin
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I've read lots of books about Lennon, but this is a favorite.
From the point of view of the Lennon family, I can totally understand why they would hate this book because it's such a horrific invasion of their privacy. I guess John and Yoko didn't think it was necessary to have Fred Seaman sign a confidentiality agreement, though I don't think they were common then as they are now. Or maybe he did and broke the agreement?
But from a voyeuristic, fan's point of view - WOW! Lots of juicy gossip and insight from the former personal assistant of John Lennon. It...more
But from a voyeuristic, fan's point of view - WOW! Lots of juicy gossip and insight from the former personal assistant of John Lennon. It...more
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