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Come Together
Jon Wiener
其他書名
John Lennon in His Time
出版
University of Illinois Press
, 1984
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Music
Music / General
Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
Music / Individual Composer & Musician
ISBN
0252061314
9780252061318
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Dj5uY-yAy4QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
An engaging look at one of music's most defiantly political figures,
Come Together
recreates two decades of rock and rebellion by tracing John Lennon's ever-evolving politics from the formation of the Beatles in 1960 to his assassination in 1980. From modest anti-establishment tweaking and a penchant for "more popular than Jesus" pot-stirring, Lennon grew into an influential voice of the peace movement opposed to the Vietnam War. His activism drew the ire of the FBI. In 1972, the Bureau tried to deport Lennon back to Britain--a fabled and failed effort to choke off Lennon's threat to merge his celebrity and music with radical politics. Wiener brilliantly recreates an amazing, impassioned time in American life that saw Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono holding bed-ins for peace, commenting on current events, and recording antiwar anthems like "Imagine." He also astutely observes Lennon's naivete and blind spots while offering details of his own ongoing effort to force the release of Lennon's FBI file by the US government.