Come Together: John Lennon in His TimeAn 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. |
Contents
The Dream Is Over | 3 |
The 1966 Tour | 11 |
Private Gripweed and Yoko Ono | 25 |
Sgt Pepper and Flower Power | 33 |
From Brian Epstein to the Maharishi | 45 |
Rock against Revolution | 58 |
Two Virgins | 73 |
AvantGarde Peacenik | 88 |
Hanratty and Michael X | 110 |
Life on Bank Street | 173 |
It Aint Fair John Sinclair | 187 |
A Strategic CounterMeasure | 225 |
From Madison Square Garden to Election Night | 241 |
Watching the Wheels | 283 |
Starting Over | 297 |
The Struggle of Mark David Chapman | 307 |
The Renunciation of What the Beatles Had Stood For | 100 |
An Interview with Yoko Ono | 313 |
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