菲利普·诺曼（1943—），小说家、传记作家、记者及剧作家，自上世纪60年代起供职于《星期日泰晤士报》，调查并报道了“披头士”乐队解散的原因，著有《呐喊！披头士的时代》（Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation）、《约翰·列侬传》等，他还为滚石乐队、艾尔顿?约翰等人写过传记。

约翰·列侬（John Lennon, 1940.10.9—1980.12.8），英国摇滚歌手，作曲家，和平主义者，披头士（甲壳虫，Beatles）乐队的灵魂人物。在二十世纪六七十年代风靡世界，至今仍拥有无数歌迷，深刻影响了现代流行文化的发展。其狂放不羁、特立独行的个性让他名满天下，亦谤满天下。1980年，列侬遇刺身亡。

英国作家菲利普·诺曼经过多年调查，做了大量采访，在本书中为我们生动展现了列侬从草根歌手到杰出音乐人的传奇一生。

Description: From the bestselling author of "Shout" comes an extraordinarily detailed, vibrant, in-depth account of the life of John Lennon--the most deeply researched and comprehensive biography to date. 16-page color photo insert; 16-page b&w photo insert.

Description: For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published.This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore-his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. The book's numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon-whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never before-and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John.Honest and unflinching, as John himself would wish, Norman gives us the whole man in all his endless contradictions-tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, vulnerable and insecure-and reveals how the mother who gave him away as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the rest of his days.