In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon | Book review

Nicholas Lezard on the best books written by a pop starWhat, I wonder, was the initial reaction of the countless thousands of young Beatlemaniacs when they read the literary fruits of their idol's mind? This is a long way from "I Want to Hold Your Hand": in "Nicely Nicely Clive", a bride wonders whether she should have flowers round the spokes of her wheelchair. ("Does it really matter?" says her mother. "He won't be looking at your spokes anyway".) Or there's Eric Hearble, who loses his job tea...

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