Nowhere Boy gets nowhere near unravelling the Lennon conundrum | David Cox

Sam Taylor-Wood's portrait of a troubled teenager's life tells us little about the roots of his geniusNowadays, most of us enjoy what academics like to call "parasocial" lives, in which we feast on the doings of our celebrity heroes even more voraciously than we attend to the ups and downs, triumphs and embarrassments of our actual families and friends. Hence, perhaps, the current appetite for biography of all kinds.The slender narratives of Wags and sportspersons elbow Booker shortlisters out o...

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