Days in the Life

Norman, whose Shout remains one of the best biographies of the Beatles, now offers this coffee-table book on the life of Lennon. The anecdotal text - in fact, more captions than text - doesn't offer much new information, but that hardly matters here: it's the pictures that are the star attraction. Combining brilliant images with uniquely authoritative commentary, we review the days in Lennon's extraordinary life, its wondrous highs and desperate lows, its triumphs, innovations, aberrations and gaffes. This is a revealing and highly personal memoir of John Lennon in all his contradictions and paradox.