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It is reported that controversial biographer Albert Goldman is working on a book about John Lennon.Full article:
Albert Goldman (biographer) : My interest in Lennon was entirely a product of my admiration for him. And my admiration for him wasn’t confined to his work. It was also his character. He had the bravery to come out and say those things that run against the current of his profession, which is always to talk a lot of bullshit and butter people up and smile and fawn and so forth. He didn't do that. He stood up like a man and said, ‘This is bullshit!’ It's admirable. It's so refreshing. That was one of the things I most admired about John. That he was that rare, one in a million pop star, who doesn't give a damn. He just comes up and tells the truth.
And if they don’t like it, too bad. And it’s that feeling that he was such a great believer in candour, about his own life, that was really my mandate, it seemed to me, as a biographer. When you tell the truth about John Lennon, you don't betray John Lennon. Quite the contrary. You fulfil the mandate that John Lennon has himself given you by the precedent of telling all these things about himself for all these years in all these interviews.
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And if they don’t like it, too bad. And it’s that feeling that he was such a great believer in candour, about his own life, that was really my mandate, it seemed to me, as a biographer. When you tell the truth about John Lennon, you don't betray John Lennon. Quite the contrary. You fulfil the mandate that John Lennon has himself given you by the precedent of telling all these things about himself for all these years in all these interviews.