The Beatles Bible - Topic: The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 fabfouremily on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p74931 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p74931 Finally finished it this morning! Feel a bit bad that it took me so long, usually I finish any music, and particularly Beatles, book in a few days, not 7 months.

]]> Wed, 22 May 2013 17:27:33 +0100 fabfouremily on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65643 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65643 Page 265 - letter number 183 (to Todd Rundgren). He says to him in the letter:

''I never hit a waitress in the Troubador. I did act like an ass, I was drunk. So shoot me.''

Ouch, I almost cried when I read that.

]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:12:20 +0000 unknown on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65547 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65547 The only thing that annoys me about the book is there are a couple times where there is a letter from John to Cynthia where there are pages of the letters that don't remain, and it says something like, perhaps Cynthia ripped them up and threw away those missing pages, for they were to hard to read. Yeah, even though the letters were written like fifty years ago, let's not assume the rest of the letter just got lost overtime, but instead let's assume Cynthia ripped them up.a-hard-days-night-paul-10

 

]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:33:41 +0000 DrBeatle on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65387 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65387 Very good of him. And his response was all class, unlike that a-hole Spitz when people (rightly) pointed out the TRUCKLOADS of obvious errors in his "biography."

]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:47:48 +0000 Mocker on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65374 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65374 haha, the exact response from Hunter is as follows:

Well  spotted- several people have given the same explanation- and I am sure you and they are right... ta   Hunter

 

(was with regards to Hunter thinking when John was talking about 'E's, he may have meant ecstasy but when you look his writing, it is clear that he is talking about the actual letter E! and how he writes them)

Was good of Hunter to respond.

 

]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2013 08:28:05 +0000 fabfouremily on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65329 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65329

Mocker said
I spotted an error in the book and decided to email the address that Hunter Davies put in there and was quite surprised when he actually mailed back.

What did he say? :)

 

]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:15:55 +0000 Mocker on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65328 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p65328 I spotted an error in the book and decided to email the address that Hunter Davies put in there and was quite surprised when he actually mailed back.

]]> Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:08:39 +0000 Velvet Hand on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p64705 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-3/#p64705 I'm sorry to say that some of the more glaring chronological/factual errors in the Lennon Letters actually hampered my enjoyment of the book somewhat - stuff like the caption for the photo on page 98 (surely that's not a picture of John by  the pool at Kenwood but rather one taken somewhere in LA in late 1973 or thereabouts?), dating John and Paul's first meeting to 1956 (p. 206) and the Toronto festival to 1971 (214), or claiming (also 214) that John and Yoko appeared at George's Bangladesh concert. I just find it really weird that these things didn't get ...]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:26:49 +0000 LongHairedLady on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64603 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64603

bikelock28 said

 I feel angry that John wouldn't empathise with Paul, but then again he must've felt pretty betrayed when Paul sued him, George and Ringo.

Its so sad that such a wonderful friendship ended so bitterly :(  

I'm sure it didn't feel too good to get sued, but Paul had to do it.  He couldn't sue Klein, so he had to sue the other three Beatles to dissolve the partnership.  Years later the other three ended up suing Klein too, because he's a goddam snake.  Paul just knew that before anyone else did I guess.  

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:13:41 +0000 vonbontee on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64591 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64591 (shrugs) Eh, I liked that Spitz book myself, thought it was well-written and novelistic and that the errors were relatively trivial ones.
But yeah, there were indeed quite a few of them; and yeah, he was quite a dick when called on them.

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:59:20 +0000 meanmistermustard on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64589 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64589 Since its a moment of book slating i'd like to name 'The Mammoth Book of the Beatles', read it in Waterstones over a period of around 3 weeks. Have regretted it ever since. A worthless piece of shit i found it to be the more i read, especially the album and track reviews, thats what really got to me. I kept reading it because the beatles book selection was incredibly poor and i had a load of time to waste. Stupid i admit.

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:47:22 +0000 DrBeatle on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64586 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64586 I bought that Bill Harry encyclopedia back in, geez, 1992 or so. It's been in a box in my basement the last several years, but I do remember it was filled with mistakes.  Maybe worth digging out again to revisit. You'd think he of all people would have a book with very few errors in it!

 

And I have to :lol: at that article about Spitzer's book. It really is a load of rubbish (the book, that is)

]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:33:44 +0000 meanmistermustard on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64585 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64585 I agree mja that its a really idiotic mistake by Hunter, if i had gotten that far it would probably have been thrown across the room in disgust.

A google search brings up this 2005 Beatles News article that talks about the errors in Spitz's bio.

One book i despise due to incredibly stupid mistakes is Bill Harry's Beatles Encyclopedia. How can you omit Penny Lane from the Blue Album tracklist?! He's updating and expanding it for a future release so hopefully someone will sit him down and say correct this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, ...]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:22:12 +0000 DrBeatle on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64582 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64582

parlance said

DrBeatle said
And Davies bio does have some errors (I still like the book), but he also had the manuscript heavily edited and redacted by the band before he was able to publish it...in one of his forewards to the updated editions, he mentions some juicier bits that got chopped...

Yes, I'm glad the library had the latest edition. I enjoyed the book overall.

Generally, I'm forgiving of errors in books and I'll still read them (though I appreciate fan efforts to point them out for my own information). The only one I'm avoiding right now is the ...]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:55:20 +0000 Joe on The John Lennon Letters http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64579 John Lennon http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/john-lennon/the-john-lennon-letters/page-2/#p64579 I didn't find the book all that interesting. The most juicy stuff had already been reprinted in the press, and there was quite a bit of familiar stuff if you've read the biogs (eg letters to Cynthia and Paul). A few early letters to fans were good to see, as John seemed like a lovely bloke in the early days, but the fame years are either well documented or the letters contained quite boring everyday details or business decisions. Still, worth it if you're a completist. And I'd definitely rather have a paper copy than an ebook - the reproduction ...]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:49:44 +0000