Misunderstanding all you hear | Page 6 | Fab forum

This may not be exactly on target with the forum but it's close enough. 

Plus, I relish any opportunity to trash the late and rarely lamented Titan of Trash himself, Albert Goldman.

Here's just a brief taste of "misunderstandings" in Lives of John Lennon:

AG states that All Things Must Pass was a 4-album set.

AG refers to drummer Andy Newmark as "Andy Newman."

AG refers to producer Bob Ezrin as "Bob Ezra."

AG plagiarizes from the Manila Times account of the Beatles' tumultuous departure from the Phillipines and presents it as a factual report on the event.

This is not the only plagiarism in the book, far from it.  AG lifted wholesale from various published sources.  He mentions some of the sources at the beginning and end of his book.  But mentioning is not equal to citation.  According to even the most loose standards, AG was a plagiarist. 

If you can't get the "small stuff" right I don't trust you with the "big stuff."

He calls the book a "definitive biography."  I call it a case study in how not to do research and in how to expose oneself as a sloppy, lazy hack who not only hated JL, but hated people in general.  Pick a page, any page in the book.  You'll find AG taking at least one cheap shot at someone, from the famous to the forgotten.