I picked up Julia Baird's new book 'Imagine This' growing up with my brother. Looks a great book & i saw Julia at a convention a few years back when i was .. oh "14". So Young!!
I picked up Julia Baird's new book 'Imagine This' growing up with my brother. Looks a great book & i saw Julia at a convention a few years back when i was .. oh "14". So Young!!
You actually saw her, like, physically? I'll be very interested to know what you think bout the book. As i doubted whether i should get it or not
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She was a guest at a conveention over 10 years ago now in Derby, England (where i live) & she was giving a speech on John & asking questions from the people. I tried to speak to her but she was only there for a short while but it was amazing to actually see her!! I did however meet Alister Taylor at another convention & a great gentleman he was!
[...] I'll be very interested to know what you think bout the book. As i doubted whether i should get it or not
This is what I've read about it ...
"Includes up to 50 black and white photos. Until now, the true story of John Lennon’s childhood has never been told. John’s sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties—as well as the happier times—living inside John Lennon’s family brought. Julia reveals the various strong, self-willed and selfish women who surrounded John as he grew up. John was removed from his mother at the age of 5 to live with his Aunt Mimi, and here Julia shows for the first time the cruelty of this decision—to both mother and son, she sheds a new light on his upbringing with Mimi which is often at dramatic odds with the accepted tale. John’s frequent visits to his mother and sisters gave him the liveliness, freedom and love he sought and allowed him to develop his musical talents. The tragic death of their mother, knocked down outside Aunt Mimi’s house by a speeding car when John was 17, meant that life for him and his sisters would never be the same again."
She was a guest at a conveention over 10 years ago now in Derby, England (where i live) & she was giving a speech on John & asking questions from the people. I tried to speak to her but she was only there for a short while but it was amazing to actually see her!! I did however meet Alister Taylor at another convention & a great gentleman he was!
Damn... thats NOT fair!!!!
And Raxo, Thing is, she didnt actually live with her brother, or did she? And a lot of the stuff in the book is about her and Julie from what i saw
By the way, how do you quote two people in one reply?
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[...] By the way, how do you quote two people in one reply?
Before you press the "Post" button when you've already answered the first quoted text, don't post it but copy all the text and go back to the thread to quote the second reply and then past there the "previous" non-posted reply ... I'm not sure if it makes sense ...
"Includes up to 50 black and white photos. Until now, the true story of John Lennon’s childhood has never been told. John’s sister Julia has herself been on a personal journey that has made it possible only now to reveal the full extent of the pain and difficulties—as well as the happier times—living inside John Lennon’s family brought. Julia reveals the various strong, self-willed and selfish women who surrounded John as he grew up. John was removed from his mother at the age of 5 to live with his Aunt Mimi, and here Julia shows for the first time the cruelty of this decision—to both mother and son, she sheds a new light on his upbringing with Mimi which is often at dramatic odds with the accepted tale. John’s frequent visits to his mother and sisters gave him the liveliness, freedom and love he sought and allowed him to develop his musical talents. The tragic death of their mother, knocked down outside Aunt Mimi’s house by a speeding car when John was 17, meant that life for him and his sisters would never be the same again."
Before you press the "Post" button when you've already answered the first quoted text, don't post it but copy all the text and go back to the thread to quote the second reply and then past there the "previous" non-posted reply ... I'm not sure if it makes sense ...
Thanks again! Hey it worked!!!!!
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OK, more difficult this time ... a quoted text inside another quoted text: copy the quoted text that it's going to be "inside" the other and paste it in the place you want it but always between the two "quote"s ...
Example: [quote=] (quoted text here ... with its own "quote"s too!!!) [quote] ... and voila!
OK, more difficult this time ... a quoted text inside another quoted text: copy the quoted text that it's going to be "inside" the other and paste it in the place you want it but always between the two "quote"s ...
Example: [quote=] (quoted text here ... with its own "quote"s too!!!) [quote] ... and voila!
I guess this makes even less sense ...
But how do you quote something from already quoted text that comes from previously quoted text in another thread, maybe even on another forum, and not even this year but maybe last year or the year before and can I have it in green please?
But how do you quote something from already quoted text that comes from previously quoted text in another thread, maybe even on another forum, and not even this year but maybe last year or the year before and can I have it in green please?
Ha! I finally finished "A Twist of Lennon". All I can say really is that it's a very easy and light book to read. It doesn't go into much detail which is where it differs from "John". The perfect book for me would be "John" with the ending of "A Twist of Lennon". By the way, it's interesting how Twist was Cynthia's second husband's name... if im not mistaken.
I'm taking a break with Beatles books and thought i'll read some classic literature.
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Thanks for your report, KE! It sounds like A Twist of Lennon is not a must-read, since I've already read John. I found _that_ pretty light going!
Cool note about Twist being an ex-husband. #3, actually: 1970 - Italian hotelier Roberto Bassanini, divorced in 1973.
1976 - John Twist, an engineer from Lancashire. They divorced in 1983 (after this book came out in 1978! Very interesting. So was it a deliberate or unconscious connection?)
2002 - Noel Charles, a night club owner.
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
I'm reading All You Need Is Ears right now and received The True Beginnings (by the family Best) recently. The latter looks pretty, with nice pictures. The George Martin book is a good read too.
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