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John Lennon wrote Skywriting by Word of Mouth, an impressive collection of writings and drawings, during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with Sean, and always planned to have it published. The book's publication was a wish that seemed to end with Lennon's assassination in 1980 and the theft of the manuscript from the Lennons' home in 1982. When it was recovered and first published in 1986, Skywriting received immediate critical and popular acclaim. Filled with Lennon's extraordinary creative powers and lavishly illustrated with his own drawings, the collection reveals his fertile creative spirit up close and in full force. Included in Skywriting are "Two Virgins," written when the public learned that John and Yoko were living together as husband and wife, and John's only autobiography, "The Ballad of John and Yoko." In addition there are notes on his falling in love with Yoko, the breakup of the Beatles, his persecution by U.S. authorities, and his withdrawal from public life. This is a book with John Lennon's spirit on every page—a spirit the world needs to remember.
The national bestseller published posthumously in 1986.
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Mary Sherwood
reviewed Skywriting by Word of Mouth: And Other Writings, Including the Ballad of John & Yoko on June 15, 2017
Skywriting by Word of Mouth: And Other Writings, Including the Ballad of John & Yoko
I am a big Lennon fan. I am also a big fan of him and Yoko Ono, and I didn't, not once in my life, blamed Yoko Ono for breaking up the greatest band ever. This book was special to me because it was written by one of my idols, but that was never enough to give me a million stars for his book. The autobiographical piece, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" was phenomenal. It contained so many things a lot of people didn't know about him and his wife, and it gave me a piece of him as a person and not as the man many people worship. If only the whole book was about his life and his thoughts, this would havr been an awesome, awesome book. However, this contained many short stories and essays that were too deep and too weird for my tiny brain to understand. Some were amusing, but for the most part, reading the stories felt like watching "The Yellow Submarine" all over again - there was a story, but it was like being on a raft letting the current take you where it wants to take you.
Maybe reading the stories one after another was too much for me to digest. If I read one story a day, I might be able to fully understand it. Good thing I own the book. It will allow me to re read some pieces and maybe next time the rating will go up a star higher. For now, I will give it a safe 3 stars... but do know that the first article and his drawings were 5 stars for me.
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