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THE WALRUS AND THE ELEPHANTS
John Lennon's Years of Revolution
Everyone thought they knew John Lennon, the self-assured 'smart Beatle' whose very publicly-led life marked a generation's milestone. The Beatles and their impact on the 1960s have been exhaustively chronicled, yet Lennon's 'other band' - and the rowdy ride they shared to start a new decade - remains relatively unknown.
In late 1971 Lennon left London behind in search of New York residency, ready to write a new chapter in his life. What he no longer had was a band. After a dubious introduction courtesy of radical leader Jerry Rubin, Lennon made the offer of a lifetime to Elephant's Memory, a Greenwich Village group known as much for politics as music. The band backed Lennon for a year's worth of recordings, TV appearances, and a Madison Square Garden concert - which turned out to be Lennon's final full-length show. Plucked from relative obscurity, the Elephants joined Lennon on a frantic tour of political activism, free speech challenges, and the evolution of rock music's place in popular culture. THE WALRUS AND THE ELEPHANTS provides an in-depth look at Lennon as seen by the unlikely cast that followed the Beatles. Onstage and off, Elephant's Memory and their friends joined Lennon for a remarkable year of rock and revolution.
James A. Mitchell spent a decade in New York working for Firehouse and Video Business magazines. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, The Humanist and Starlog, and has produced video features for CNN iReports. He is the author of It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder's Life in Music and But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War.
DAS WALROSS UND DIE ELEFANTEN
John Lenons revolutionaere Jahre
Deutsch von Ronald Gutberlet
[HC Nautilus 02/15]
In late 1971 Lennon left London behind in search of New York residency, ready to write a new chapter in his life. What he no longer had was a band. After a dubious introduction courtesy of radical leader Jerry Rubin, Lennon made the offer of a lifetime to Elephant's Memory, a Greenwich Village group known as much for politics as music. The band backed Lennon for a year's worth of recordings, TV appearances, and a Madison Square Garden concert - which turned out to be Lennon's final full-length show. Plucked from relative obscurity, the Elephants joined Lennon on a frantic tour of political activism, free speech challenges, and the evolution of rock music's place in popular culture. THE WALRUS AND THE ELEPHANTS provides an in-depth look at Lennon as seen by the unlikely cast that followed the Beatles. Onstage and off, Elephant's Memory and their friends joined Lennon for a remarkable year of rock and revolution.
James A. Mitchell spent a decade in New York working for Firehouse and Video Business magazines. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, The Humanist and Starlog, and has produced video features for CNN iReports. He is the author of It Was All Right: Mitch Ryder's Life in Music and But for the Grace: Profiles in Peace from a Nation at War.
DAS WALROSS UND DIE ELEFANTEN
John Lenons revolutionaere Jahre
Deutsch von Ronald Gutberlet
[HC Nautilus 02/15]
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Published 2013-12-01 by Seven Stories Press |