![]() ![]() Most of us on this site don’t think about these things, but understanding the isolated, paranoid Lennon of the late Seventies probably depends on putting ourselves in the shoes of someone who did.Įxhaustion. ![]() He is very interested in what it’s like to be shot and thinks a fair amount about assassination, which he believes is modern crucifixion. He also believes that he is living on borrowed time and that he is headed for a violent end because he was a violent man. He believes that because Yoko was able to accomplish this feat, she has magical powers of some sort. He is certain that Sean will inherit his soul when he, John, dies, because they were born on the same day. John appears to believe earnestly in what seem to be some pretty odd things. That the Dakota years were less rosy than the Ballad claims is not really up for debate anymore amongst anyone even semi-serious about the Beatles as people, not legends, but it’s still stunning to see what that looks like up close. If there’s a spectrum of Dakota-era John Lennons stretching from Goldman’s smack-addled burnout on the far left to the drug-free, happy, bread-baking househusband on the right, Seaman’s is somewhere believably to the right of Goldman’s: functional enough to put on some clothes, walk down the block, and turn on the Lennon charm when he’s in the mood to do so, but stifled and depressed enough to retreat to his room for hours or days on end, where he does drugs, looks at Playboys or the TV, doesn’t write music, listens to Muzak versions of his own songs, and reads about psychology or the occult. Seaman, John’s personal assistant for the last two or so years, depicts a rock star in his late thirties who may as well be in his late eighties for the way in which his happiness seems to be confined to rare moments when he reminisces about something he did in his early twenties. ![]() It’s a very quick read, but not a particularly pleasant one. Belatedly for someone as into the Beatles as I, I’ve been reading Fred Seaman’s The Last Days of John Lennon. ![]()
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