Can drugs–licit and illicit–be used rather than abused? Sure, and people do it all the time. For me, the term “drug abuse” has nothing to do with the government’s hypocritical stances on a drug, and everything to do with the effects the substance has on a person’s life. He says the scene “hints how they may have graduated from sniffing to syringes.” There doesn’t seem to be any illusion about the extent to which they took their abuses.įull disclosure: Tim gives my Beatles book a nice little plug in the Acknowledgments.Īnon, you and I will have to agree to disagree on the nature of drugs in John Lennon’s life. Re: drugs, Tim relates the Peter Sellers drop-in shown in the “Let it Be” outtakes, with John joking about needles on the bathroom floor. But as an overall comprehension, a fleshed-out picture, the book is coming together and the portrait is taking on color. Tim’s big drawback is the often pedestrian quality of his writing. I’m digging it so far and can’t wait to see how he handles the High Acid days of “Revolver,” the Christ business, etc. He’s good on Epstein and Martin and especially on John’s divided soul, torn between Mummy and Daddy–that seems to be the characterological theme. What with other commitments I’m only up to about “Love Me Do” days but it’s rolling right along. I’ve been reading a review copy of Tim’s book for several weeks. Because we certainly haven’t gotten one now. Maybe we’ll have to wait until he’s passed. But it would be nice to have a fair, decent bio of Paul by a respected author. I KNOW the man had faults and career mis-steps. I wish someone like Peter Guralnick, who wrote the terrific Elvis bio, would take on McCartney. Sounes is not a music writer and didn’t understand Paul’s music at all, and was more interested in rehashing the divorce than focusing on Chaos and Creation or Electric Arguments, Paul’s two best albums since 2005. Sounes book reads like he would rather have written about Lennon but it had already been done. Worse yet, Paul got the hatchet job by Howard Sounes, a guy who clearly (from his own book) doesn’t even like Paul or his music that much. But when is Paul going to get a decent biography by a respected writer? All Paul got was the Peter Carlin book which felt rushed, short, and superficial and rehashed too much Beatles history already covered elsewhere.
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