The only authorized biography of the Beatles revealed that John Lennon said that the band had been successful, as they were lucky, not talented, but then changed his mind.
John Lennon said he believed the Huge success of the Beatles He was not due to his talent, but he was a matter of belief and luck.
It iconic musicianwho was assassinated in New York in 1980, is widely considered a musical genius, and the Beatles legacy is still very alive even though the The band separated 55 years ago. Over the years, several books have been written about the band, but the biography of the British author and journalist Hunter Davies is the only authorized by the group.
The Beatles: Authorized Biography He wrote with the full cooperation of The Fab Four after the writer spent 18 months with the group and covers his career until the beginning of 1968. In the book, Mr. Davies, 89, shared a vision of the band’s success and the thought process behind him, and revealed that John had suggested that they were not particularly talented, as he believed they had been lucky.
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According to the author, John said: “We are not better than anyone. We are all the same. We are as good as Beethoven. Everyone is the same inside. You need the right desire and circumstances, but it has nothing to do with talent, training or training.”
He continued, “What is talent? I don’t know. You are born with him, do you discover that you have it later? The basic talent is to believe that you can do something.”
Davies wrote in the biography that John drew an analogy with painters and writers who in the past had no education or education, but they believed they could do something, and they did.
He argued that the Beatles guitarist George Harrison refused to draw for a long time, as he thought he couldn’t do it, but after he and Paul McCartney encouraged him, he began to do him all the time and improved it.
“Until the age of 15 it was no different from any other small C-of 15,” said John. “Then I decided I would write a small song and I did it.”
“But it did not make me different. This is a shit that I discovered that I had a latent. I just did.
On another occasion, John said that as he appreciated those who enjoyed his music, “he only did a little work, that was everything”, so people should not look too much. But in an interview he gave after the publication of the biography, John appeared to the idea that he had no talent.
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Speaking to Maurice Hindle and Daniel Wiles for University Keele Magazine Unity In December 1968, he explained that he had changed his mind. “I used to think that anyone can write songs and be a pop star; I think we even said to” The Beatle Book “last year of Hunter Davies, I have changed so much since then because I don’t think so now,” he said.
“I did it because it is me and I have what music does and does these songs. I think everyone has something. They just have to do it.
Speaking of his work and the reference that was a cone, the musician said: “I say it is a work in the reference terms I use, as I say that Picasso connected them and, therefore, Beethoven made the sleeves laugh; because they were. Anyone who is as fantastic as he knows, knows where and know that all this is the treatment and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the things that are the things that are written about our songs and the things that are written about our songs and the stones. Dylan and all that.
“Dylan knows where it is about our songs and what people liked and this is the job” con “… I don’t think” with “a derogatory word,” he continued.
The biography was reviewed several times with more material, but the original book still serves as a unique vision of the iconic band.
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