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The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almerâia, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in response to that song, Paul McCartney wrote "Penny Lane" at his home in London. A culmination of what was one of the most life-altering and chaotic years in the Beatles' career, these two songs composed the 1967 double A-side 45 rpm...

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Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at the icons.

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings  “All I really need to do is simply ask a question, ” Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. “And then listen.” It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights—and depths—as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called “an incomparable interviewer, ” one whose skill, according to the great intervi...

Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition  Pipers at the Gates of Dawn is a unique ensemble bringing together Jonathan Cott’s encounters and conversations with some of the most celebrated children’s authors of the twentieth century. “Children’s literature, ” he states, “brings us back to experiencing our earliest and deepest feelings and truths. It is our link to the past and a pa...

Il libro è la biografia dell'inglese Dorothy Eady, ossessionata sin dall'infanzia dalla sua attrazione per l'Egitto, che la spinse a lasciare l'Inghilterra per recarsi a vivere ai piedi delle Piramidi e più tardi nel villaggio di Abydos, sede del tempio del suo amato faraone Seti I. La Eady, poi nota come Omm Seti, ripercorre la sua vita di egittologa, le cui conoscenze di antichi rituali e dei luoghi di templi restano inspiegabili per molti, ...

A historical compilation to savor" (Los Angeles Times) that is "invaluable…irresistible" (The New York Times)—the ultimate collection of interviews and encounters with Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan, spanning his entire career from 1962 to today.Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street poet t...

Riflettere è stata l'attività principale nella vita di Susan Sontag. E scrivere. Riflettere e scrivere sulla malattia e sulla marginalità dei malati, dei pazzi, degli artisti, sulla rottura delle categorie stereotipiche di maschio e femmina o giovane e vecchio, sul rapporto tra amore, eros e amicizia, sulla necessità dell'impegno contro le guerre e della critica alla società occidentale, sul bisogno di reagire all'anti-intellettualismo. Nella ...

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One month following the death of Leonard Bernstein in October 1990, Rolling Stone magazine published the final extended interview with this most famous of American musicians. In Dinner with Lenny, Cott presents a book-length exposition of this last and legendary interview, bolstered by his full access to materials in the Bernstein estate. Fascinating and well-told, Dinner with Lenny is an exciting read for musicians and music lovers alike.

The entire transcript of Sontag's long conversations with Jonathan Cott, which only appeared in a much reduced form as an interview in "Rolling Stone" in 1979. New in paperback.

Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at the icons.

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An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strang...

One of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82) slouched at the piano from a sawed-down wooden stool, interpreting Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart at hastened tempos with pristine clarity. A strange genius and true eccentric, Gould was renowned not only for his musical gifts but also for his erratic behavior: he often hummed aloud during concerts and appeared in unpressed tails, finge...

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