I am/was the Walrus

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Authors

Daniel Beller-McKenna, University of New HampshireFollow

Abstract

For most of his adult life, John Lennon fought to define himself against his public identity as "Beatle-:John." That image, crafted by the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and the pop music industry became a burden to all four of the Beatles during the group's seven years of international star-dom. In place of the rough leather-clad rock and roll band that played rambling one hour sets in the Hamburg Kaiserkeller and the Liverpool Cavern Club during 1960-61, Epstein forged a more commercially viable group of four well (and uniformly) dressed young men whose stage act was reduced to twenty minute carefully scripted sets.

Department

Music

Publication Date

9-29-2002

Journal Title

Current Musicology

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i74.4904

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

Beller-McKenna, D. “I am/was the Walrus.” Current Musicology 74 (2002): 47-68.

Comments

This is an open access article published by Columbia University Press in Current Musicology in 2002, available online: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/cm.v0i74.4904