In 1972 Sandra Shevey had an exclusive four-and-a-half-hour interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York. There she saw the other side of Lennon - a bitter, perverse character who scorned his earlier achievements by describing the Beatles as "one fuck forever". In this biography Shevey has investigated every part of his life from the very beginning, and analyses the great mysteries, from his marriage to Cynthia, to Epstein, Apple and the last eight years in America. She aims to reveal Lennon's extreme nature.