We All Shine On
John, Yoko, and Me
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A personal and revealing look at the last ten years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best
In 1972, Elliot Mintz installed a red light in his bedroom in Laurel Canyon. When it started flashing, it meant that either John Lennon or Yoko Ono—or sometimes both—were calling him. Which they did almost every day for nearly ten years, engaging Mintz in hours-long late-night phone conversations that all but consumed him for the better part of a decade.
In We All Shine On, Mintz—a former radio and television host in Los Angeles—recounts the story of how their unlikely friendship began and where it led him over the years, revealing the ups and downs of a wild, touching, heartbreaking, and sometimes shocking relationship. Mintz takes readers inside John and Yoko’s inner sanctums, including their expansive seventh-floor apartment in New York’s fabled Dakota building, where Mintz was something of a semipermanent fixture, ultimately becoming the Lennons' closest and most trusted confidant. Mintz was with John and Yoko through creative highs, relationship and private challenges, fascinating interactions with the other former Beatles, and the happiest moment of their lives together, the birth of their son, Sean. He was also by Yoko’s side during the aftermath of John’s assassination on the doorstep of the Dakota—not merely a witness to it all, but a key figure in the drama of John and Yoko’s extraordinary lives.
We All Shine On is a must-read for Beatles and Lennon fans, offering an up close and intimate view of one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, as well as one of the most fascinating marriages. But it’s also a relationship story that just about everyone can relate to, a tale about partnership, loyalty, and trust, and most of all, the lasting legacy of a true and deep friendship.
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Radio personality Mintz debuts with a vivid account of the decade he spent as John Lennon and Yoko Ono's confidante, fixer, and friend. "Ellie," as the couple called him, first interviewed Yoko on his radio show in 1971 and gained her trust, he muses, because he didn't ask about her famous relationship. With startling speed—Yoko called him for an impromptu, 40-minute chat the next day—Mintz became the couple's "secret friend," playing "many parts in the sometimes puzzling, occasionally maddening, always complex dramas they scripted for the three of us." The roles Mintz played included therapist, unofficial media rep, and de facto babysitter for John during his infamous "Lost Weekend." In the process, Mintz got an up-close look at John and Yoko's combustible mix of fame, talent, and fragility (he writes that the "mere mention of Bob Dylan's name... could uncork a volcano of roiling resentments" in John, who could be "bitter and mean-spirited" when drunk). Only much later did Mintz question why he'd dedicated so much of his life to the pair. Though he closes the account on a melancholy note ("If only I'd had the strength to resist the undefinable magnetic pull both of them had on me"), he admits it was a "conversation that I too wanted to go on forever." It's a captivating and intimate window into the complicated lives of one of rock's most legendary couples.
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The Real Thing
John and Yoko were friends of mine and I lived and worked with them for three. Read this book if you really want to know them. Elliot has done an amazing job.
We All Shine On
Very well written and enjoyable read taking us behind the scenes of John/Yoko and Elliot through the 9 years he was practically family with the Lennons.
The book filled in plenty of years that haven't gotten as much attention and was done in a respectful way.
It’s thankfully not a tell all book so don’t expect the Lost Weekend year to shed some dark stories that have probably been written about already.
There are a few segments that might make Lennon fans a bit uneasy but I appreciated the honesty by Mr. Mintz.
Recommended.