Long description
John Lennon is one of the most enduring figures in musical and cultural history. On quarter of ‘The Fab Four’, peace activist, visual artist and author, he was a
man whose personal life was never short on drama, intrigue and, eventually, conspiracy. Thirty years after his death, Christopher Eccleston stars as the enigmatic
musician in a defining period of his life, as he moved from ‘Beatle John’ to an icon. It covers a period of wildly fluctuating fortunes from 1967 to 1971, a time of worldwide adulation at one extreme, a combination of frustration and despair at the other. From the death of father-figure and manager Brian Epstein, his break-up with first wife Cynthia, his fascinating love affair with Yoko Ono through to his spiralling drug use and decision to leave England for New York, this is the story of an artist destroying everything to find himself.