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Bendito Lennon

Bendito Lennon, or Blessed Lennon, by Octavio Cavalli, is a 728-page John Lennon biography that you'll soon be hearing about if you live in Latin America. I've been grappling with the book for the past week, with a lot of help from Google translate, and it appears to be the definitive Spanish-language take on the ex-Beatle.

Cavalli, a Buenos Aires attorney, has obsessively researched every aspect of Lennon's life and death, and is currently revising the book for a new edition that Prosa Amerian Editores will publish in 2014.

I’ve been conducting an in-depth dialogue with Cavalli about my own Lennon bio, Nowhere Man, and John Lennon’s personal diaries, which I transcribed and edited in 1981. My knowledge of the diaries is among the new information that Cavalli will include in the revised edition of Bendito Lennon.

Since Nowhere Man: Los Últimos Días De John Lennon was published in Mexico, in 2003, Latin America has embraced the book in a way that I consider miraculous. Ten years later, in Bendito Lennon, the miracle continues in Argentina.

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10 Biografías Imprescindibles

As the year winds down and we move into the holiday season, I'm happy to report that the Spanish newspaper iLeón has chosen Nowhere Man: Los Ultimos Dias De John Lennon as one of the 10 essential music biographies of all time.

The writer, Julio Hurtado, calls Nowhere Man “one of the most sincere and brutal biographies” ever written.

Muchas gracias, España, y toda la gente que han leído mi libro.

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