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Born in Dormont, Pennsylvania, Albert Goldman wrote about the culture and personalities of the American music industry both in books and as a contributor to magazines. However, he is best known for his controversial biographies on Elvis Presley and John Lennon. Dormont is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Elvis redirects here. ... John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an iconic 20th century composer and singer of popular music with Paul McCartney as Lennon-McCartney throughout the 1960s, and was the founding member of The Beatles. ...

In his 1981 book titled Elvis, the author repeatedly belittled the late singer over his weight problems, his diet, his choice of performing costumes, and his sexual appetites and peculiarities. He even suggests that Elvis's promiscuity masked latent homosexuality. Goldman saw himself as a purist, and is quoted as saying: "Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell a song. His G clef was a dollar sign." Of the more than four hundred books on Presley, none ever upset his fans as much as Goldman did. Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post called it a "nasty book, written in spectacularly execrable prose, but the view of Presley that it expressed dovetailed in many instances with my own, and in spite of itself I found things in it to admire." In 1990, Goldman published a second book, entitled Elvis: The Last 24 Hours, on the circumstances and events of Presley's death. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings over time. ... A purist is one who desires that a particular item remain true to its essence and free from adulterating or diluting influences. ... ...

In his 1988 book on The Lives of John Lennon, Goldman drew the wrath of fans after being repeatedly critical of the dead music icon and alleging that Lennon had a homosexual relationship with The Beatles manager, Brian Epstein. The book contained some unsubstantiated conjecture by Goldman, including the allegation that Lennon solicited underage male prostitutes in Thailand. It was lambasted by Rolling Stone in what Goldman described as an attempt to "discredit my biography." Concerning Goldman's account of Lennon's consumption of LSD, Luc Sante, in the New York Review of Books, said: "Goldman's background research was either slovenly or nonexistent." The author replied, "What is the basis for this sweeping and defamatory assertion? Absolutely nothing save for my quoting only one book about LSD. Yet if Sante knew anything about drugs, he would recognize that the only serious problem about Lennon's consumption of LSD was one that has no literature; namely, the question of what effect this drug has upon a man who takes it every day, eating it 'like candy.' " The Lives of John Lennon was a 1988 biography of Lennon by American author Albert Goldman. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... The Beatles were an English pop and rock music group from Liverpool, who continue to be held in the very highest regard for their artistic achievements, their huge commercial success, and their ground-breaking role in the history of popular music. ... Brian Epstein, The Beatles manager and a force behind the groups early success. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... // History John Lennon - RS 1 (November 9, 1967)How I Won the War Film Still Founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner (who is still editor and publisher) and music critic Ralph J. Gleason, Rolling Stone was initially identified with and reported on the hippie counterculture of the... For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ...

Not everything Goldman wrote was negative. In his book on Lenny Bruce, he rated Bruce as one of the greatest comic geniuses ever and in a Life Magazine article, he referred to Elvin Jones as "the world's greatest rhythmic drummer." Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was a controversial American stand-up comedian, writer and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. ... A cover of Life Magazine from 1911 Life has been the name of two notable magazines published in the United States. ... Elvin Jones Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was a jazz drummer. ...

He was memorably portrayed by Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live. Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American graphic artist, writer, actor, voice artist and comedian. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC nearly every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ...

Partial bibliography:

• Ladies and gentlemen - Lenny Bruce!! (1971)
• Freakshow;: The rocksoulbluesjazzsickjewblackhumorsexpoppsych gig and other scenes from the counter-culture (1971)
• Carnival in Rio (1978)
• Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today (1979)
• Disco (1979)
• Elvis (1981)
• The Lives of John Lennon (1988)
• Elvis: The Last 24 Hours (1990)
• Sound Bites (1992)
• Freakshow : Misadventures in the Counterculture, 1959-1971 (2001) - posthumous collection

The Lives of John Lennon was a 1988 biography of Lennon by American author Albert Goldman. ...

External links

• SNL transcript of Albert Goldman as the fifth Beatle
• New York Review of Books on John Lennon
• The Lives of John Lennon - Reply by Albert Goldman