On Friday, November 7, 2003 at 1:43:58 AM UTC-5, Kenneth Leja wrote:
I found it pretty compelling. Was he really an infantile man in his
last decade of his life, a bad father and indifferent artist and
husband?
It is nearly impossible to have an intelligent discussion of Goldman's book. A lot of people take the mention of the author's name as the cue to start in with the lies and profanities. E.g., I've read on dozens of occasions that "Goldman says that John
killed Stu Sutcliffe." That claim is false.
What Goldman actually says is this: "The mysterious illness that killed Stu was not diagnosed until after a postmortem had been performed; then the doctors discovered a small tumor on the brain. The lesion lay directly beneath an indentation on the
right side of the skull. It had been obviously produced by a traumatic injury. Stu's mother and Allan Williams associated this finding with a beating that Stu had allegedly received at Litherland Town Hall before his second trip to Hamburg , a year
before his death. Investigation reveals that the fight was not at Litherland but at nearby Lathom Hall. Stu was trapped in the balcony by a gang of thugs, whom John and Pete drove off, John suffering a broken finger in the punch-up. Pete Best's
recollection of the incident is vivid, but he does not recall that Stu was struck in the head."
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