![]() ![]() En route, John languishes in a nearby hotel reading Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and sings duets with a street dog he names Brian Wilson (who moans “softly and tunefully in perfect counterpoint”). ![]() The Irish writer Kevin Barry’s riotous second novel Beatlebone imagines that John goes back to the island in 1978, during his creative slump and existential crisis, to sit amid nothingness and scream (or, as the New Age gurus he frequented would say, Scream) for three days. Yoko Ono sold it at a huge profit after Lennon died, donating the proceeds to a local orphanage. He never followed through, though a few of his friends tried, until their shelters caught fire in the early ’70s. ![]() This much is true: In 1967, John Lennon bought a tiny, rock-strewn island in Clew Bay, one of 180 clumps of turf and stone rimming the coast of northwest Ireland, with the idea of turning it into a hippie commune. ![]()
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