Author: Joseph Niezgoda

ISBN: 978-0942257458

Publisher: New Chapter Press

On a bus ride home from school eight year old Joseph Niezgoda first learnt about The Beatles. They were going to be appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show and Joseph was determined to watch it. Niezgoda, who was an instant a fan, writes fondly of his love for the band. It seemed that the fresh-faced boys from Liverpool had not only built up a huge fan base in Britain but also in America.

Ever since that day Niezgoda has remained a buff and with twenty-five years of dedicated research into his favorite band, you’d think this author knew what he was talking about. However, probably as the case with many other readers, I am of two minds: “did we read that right?”

Apparently, Niezgoda has reason to believe that John Lennon made a pact with the devil in exchange for his twenty years of fame and in return, he promised his soul. Although, many of us are aware, John did in fact experience a phase of strange moods when he was a member of The Beatles. Nonetheless, you have to question, would a man who started out as lovely as John really make a pact with the devil?  It seems the author has latched onto this idea and claims it is the only explanation how this young man, who was a nobody, became an over night star.

Frankly, I really didn’t know what to believe, however, because Niezgoda’s way of thinking was so intriguing and fascinating, I was compelled to read on. He states that the clues to John’s pact are to be found in The Beatle’s album work, as well as before. The book presents many examples and once you have an understanding how this author’s mind works, you can actually see it from his perspective- part of you wants to accept what he is narrating.

For instance, it is mentioned that the 1965’s cover album for Rubber Soul depicts the band looking into a grave with John being the only member looking straight down - “perhaps forecasting his fate.” Another that really intrigued me was the cover of A Collection of Beatles Oldies. Niezgoda explains that if you study it carefully, the cover artwork and lettering actually spells out “JOL DIES,” meaning John Ono Lennon dies. And if you follow from here and take a look at the Sgt. Pepper album cover, again you can appreciate the author’s point of view that maybe this also depicts John’s death (he says it looks rather like “the scene of John Lennon’s funeral.”)

The famous album cover for Abbey Road is likewise scrutinized by Niezgoda. He backs up his contention that this was perhaps depicting a funeral procession and that John knew his fate singing, “shoot me” at the beginning of the album’s first song.

After John’s infamous statement that he was more famous than Jesus, hatred and retaliation for the “fab four” started. Radio stations banned Beatle tracks, religious leaders even turned against them in a number of ways and a huge bonfire of all Beatle memorabilia was organized.  There were also threats made against The Beatles and this of course left all members, apart from John, terrified. Niezgoda believes it was because John knew that his pact with the devil would spare him from death for another 14 years.

Is this right? I don’t think anyone can make these sort of assumptions - especially if you weren’t a close friend or family member of John’s. Although, what we do know is that the devil was said to play a big part in Mark David Chapman’s life and that when he fired the fatal shots that would kill John, he was acting in favour of the devil and was at the time possessed by demons.

Is this author a parasite just trying to feed off John’s fame and untimely death or does he really know something in his examination of the “death clues of The Beatles?”

A strange, intriguing, yet fascinating book that no doubt is set to face much analysis and I do wonder will there be an outcry from the millions of Beatle fans out there?

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