page 323 regarding 1966 and Bob Dylan's influence on John Lennon.
"In his efforts to conform to this austerely autobiographical standard of "first person music," however, Lennon came up against the very limitations that fiction was designed to overcome. Autobiographic writing places inordinate demands on the quality of a writer's experience. And while the cult of celebrity may be based on the premise that fame itself is an exaltation, exposing its beneficiaries to realms of experience and awareness of which ordinary people can only dream, the reality for John Lennon (no less than for other celebrities) had settled into something more mundane..."
