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			'''Geoffrey Giuliano''' (born September 11, 1953)<ref name="tell"> ''Tell Me What You See - Biography - A Brief Life Sketch of Geoffrey Giuliano/Jagannatha Dasa'', downloaded from internet on May 13, 2011</ref> is an American author of biographies of rock musicians.

			==Literary work==
	Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11,1953) is an American author, radio personality and film actor, best known for his biographies of The Beatles members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, and of musician Pete Townshend.
			Giuliano has written extensively on popular music, particularly ]. By 1999, he had authored 20 books, including ''Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison'' (1990) and ''Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney'' (1991).

			In an interview for '']'' in September 1992, Giuliano offended ]'s wife ] by referring to the Beatles as "real shits in real life" and dismissing ] as "just shallow and vacuous".<ref>{{cite book\|last=Badman\|first=Keith\|title=The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001\|publisher= Omnibus Press\|location=London\|year=2001\|isbn=978-0-7119-8307-6\|page=486}}</ref> On October 5 that year, ''The Guardian'' published a letter from Olivia Harrison in which she wrote that "like a starving dog he scavenges his heroes, picking up bits of gristle and sinew along the way."<ref>{{cite news\|first=Will\|last=Woodward\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/dec/31/willwoodward1\|title='Mrs George' Shares Husband's Interests\|newspaper=]\|date=December 31, 1999\|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref>{{sfn\|Badman\|2001\|p=487}} She also complained about Giuliano's use of a quote by Harrison on the cover of ''Dark Horse'', saying: "My husband once made the remark: 'That guy knows more about my life than I do.' Giuliano missed the joke and used it to endorse his book."{{sfn\|Badman\|2001\|p=487}} When interviewed in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, Harrison said of Giuliano: "Yeah, I met him briefly. I have no way of recalling what year it was. I met him at the home of ] for possibly thirty minutes."<ref> by Geoffrey Giuliano and Vrnda Devi, Da Capo Press, published 1999, pp. 179-180.</ref>
	Contents
	1 Biography
	2 Literary work
	3 Hindu beliefs
	4 Films and other media
	5 Ronald McDonald and animal rights
	6 References
	7 External links



			Giuliano's biography of ], ''Lennon in America: 1971–1980'' (], 2000), was controversial. Giuliano said the book was based in part on transcripts of Lennon's diaries given to him by the late American singer ] and on audio tapes recorded by Lennon. Several people close to Nilsson said they did not believe that he ever had the transcripts in his possession; others familiar with the journal and the tapes disputed the accuracy of Giuliano's interpretation.<ref name="Heaney/BuffaloNews">{{cite news\|first=James\|last=Heaney\|title=Lennon, Imagined\|url=http://213.87.37.135/oea/millennium/news/00_may/28_buffalonews_1025088.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094923/http://213.87.37.135/oea/millennium/news/00_may/28_buffalonews_1025088.htm\|newspaper=]\|date=May 28, 2000\|archive-date=September 28, 2007\|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref> Writing in '']'', ] described Giuliano's text as "a highly critical, luridly detailed account"; he quoted Giuliano's response when he was asked to corroborate his claim that Nilsson gave him the diaries: "It's obvious that I'm going to do things in an ethical manner." Steven Gutstein, a former New York assistant district attorney who read the diaries during an early 1980s larceny lawsuit, recalled that they contained "a lot of philosophical musings combined with mundane details of everyday life".<ref>{{cite news\|first=David\|last=Segal\|title=Lennon's Disputed Days in the Life; Yoko Ono Spokesman Rejects as 'Fiction' Bio Allegedly Based on Ex-Beatle's Lost Diaries\|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/408618874\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913044526/https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/doc/408618874.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr%2018,%202000&author=David%20Segal&pub=&edition=&startpage=&desc=Lennon%27s%20Disputed%20Days%20in%20the%20Life\|newspaper=]\|date=April 18, 2000\|page=C01\|archive-date=September 13, 2017\|url-status=live\|access-date=February 28, 2019}}</ref> Colin Carlson of ''Library Journal'' said of ''Lennon in America'', "Non-fans will be put off by this image of Lennon as cad, drug addict, and paranoiac; this often sensationalized account is for voyeurs and fans with deconstructive tendencies and is one of the best, most detailed books available on this subject."<ref>Book Review, Lennon in America, ''Library Journal'', May 1, 2000</ref> Less impressed, a ''Publishers Weekly'' reviewer commented, "If Giuliano's own double-talk isn't enough to diminish this work's credibility, his endless, voyeuristic descriptions of Lennon's sexual encounters are."<ref>Book Review, Lennon in America, Publishers Weekly, May 1, 2000</ref>
	Biography
	Giuliano was born in Rochester, New York and raised in the villages of Albion and Olcott Beach, New York. He was the youngest of five children. He and his mother, Myrna Oneita Giuliano, moved to Tampa, Florida when he was twelve. There he first became interested in acting, Vedic philosophy and fine art seriography.

			===Selected bibliography===
	Giuliano attended Hillsborough Community College in Tampa and, in the mid-1970s, SUNY Brockport (class of 1976). On August 6, 1977, Giuliano married Brenda Lee Black (later author/animal rights activist Vrnda Devi) in Hillsborough County, Florida, and together they had four children, Sesa Nichole, Devin Leigh, Avalon Oneita and India Skye. He also has a young son from another relationship, Tulsi Mala Kuptsov born in Bangkok in mid July 2003.
			*''Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison'' (1990)
			*''Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney'' (1991)
			*''The Lost Beatles Interviews'' (1994)
			*''Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones'' (1994)
			*''Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend'' (1996)<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-553-52589-2 \|title = Audio Book Review: GEORGE HARRISON: A Tribute by Geoffrey Giuliano, Author, Geoffrey Giuliano, Narrated by, Various, Read by , read by the author. Random $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52589-2}}</ref>
			*''Lennon in America: 1971–1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries'' (2000)

			==Films and other media ==
	Giuliano has resided primarily in Southeast Asia since 2000 with his two grandchildren, Kashi and Varsana Jones. In April of 2007 he married Kesorn Faunmaong, a Bangkok executive at Citicorp of Issan descent.

			He had a role in '']'' and the costume drama '']''. In 2021 he played "VIP #4" in ].

			The 2005 film ''Stoned: The Wild & Wicked World of Brian Jones'' was "based on and inspired by" the book, one of which was Guiliano's ''Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones''.<ref> March 24, 2006]</ref><ref> by Chris Payne, Channel4.com</ref>
	Literary work
	Giuliano has written some thirty five often controversial biographies on 1960's musicians and several audio works (100 to date) on subjects as diverse as Frank Sinatra as well as archival interviews with survivors of the Titanic entitled, "That Fateful Night: True Stories of Titanic Survivors In Their Own Words." Giuliano has also authored two London Sunday Times bestselling biographies, "Dark Horse: The Secret Life of George Harrison" and "Blackbird: The Life And Times Of Paul McCartney." Along the way, he has collaborated with John Lennon's half-sister Julia Baird and British BBC TV personality Gloria Hunniford. Steve Holly wrote the backword to his Blackbird book, and Timothy Leary penned the backword to Giuliano's the Lost Beatles Interviews. In late 1998, Random House Audio asked Giuliano to form a company for them called Tribute Audio (see information regarding Giuliano's many audio releases on Amazon.com), which produced a line of celebrity, interview laced, original spoken word CDs, all written, produced and narrated by the author. He worked in that capacity for some five years.

			==References==
	Giuliano has been a likely target for many fans of his biographical subjects due to his unrelenting warts and all writing style. On August 11, 1996 the Calgary Sun made the point in a review of his work on the life of the Who's Pete Townshend. "Unlike so many fawning rock biographers who lavish false praise on a bunch of worthless morons, Giuliano has the ability to get to the heart of the man and by doing so gives readers a glimpse of a period in history. Fans will never get closer to the man than in "Behind Blue Eyes" Unfortunately, Giuliano does such a magnificent job that many fans may wish they had never searched so hard." Giuliano told Eye Weekly that he briefly worked for Townshend, but was fired after stealing a tape from him. A research assistant of Giuliano's subsequently wrote to the newspaper to defend him.
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	A biography Giuliano authored about John Lennon (released in 2000) was similarly controversial. Giuliano claimed the book was based in part on transcripts of Lennon's journal given to him by the singer Harry Nilsson, who died on January 16, 1994. The claim was made after Nilsson's death, and several people close to Nilsson do not believe he ever had the transcripts in his possession. Washington Post reporter David Segal quoted Giuliano's response when he was asked to corroborate his claim that Nilsson gave him the diaries. "My wife knows, my son knows. I'm already a rich man. It's obvious I'm going to do things in an ethical manner." Segal also reported the view of Steven Gutstein, a former New York assistant district attorney who was asked to read the diaries during an early 1980's larceny lawsuit against former Lennon personal assistant Fred Seaman. After reading some of the more sensational claims in Giuliano's book, Gutstein commented, "This is a Mad magazine version of the diaries." Gutstein described his own memory of the diaries as "a lot of philosophical musings combined with mundane details of everyday life." Asked how she would respond to the book, Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono commented, "Ugh, Geoffrey Giuliano, oh, I don't want to comment on him. If you follow all his other writings, you know all about him. We know him, and that's what bothers him, I suppose."
			* {{Official website\|http://www.geoffreygiuliano.com}}
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	Both the public and reviewers were torn over the controversial tome. On July 15, 2000 Colin Carlson of the Library Journal commented, "Non-fans will be put off by this image of Lennon as cad, drug addict, and paranoiac; this often sensationalized account is for voyeurs and fans with deconstructive tendencies and is one of the best, most detailed books available on this subject." A Washington Post review of Giuliano's Lennon book said, "In exhaustive detail, using information purportedly gleaned from an unpublished Lennon diary (a text never directly quoted from), Giuliano reveals the not-so-shocking news that Lennon was not an altogether happy man. In other words, we get more of the character assassination that was begun in such high style by Albert Goldman's notorious The Lives of John Lennon." A "Publisher's Weekly" reviewer commented, "If Giuliano's own double-talk isn't enough to diminish this work's credibility, his endless, voyeuristic descriptions of Lennon's sexual encounters are." BBC News Online's Helen Bushby too reviewed the highly contentious tome on October 14, 2001 stating; "Lennon in America claims to be a warts and all account of Lennon's years in the US, between 1971 and 1980, the year he was murdered. Its author, Geoffrey Giuliano, doesn't pull any punches, choosing to begin the book with a rather salacious prologue detailing some of Lennon's many sexual experiences. Giuliano attempts to offer some insight into Lennon's psyche, saying the "true saga" of Lennon began when he was 14 and his mother made a pass at him. Lennon grew up into an adult with "no perspective, nothing to check the rage of the lonely child bruised by Oedipal confusion and blatant abandonment", writes Giuliano. This may well be true, but this revelation, plus others including Lennon's confusion over his sexuality and his violent tendencies seemed rather sordid when condensed into a single chapter.

	The rest of the account is perhaps less of a surprise - giving a chronological account of Lennon's life in the US from 1971 onwards, when he left the UK never to return again. The book details much about Lennon's tempestuous relationship with second wife Yoko and his elder son Julian, as well as his difficulty raising his younger son Sean. Yoko Ono comes out of the book particularly badly, and is often depicted as a wife who needed to control her husband, usually to his detriment. The book also claims that Ono had decided before Lennon's death that she would end the marriage. Luciano Sparacino, who did renovations for the Lennons, is quoted as saying he was told by Ono in 1980: "I'm bored with John, tired of the Lennon name, and tired of living in his shadow. As soon as the album is off the ground the marriage is over. I'm planning to leave him."

	The bio also claims that Lennon struggled with a heroin addiction, voracious sexual appetite and many neuroses. But aside from these revelations, many of which have been documented, the book also tries to offer insight into Lennon's day-to-day existence with Yoko, and latterly, Sean. It says he lived a reclusive lifestyle, often trying to stick to the stringent diets Yoko put him on, while struggling to maintain the musical success he had enjoyed with The Beatles. It also details his often strained relationship with his former songwriting partner Paul McCartney, as well as the pair's happier moments.

	Giuliano trawled through Lennon's unpublished diaries, but rather than publish their contents he used them as backup for his interviews. He spoke to many people to gain eyewitness accounts, including Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Lennon's sometime lover May Pang. This book will no doubt be a must for Lennon fans the world over, as long as they do not mind their hero being knocked firmly off his pedestal. It is a riveting read and Lennon comes across as a rather tragic character, whose stunning success won him the adoration of millions. But as the old adage goes - it was not enough to make him happy.

	A September 15, 2006 review of Giuliano's book Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles in Kirkus Reviews said: "The few scraps of new information presented emanate from Giuliano's connection to George Harrison, but he fails to adequately explain his relationship with the former Beatle." David Pitt reviewing for Booklist, published by the American Library Association looked far more kindly on the work however. "Drawing on a variety of exclusive interviews with many of the principals, this latest Beatles bio focuses on an aspect of the group with which some fans may not be sufficiently familiar. Although the group's public image was one of playfulness and big smiles, the Fab Four were often mired in internal politics and conflict. The book details the enormous pressures the Beatles operated under and shows that, in addition to musicians, they very quickly had to become businessmen and diplomats. The Giulianos also offer up an assortment of trivia tidbits that may come as a surprise to some readers. For instance: Paul sang lead vocals on "Love Me Do," although it was supposed to be John; a key line in "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was a blooper; John, not Ringo, played drums on "Back in the USSR." The book's usefulness to Beatle fans will depend entirely on how much they have already read about the group, but one thing is certain: for the average reader, it's an eye-opener."

	George Harrison, interviewed in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, was asked if he had ever met Giuliano. He replied, "Yeah, I met him briefly. I have no way of recalling what year it was. I met him at the home of "Legs" Larry Smith for possibly thirty minutes. I visited with Mr. Smith and he was in his flat." In the same interview, he stated, "There is a certain trick to the way Giuliano goes about his work. He acts as if he is kind of authorized, and these people, not just him, but all these type of people, have a skill of wheedling their way into places that are going to be some benefit to them in getting their books written."


	Hindu beliefs
	In the March, 1991 edition of Hinduism Today, Giuliano was once quoted as saying: "I'm very orthodox. The only books I read are religious Indian texts." The article also stated that while still working for McDonald's Giuliano met a sannyasa Bhaktihirday Mangalniloy Maharaja at a Hare Krishna temple in Toronto, and became his disciple. It also mentioned that Geoffrey and his first wife Vrnda Devi were raising their four children as vegetarian Hindus.

	Giuliano explained his relationship to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in an editorial in the September 10, 1999 edition of Vaishnava News, stating that he had been "vaguely" critical of ISKCON over the years, but adding, "Can I ever repay the personal debt to ISKCON that I've had? Absolutely not, nor can now my children, in the second generation." According to the official website of SRI (srilotus.com) in the late 1990s Giuliano founded the umbrella charity, SRI/The Spiritual Realization Institute (and later Sri Radhe International Inc.) which manifested as a free veggie food pantry (Dasa Food For All) in Lockport, New York, as well as an animal sanctuary, Devotional Yoga center, spiritual retreat and not-for-profit publishing house. In September, 1998, Giuliano/Jagannatha Dasa offered "any qualified, responsible devotee of Sri Sri Radha Krishna who is presently dissatisfied with their current membership, association or seva with ISKCON" a "position of authority at least equal to their current service (and in many cases, greater) within SRI's international organization."


	Films and other media
	Giuliano co-directed the DVD "The Beatles A Celebration." A review on Beatles Collectors.com stated that "the production itself is very unprofessional," and that its content consists of "a tabloid style account covering only the negative publicity that cropped up during the Beatles career." Giuliano went on to play a supporting role as pirate Captain Li in a made-for-television movie that aired on the Hallmark Channel cable network called "Mysterious Island." Since that time he has co-starred in the about to be released film "Lost At Sea" and also stared in the action thriller, "Bangkok Adrenaline"

	On November 19, 2005, a film, "Stoned: The Wild & Wicked World of Brian Jones," premiered in London. The movie was directed by Stephen Woolley and co-produced by Nik Powell, the producing team behind such films as "Mona Lisa," "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Crying Game." The film was "based on and inspired by" Guiliano's book "Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones," as well as Terry Robbins' "Who Killed Christopher Robin" and Anna Wohlin's "The Murder of Brian Jones." Producer/Director Stephen Wooley has said that he saw Giuliano's book in a bookstore and brought it to the attention of his screenwriters. The screenwriters responded by asking if he had seen Robbins' book, which Wooley then read and found to be much more detailed than Giuliano's. Wooley also interviewed Anna Wohlin, Brian Jones' last girlfriend, who wrote her own book subsequent to the interview, causing Wooley to buy the rights to her book as well as the others. Commenting on the relative importance of the diverse source material for the movie, Wooley said, "In the end it wasn't so much the books, it was talking to both Anna about the state of Brian's mind that night, and Janet (a nurse who was present at Brian Jones' home on the day he died), about Frank's (the alleged murderer of Jones) state of mind that night - his instability and the fact he just been fired that day without being properly paid - that confirmed in my mind there was a movie here."

	As a singer songwriter Giuliano has released two CDs, "Chocolate Wings" (2001)and the Indo fusion work, "God Dwells Within" (2006). Giluiano's website includes a song called "Food For All/Homes For All" which co-wrote with former Moody Blues and Wings guitarist Denny Laine. According to the website the song was recorded at Mark Recording Studios in Clarence, New York, by Laine, Ritchie Havens, Ginger Baker and Ben E. King.

	In late 2005 Giuliano was hired by an American radio syndicator, KGB, to host a series of two-hour radio shows, "Geoffrey Giuliano's Roots Of Rock", which aired on more than 60 stations in the United States and Canada. The shows produced so far have highlighted such classic rock acts as the Beatles, U2, and Jimi Hendrix.


	Ronald McDonald and animal rights
	Giuliano worked for an ad agency in Toronto, Canada portraying McDonald's advertising figurehead Ronald McDonald for "basically a year and a half," travelling to personal appearances for "The Ronald McDonald Safety Show." A statement dated "Fall/Summer 1990" in which Giuliano decried "concerns who make their millions off the murder of countless animals and the exploitation of children for their own ends" was submitted on behalf of the plaintiffs in the 1991 London McLibel case. In an interview he gave in London some years later, Geoffrey summed up his bad experience playing Ronald north of the border. "There's no question that I was manipulating these children. I was a highly paid, highly trained, highly polished actor. Every show was a performance and I had a mandate to get that message out there, and yeah, it was not too hard - anybody can manipulate a child. I just went home one night, and I said, 'I cannot do this, I can't live with myself if I continue to do this.' Giuliano also played the Marvelous Magical Burger King for the Burger King Corporation doing shows and other appearances throughout New England. The author /actor has spoken widely regarding his turbulent term as the McDonald's clown and the shadowy ethical implications of factory farming and animal rights for such groups as PETA. Giuliano has been an ardent vegetarian abstaining from meat, fish or eggs since 1970. In 2001 Giuliano published the book, "Compassionate Cuisine," authored by then wife Vrnda Devi.


	References
	^ Alumni Spotlight - SUNY Brockport Division of Institutional Advancement, 2006
	^ Florida Department of Health marriage records, Ancestry.com
	^ News article: "Infamous Beatles hack remains unrepentant" Eye Weekly, May 11, 2000.
	^ "Letter to the Editor, The Mother Teresa of Rock Journalism" - Eye Weekly, June 29, 2000
	^ Harry Nilsson Obituaryalt.obituaries usenet group,posted January 15, 2006
	^
	^ Lennon's Disputed Days in the Life: Yoko Ono Spokesman Rejects as 'Fiction' Bio Allegedly Based on Ex-Beatle's Lost Diaries The Washington Post, Style Section, April 18, 2000
	^ 21 Minutes With Yoko Ono Lou Carlozo, Chicago Tribune, Tempo Section, November 17, 2000
	^ Book Review, Lennon in America, Library Journal, May 1, 2000
	^ Love Them Do The Washington Post, Book World Section, October 8, 2000
	^ Book Review, Lennon in America, Publisher's Weekly, May 1, 2000
	^ Review of Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles - Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 2006
	^ a b "Former Ronald McDonald Turns Vegetarian Activist". Hinduism Today (March 1991). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.
	^ Poison CD Hoax by Jagannatha Dasa, Vaishnava News, September 10, 1999
	^ SRI/GBC Resolves, letter written by Jagannatha Dasa, Vaishnava News, September 5, 1998
	^ "The Beatles: Celebration" at imdb.. Internet Movie Database.
	^ Beatles Celebration - Geoffrey Giuliano, Review by Sooz. Sumaree Promotions.
	^ "Mysterious Island" at imdb.. Internet Movie Database.
	^ Stoned (movie review) March 24, 2006]
	^ Stephen Wooley on Stoned by Chris Payne, Channel4.com
	^ Geoffrey Giuliano's Roots of Rock. geoffreygiuliano.com.
	^ CONFESSIONS OF A CORPORATE CLOWN, McSpotlight.org website]
	^ "CONFESSIONS OF A CORPORATE CLOWN McSpotlight.org website
	^ "Interview," One-Off Productions, 1997
	^ "Clowns - Ronald McDonald". Tv Acres. Retrieved on 2007-02-08.

	External links
	www.geoffreygiuliano.com
	Geoffrey Giuliano at the Internet Movie Database
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Geoffrey Giuliano
Born	(1953-09-11) September 11, 1953 (age 71) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Occupation	author
Website	www.geoffreygiuliano.com

Geoffrey Giuliano (born September 11, 1953) is an American author of biographies of rock musicians.

Literary work

Giuliano has written extensively on popular music, particularly the Beatles. By 1999, he had authored 20 books, including Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison (1990) and Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney (1991).

In an interview for The Guardian in September 1992, Giuliano offended George Harrison's wife Olivia by referring to the Beatles as "real shits in real life" and dismissing Paul McCartney as "just shallow and vacuous". On October 5 that year, The Guardian published a letter from Olivia Harrison in which she wrote that "like a starving dog he scavenges his heroes, picking up bits of gristle and sinew along the way." She also complained about Giuliano's use of a quote by Harrison on the cover of Dark Horse, saying: "My husband once made the remark: 'That guy knows more about my life than I do.' Giuliano missed the joke and used it to endorse his book." When interviewed in Los Angeles on December 14, 1992, Harrison said of Giuliano: "Yeah, I met him briefly. I have no way of recalling what year it was. I met him at the home of "Legs" Larry Smith for possibly thirty minutes."

Giuliano's biography of John Lennon, Lennon in America: 1971–1980 (Cooper Square Press, 2000), was controversial. Giuliano said the book was based in part on transcripts of Lennon's diaries given to him by the late American singer Harry Nilsson and on audio tapes recorded by Lennon. Several people close to Nilsson said they did not believe that he ever had the transcripts in his possession; others familiar with the journal and the tapes disputed the accuracy of Giuliano's interpretation. Writing in The Washington Post, David Segal described Giuliano's text as "a highly critical, luridly detailed account"; he quoted Giuliano's response when he was asked to corroborate his claim that Nilsson gave him the diaries: "It's obvious that I'm going to do things in an ethical manner." Steven Gutstein, a former New York assistant district attorney who read the diaries during an early 1980s larceny lawsuit, recalled that they contained "a lot of philosophical musings combined with mundane details of everyday life". Colin Carlson of Library Journal said of Lennon in America, "Non-fans will be put off by this image of Lennon as cad, drug addict, and paranoiac; this often sensationalized account is for voyeurs and fans with deconstructive tendencies and is one of the best, most detailed books available on this subject." Less impressed, a Publishers Weekly reviewer commented, "If Giuliano's own double-talk isn't enough to diminish this work's credibility, his endless, voyeuristic descriptions of Lennon's sexual encounters are."

Selected bibliography

Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison (1990)
Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney (1991)
The Lost Beatles Interviews (1994)
Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones (1994)
Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend (1996)
Lennon in America: 1971–1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries (2000)

Films and other media

He had a role in Scorpion King 3 and the costume drama Vikingdom. In 2021 he played "VIP #4" in Squid Game.

The 2005 film Stoned: The Wild & Wicked World of Brian Jones was "based on and inspired by" the book, one of which was Guiliano's Paint It Black: The Murder of Brian Jones.

References

tell Tell Me What You See - Biography - A Brief Life Sketch of Geoffrey Giuliano/Jagannatha Dasa, downloaded from internet on May 13, 2011
Badman, Keith (2001). The Beatles Diary Volume 2: After the Break-Up 1970–2001. London: Omnibus Press. p. 486. ISBN 978-0-7119-8307-6.
Woodward, Will (December 31, 1999). "'Mrs George' Shares Husband's Interests". The Guardian. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
^ Badman 2001, p. 487.
Glass Onion: The Beatles in Their Own Words by Geoffrey Giuliano and Vrnda Devi, Da Capo Press, published 1999, pp. 179-180.
Heaney, James (May 28, 2000). "Lennon, Imagined". The Buffalo News. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
Segal, David (April 18, 2000). "Lennon's Disputed Days in the Life; Yoko Ono Spokesman Rejects as 'Fiction' Bio Allegedly Based on Ex-Beatle's Lost Diaries". The Washington Post. p. C01. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
Book Review, Lennon in America, Library Journal, May 1, 2000
Book Review, Lennon in America, Publishers Weekly, May 1, 2000
"Audio Book Review: GEORGE HARRISON: A Tribute by Geoffrey Giuliano, Author, Geoffrey Giuliano, Narrated by, Various, Read by , read by the author. Random $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52589-2".
Stoned (movie review) March 24, 2006]
Stephen Wooley on Stoned by Chris Payne, Channel4.com

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