Spot the Error in McCartney Bio Review

Bernadette Phillips, reviewing Peter Carlin's recent biography of Paul McCartney for the Winnipeg Free Press, doesn't have much positive to say about the book. But can you trust someone who gets her history wrong?

Only two of the former Beatles survive. George Harrison died of cancer in 2001, and John Lennon was gunned down as he signed an autograph for his murderer outside his New York apartment in 1980.

Though John had indeed signed Mark Chapman's copy of Double Fantasy earlier on the fateful evening of December 8, 1980, Lennon was on his way into the lobby of the Dakota when Chapman stepped from the shadows and shot the Beatles founder four times in the back.

Chapman's signed album has, though, an interesting history. After being picked up at the murder scene and used in the prosecution, the album was sold in 1999 (for an undisclosed sum of between $150,000 and $460,000). It is currently up for sale.

I could comment, but I won't. Suffice it to say that there isn't a good reason for wanting to own this ghoulish bit of memorabilia.