Excerpt from Observer Magazine:

If much has been published about the Beatles, seemingly more has been written about John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Still, most writing has had a biographer’s distance, so close friend Elliot Mintz’s memoir, We All Shine On, promises to reveal details of the secretive sanctums and sacred spaces of one over-studied celebrity pairing. Mintz, a radio host when he met the two, became so close he installed a special hotline for Lennon and Ono and talked to one (or the other) almost every day for a decade. Covering the last ten years of Lennon’s life, the memoir recreates private histories shared with Mintz behind closed doors. There are Lennon’s unscripted thoughts on his Beatles compatriots and peers like Bob Dylan, plus new details on the infamous “lost weekend” (the so-called eight months Lennon and Ono were separated). Mintz says it was a memoir he was never to write, only encouraged to do so after talking with the couple’s son, Sean Ono Lennon, at a party in 2023.