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By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published April 15, 2007

These new books chronicle the lives of three musical originals.

Lennon Revealed (Running Press) by Larry Kane is an affectionate, impressionistic memoir of the author's longtime friendship with John Lennon, whom Kane first met as a reporter during the Beatles' American tours.

To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt (Da Capo) by John Kruth is a biography of the gifted, troubled singer-songwriter. (For my money, Van Zandt's Pancho and Lefty alone beats a lot of other songwriters' entire catalogs.)

Iggy: Open Up and Bleed (Broadway Books) by Paul Trynka is the first bio of Iggy Pop, the inimitable, uncontrollable godfather of punk. So what if Lust for Life is now a soundtrack for a cruise line ad; Iggy can still kick Green Day's butt.

Colette Bancroft, Times book editor

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