We All Shine On

Praise

A People Best Celebrity Memoir of 2024

“It’s hard to define the relationship Elliot had with our family. But I ultimately think the best word to describe him is: friend. Perhaps our closest friend. The reason I wanted Elliot to write a book, first and foremost, is because he is a good storyteller. The fact that he was there in the lives of John and Yoko (and mine), is really just icing on the cake. I like hearing him talk, and I’m sure you will, too.” —Sean Ono Lennon

“Packed with insider details about Lennon and Ono’s unique creative alchemy, Lennon’s fabled, debaucherous “Lost Weekend” apart from Ono in Los Angeles between 1973-1975 and the horrifying aftermath of Lennon’s 1980 murder, We All Shine On is, at last, Mintz’s story too. In it, he ponders what his life might have been like had he never picked up that phone in the first place (he never married or had children), and why, he, of all people, became the sympathetic ear of choice for Lennon, Ono and a wealth of other celebrities of the time.” —Spin News

“With We All Shine On: John, Yoko & Me, author and publicist Elliot Mintz fashions a heartbreaking portrait of Lennon’s life and times beyond the recording studio.” —Salon

“Elliot Mintz’s We All Shine On: John, Yoko and Me has the interests of Beatle People especially piqued. Arguably, no one was closer to John and Yoko Lennon during the 1970s or spent more time with them in person or on the phone than Mintz.” —Houston Press

“Radio personality Mintz debuts with a vivid account of the decade he spent as John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s confidante, fixer, and friend… It’s a captivating and intimate window into the complicated lives of one of rock’s most legendary couples.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“A charmingly modest tale of a long brush with stardom, with all its pleasures and frustrations.” —Kirkus

“We All Shine On makes readers feel as if they’ve spent time with the book’s subjects…you’ll likely find the captivating story of this unusual friendship unduly hard to put down.” —BookPage