I Me Mine - I Me Mine Book

I Me Mine Book

Harrison's autobiography I Me Mine was published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications. It was limited to 2000 signed copies, with a foreword by Derek Taylor. The Genesis limited edition sold out soon after publication, and was subsequently published in hardback and paperback in black ink by W H Allen in London and by Simon and Schuster in New York. The book was released a few weeks before the assassination of John Lennon which also happened in New York. Lennon took offence to the book, telling interviewer David Sheff that "I was hurt by it ... By glaring omission in the book, my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil ... I'm not in the book." In fact, Harrison does mention Lennon several times. I Me Mine was re-published with a new foreword from Olivia Harrison, his wife, in 2002.