I thought that this book was great. I love the Beatles(like anyone with any taste in music should)and this book thoroughly covered every detail of, in my opinion, there most profound member. Though some of the facts that Norman mentions are unnecessary, they were still fun to read about. This ...
Updated to include Paul McCartney’s knighting and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band—a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought completely...
Even more amazingly, she had demanded no hefty regular maintenance payments from Mick as the price of her silence. All that mattered to Marsha, she would later explain, was that he acknowledged being Karis’s father and seemed to want to keep seeing her. With idealism perhaps possible only in a si...
His voice, usually so measured, climbs to an unusually high register as if sensing the desolation ahead: ‘And it wouldn’t be the same/ If you ever should decide to go away’. The boy who lost his mother to breast cancer had got through it by ‘learn[ing] to put a shell around me’. For the 55-year-o...
SEVEN“WHAT BRINGS MR. EPSTEIN HERE?”Each Wednesday night in the late 1930s little Joe Flannery would be dressed in his nightclothes and taken to spend the evening at the house of his father’s best customer, Harry Epstein. Joe’s father, Chris Flannery, was a cabinetmaker specializing in the heavy ...