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Tony Barrow, 69л., бывший пресс-секретарь Битлз презентовал свою книгу 'John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me - The Real Beatles Story', в которой дает свое видение 6 лет, проведенных с группой. Ниже приведена статья, в которой содержится краткой обзор любопытных моментов из книги.
Sep 7 2005
Mike Chapple discovers a new Beatles account with the authentic voice of someone who was there
Daily Post
THERE are not many people left to tell the Beatles story as it really happened.
If you discount the occasional reminiscences of the surviving Mop Tops themselves and the scurrilous Albert Goldman assassination of John Lennon currently being regurgitated in a national tabloid, there has been precious new material for fans of the band to lap up.
Until now. First there was Magical Mystery Tour, an excellent retrospective from ex-Beatles gofer and and jack of all trades Tony Bramwell published earlier this summer. And this week, it's the turn of another Liverpudlian, Tony Barrow, to add his own spins on what are, admittedly, some already familiar tales.
John, Paul, George, Ringo and Me is the former Beatles press officer's account of the six years he spent with "the boys" from the release of their debut single, Love Me Do, to the first death throes of the band in 1968.
The 69-year-old Crosby-born author to his credit lays out his stall from the start by stating that, wherever possible, he avoided "redistributing testimony from outsiders because that's where so many myths and false impressions have been created and spread by other writers".
This will disappoint those snared by Goldman's more lurid tales but Barrow's more balanced eye-witness accounts on incidents in Beatles lore are still of profound interest.
There's what Barrow believes to be the mythical affair between Lennon and manager Brian Epstein, a closet homosexual besotted with John.
"In the privacy of our own clique, John used to joke very openly about Epstein's advances and the joy he took in leading the poor man on, only to rebuff him at the eleventh hour," he says..
The rumour reached a head when Cavern DJ Bob Wooler was beaten up by Lennon at Paul's 21st birthday party in Huyton after he goaded him about the affair. Barrow had to clean up the mess as the tabloids hovered for tit bits. He eventually reached a very hung-over Lennon who murmured: "Wooler was well out of order. It wasn't the drink. The bastard had it coming. He teased me. I punched him."
Barrow also gives a graphic account of the rest of the Beatles' uneasy relationship with Yoko Ono - especially McCartney's - after she became a constant at Lennon's side. Previously "Beatles women" were strictly banned from studio recording sessions until Yoko decided to tag along with John. Paul retaliated by bringing along his partner, Linda, who, nevertheless, sensibly kept her voice down.
Barrow explains: "At one point, he told me quite seriously 'I never realised I had a big nose until I was famous and a bloke from the Jewish Chronicle rang me up. I had to explain that I wasn't Jewish'."
Lennon had no such innocence. He lived up to his reputation for being difficult with a vicious streak that could be directed not only at Barrow but especially Epstein, whom John sometimes mercilessly tormented for being both Jewish and homosexual.
It was exemplified when Lennon walked in on a meeting between Barrow and Epstein in Brian's office.
"Beaming broadly he walked towards me and shook my hand, an unusual thing for him to do. Brian then extended his hand but at the last moment John's hand plunged down to Epstein's groin and he grabbed tightly hold of his testicles. Epstein gasped in pain as John, gripping relentlessly, simply said 'whoops'! I was shocked and disgusted."
As each got to know the other better, his opinion changed. Lennon became the most "reliable buddy, pal and mate of the four over the years" as Barrow grew to understand Lennon's defence mechanisms.
"The blustering and verbal abuse were his way of preventing the development of any relationship that might go sour on him. The name of the game was get the the other bastard before he gets you . . .
"Beneath the bulletproof exterior, though, I had found a pitifully insecure man who doubted his own abilities and couldn't concentrate long enough on his songwriting to complete more than a fraction of his best work."
* JOHN, Paul, George, Ringo and Me - The Real Beatles Story, published by Andre Deutsch, #163;16.99.
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Издательство Averstream Press (www.averstreampress.com) объявило 20.09.05 о выпуске новой книги "Teenagers Guide to the Beatles," автора Zane Lalani, адресованной тинейджерам, потенциальным поклонникам Битлз, самим еще не осознавшим этого.
TAMPA, Fla. - September 20 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Averstream Press (www.averstreampress.com) today announced the publication of "Teenagers Guide to the Beatles," by Zane Lalani, a book designed to bring the Beatles to a new generation of teenage Beatles fans, including many who keep their Beatles passion in the closet.
"It's not easy being a teenage Beatles fan these days," said author Zane Lalani. "Many teenage Beatles fans encounter resistance and ridicule from their friends when they express their passion for former Beatles John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr."
To avoid ridicule, Lalani found that some teen fans turn to Internet message boards, chat rooms and fan web sites to share their enthusiasm with fellow Beatles fans around the world. Teens get advice from other fans on how to deal with the resistance and even convert their friends into becoming Beatles fans. "Most of the time it's as simple as getting their friends to listen to a sampling from the Beatles' vast repertoire of music without revealing the artists" said Lalani. "Inevitably, a song or two grabs their interest and another new fan is born."
Lalani believes that a lack of knowledge about the Beatles plays a big part in some teens failing to appreciate the contribution the Beatles have made to popular music and pop culture. When Lalani's pre-teen daughter took an interest in the Beatles, he unsuccessfully searched for a book on the Beatles suitable for her age group.
"Although there is a vast number of books available on the Beatles, I found that most were written for a mature audience and not appropriate for young readers," said Lalani. "So, I set out to research and write about the Beatles with my daughter and her contemporaries in mind." The result is a fast-paced, easy-to-read book designed for the shorter attention span of young adolescents, with material suitable for pre-teens and teens alike.
"Teenagers Guide to the Beatles" probes many of the controversies, myths, and mysteries surrounding one of the most popular and influential music groups in history, and highlights the hot issues of particular interest to pre-teen and teenage readers. Parents, librarians, teachers, and other adults will feel comfortable that the book is both fun and appropriate for young fans.
Zane Lalani, a lifelong Beatles fan, was only five when the Beatles hit the big time, but their influence on his life was immediate. From their music to their hairstyles to clothing and movies, Lalani followed every move closely.
Book information:
"Teenagers Guide to the Beatles"
By Zane Lalani
$24.95 AverStream Press
ISBN: 0965874079
Hardcover 216 pages
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Книги, ожидающиеся к выходу до конца этого года
"John Lennon: The New York Years" by Bob Gruen (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Longtime personal photographer recounts Lennon's years as a solo artist. October.
"Remembering John Lennon: 25 Years Later" from Life magazine. A pictorial. October.
"John Lennon: In His Own Words" by Ken Lawrence (Andrews McMeel). Quotations compiled by celebrity biographer. November.
"Memories of John Lennon" introduced and edited by Yoko Ono (HarperCollins). A collection of 73 reminiscences written by friends and admirers. December.
For readers who prefer the Fab Four collectively, Lewis Lapham offers "With The Beatles" (Melville House) in October, his account of living with the group in an Indian ashram in the late '60s. And in November comes nearly 1,000 pages of "The Beatles: The Biography" by Bob Spitz (Little, Brown).
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| Были на презентации книги "John Lennon: The New York Years" by Bob Gruen - отличная книга, однако вчера я сравнил ее с другой книгой Боба - Bob Gruen Works 1990 года - поразительные отличия, лучше бы он собрал все фотографии и сдалал большой фотоальбом. |
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Еще одна фото-биографическа книга о Ленноне - John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (издательство Viking, $24.99, от 12 лет и старше) более 200 страниц, автор Elizabeth Partridge, финалист премии National Book Award за аналогичную книгу, посвященную Woody Guthrie.
Writer takes unflinching look at life of Beatle Lennon
Thursday, October 13, 2005
NANCY GILSON
Do teens care about a rock ’n’ roller who would have turned 65 earlier this month and who died 25 years ago come December? I suspect they do, if he’s John Lennon. John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth (Viking, $24.99, age 12 and older), a 200-plus page photographic biography of the brainy Beatle, has been published by Elizabeth Partridge, a National Book Award finalist for her similar treatment of Woody Guthrie.
Partridge was 13 when the Beatles stormed America; one suspects that John was her favorite.
In this warts-and-all bio, she follows his childhood and early years through the frenzy of Beatlemania, his obsessive relationship with Yoko Ono and his assassination at the hands of Mark David Chapman.
She includes abbreviated biographies of the other Beatles as well as Ono; Pete Best, the drummer ousted in favor of Ringo Starr; Brian Epstein, the brilliant manager who died at 32 of a drug overdose; Cynthia Lennon, John’s first wife; and Lennon’s mother, Julia, as well as the aunt, Mimi, who raised him.
Lennon emerges as a bright, creative and irascible boy who stole cigarettes, doodled cartoons and poetry, idolized Elvis, greased back his hair and wore tight drainpipe trousers.
The formation of the band that would become the Beatles is one of the most fascinating sections of the book. From the start, John and Paul maintained a competitive, electric relationship that opened the creative floodgates for both of them.
How many youngsters then or now know that the Beatles took their name from one of John’s favorite movies, Marlon Brando’s The Wild One? The film’s Beetles (spelled like the insects) were a gang of biker molls: "We were actually named after girls," Paul pointed out.
Partridge avoids the sort of sanitization to which the band was subjected upon its first tour of the United States.
While she didn’t have contact with Starr or McCartney, the two remaining Beatles, she extensively quotes Lennon family members, early interviews, his writings and more; and she writes unflinchingly about his involvement with drugs, alcohol and sex.
Chapters describing his relationship and marriage with Ono are particularly strange and volatile, perhaps most explicitly revealing the sort of restlessness and insecurity that seemed to accompany Lennon’s songwriting genius.
More than 150 photographs, several of them published for the first time, capture Lennon as a toddler and on through several taken just months before his death.
Throughout, Partridge’s biography is edgy, much like her subject. Lennon seemed the most problematic and undefinable of the Beatles, the one who could produce evocative and far-flung songs such as Revolution, Come Together, Imagine and Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy).
"John and his music," Partridge rightly concludes, "are still charismatic, mysterious, and contradictory."
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Отрывок из статьи, которая выйдет в журнале Тайм 7 ноября о книге Боба Шпица (Little, Brown; 983 стр.)
По мнению автора, Битлз, за исключеним Ринго были не такими уж приятными ребятами. Леннон подкалывал еврейское происхождение и гомосексуальные наклонности Эпстайна, вместо "Baby, you're a rich man too," спев "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew." (Бейби ты богатый гомик еврей).
Давая много подробностей из жизни битлов и выдвигая мало теорий, автор не только занят поливкой их грязью, но и отдает должное их гениальной работе в студии.
Mean Mr. Lennon
Do you want to know a secret? The Beatles weren't nice guys, says a biography. Ringo, you're excused
By LEV GROSSMAN
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Posted Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005
The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein was gay, wealthy and chronically insecure. That may be why, while recording Magical Mystery Tour in 1967, John Lennon deliberately mangled a couple of choruses. According to Bob Spitz's colossal quadruple biography The Beatles (Little, Brown; 983 pages), instead of singing, "Baby, you're a rich man too," Lennon sang, "Baby, you're a rich fag Jew."
That kind of gratuitous cruelty isn't all that uncommon in The Beatles. The Fab Four hated the silly, lovable mop-top image they created, and on that score alone they would probably love Spitz's book. He marshals a staggering mass of research in support of the conclusion, broadly speaking, that Lennon was a drug-addled, attention-hungry rageoholic who picked fights and cheated on his wife; Paul McCartney was a smarmy, manipulative charmer; and George Harrison was dour and sour. Before you lose faith entirely, it turns out Ringo really was just a lovable goofball.
The early chapters of The Beatles are irresistible; they have the hypnotic effect of a film clip run backward, the separate pieces of a single whole coming together from the hard-luck streets of Liverpool. All four Beatles were hard cases of various kinds, but Ringo takes the prize. Poor, sickly and essentially fatherless, he took up drumming as therapy while he was hospitalized for tuberculosis, pounding on his bedside cabinet using two cotton bobbins for drumsticks.
It's a miracle that these four geniuses found one another, and it's a miracle they didn't then kill each other. But The Beatles isn't all dirt. Spitz brings readers inside the studio, where the Beatles, none of whom could read music, generated a staggering catalog of innovations, including the first use of feedback. He also pries open the songwriting dyad of McCartney and Lennon, who couldn't seem to stop writing perfect pop songs even when they couldn't stand each other. Anything was raw material: a cornflakes jingle (Good Morning, Good Morning), a snippet of Shakespeare on the radio (I Am the Walrus), the stoned ramblings of Peter Fonda (She Said She Said).
Spitz isn't much for big theories, but that's O.K. The details are what's new and interesting anyway. Similarly, the beginning of the book is more interesting than its end, which is pretty much the Yokotastrophe you'd expect. When John was 5, his mom and dad separated. His father sat him down and made him choose which parent he would live with. At first he chose his father, but after his mother left, the desperate little boy went running up the street after her. That poignant image hints at the ineffable, aching heart of Lennon's creativity, and his cruelty too. You get the feeling John never really stopped running.
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Еще о книге Шпица - несмотря на её почти 1000-страничный объём, по словам автора, это лишь треть переданных в издательство страниц - остальное урезали, но и при этом она гораздо больше, чем новые биографии Мао-цзедуна и Авраама Линкольна!
Объём книги обусловлен также подробностью описываемого - например день, когда Ринго "украли" из его прежнего ансамбля, чтобы он присоединился к Битлз.
Глубина исследования впечатляет - отмотав века назад к работорговле с Америкой и торговлей с Вест-индийским товаром через Ливерпуль, автор прослеживает появление в Ливерпуле XIX века John O'Leannain и James McCartney II - ирландских беженцев т.н. "картофельного" голода 40-х годов.
Автор зарегистрировал сайт книги по адресу: thebeatles.bobspitz.com, но он еще не активный (?)
The Beatles: Chapter & verse
Lengthy tome treats lives of the Fab Four as serious musical history.
By Janet Maslin
The New York Times
Posted October 30 2005
The Beatles: The Biography. Bob Spitz. Little, Brown. $29.95. 983 pp.
Bob Spitz says that his book about the Beatles is only one-third as long as the manuscript that he submitted to Little, Brown. Even so, it spans nearly 1,000 pages and is longer than major new biographies of Mao Zedong and Abraham Lincoln. Why?
Is it major news? A press release citing the book's big revelations includes "a full account of the day Ringo was stolen away from his previous band to join the Beatles." Keyhole-peeping? While the musical details will be new to some, many a Beatlemaniac already knows that it took three pianos and 10 hands to hit the walloping E chord at the end of A Day in the Life.
Here's the new angle: Spitz means to outdo these conventional tactics by elevating the Beatles' story to the realm of serious history. Imagine John Adams with music and marijuana. The Beatles is written for the reader who seeks deep, time-consuming immersion in the past and can look beyond traditionally lofty subjects to find it. Like Mark Stevens' and Annalyn Swan's recent biography of Willem de Kooning, it means to meld the forces of personality, culture and art into a broad and emblematic story.
At first this is worrisome. Yeah, yeah, yeah: Spitz goes back centuries to link the slave trade with American and West Indian exports shipped back to Liverpool. He locates John O'Leannain and James McCartney II as Irish refugees from the potato famine of the 1840s. He embroiders the atmosphere of his subjects' early years, imagining how young John Lennon (as the family name evolved) was awakened by "a clatter of hoofbeats as an old dray horse made milk deliveries along the rutted road."
But the built-in momentum of the material quickly takes over. With sweep already built into its story and the cumulative effects of the author's levelheaded, anecdotal approach, the book emerges as a consolidating and newly illuminating work. For the right reader, that combination is irresistible.
Much of this information can be found in other accounts. There are nearly 500 Beatle books floating around. But Spitz means to be authoritative, to cut through the fictions and calumnies of earlier versions, and to put together a broad, incisive overview. Among the areas in which he succeeds startlingly well is the specifics of songwriting, performance and studio work that made the Beatles worth such scrutiny.
The Beatles amplifies and corrects some of what is known about the band's formative years. It shapes a particularly vivid picture of the young, surly John Lennon, with a particularly revisionist and haunting portrait of his mother. It also captures the exhilarating freshness of young English musicians ready to try any crazy thing with no clue about how far they might go. "It had never occurred to the Beatles that they might have fans," Spitz writes. And he transports the reader to the time when that could be true.
Like Martin Scorsese's recent documentary about the young, meteoric Bob Dylan, this book powerfully evokes both the excitement and the price of such a sudden rise. This book is with the Beatles as they hit upon a winning, hair-shaking performance style and as they watch the world go berserk over it. When the exhilaration begins to sour, it captures the frightening fishbowl sensation of their being imprisoned by fans' hysteria and critical acclaim.
Spitz contends that the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" days were more remarkable for innovative recording tactics than for songwriting depth. He makes a fascinating case by describing the step-by-step construction of some of the best-known recordings in existence. George Martin, the Beatles' producer, is one of many figures who were close to them and wrote about his experience in detail. But Spitz is able to incorporate these and other memoirs into a bigger picture. By and large, it's a captivating picture that hasn't been seen before.
The Beatles also illuminates the way in which the collaboration came apart. Spitz replaces rumor-mongering and finger-pointing with a clear understanding of how the slights and misunderstandings accumulated.
"He could charm the queen's profile off a shiny shilling," one associate snipes about Paul McCartney, whose quiet efforts to buy shares in the Beatles' publishing company infuriated Lennon. The book also fathoms the union of Lennon with Yoko Ono and illustrates, with unusual acuity, how and why he angrily outgrew his Beatle role.
Length notwithstanding, "The Beatles" does not deign to describe certain things. It essentially ends with the group's breakup. It does not invade privacy by recounting the details of Lennon's death or George Harrison's. Time and again, it chooses perception over presumption in ways that set it off from the pack of Beatle stories. There is one exception: The author has had the effrontery to register thebeatles.bobspitz.com as a Web site, although it is not yet active. Here is one more bit of evidence that those fascinated by the Beatles have made the Beatles part of their lives.
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А вот нелестный отзыв о книге Шпица - ошибок так много, что можно устраивать соревнование битломанов, кто больше их найдет - соеревнование уже началось:
New Beatles bio is riddled with errors
Review - The Beatles: The Biography by Bob Spitz
Time Warner Book Group, 2005
983 pages; $29.95
by Trina Yannicos and Shelley Germeaux,
Daytrippin' Editor-in-Chief and Daytrippin' West Coast Correspondent
thanks to Daytrippin' Magazine
Here's an idea for a new Beatles trivia game--take the new biography, The Beatles, by Bob Spitz, and try to see how many factual errors you can find throughout the book. A group of Beatle fans have already started the game and as you can see below, our list is quite extensive.
It's obvious that there was a gross lack of regard for editing and checking source material in the compilation of this book. As we began to notice glaring errors with some shock, we then began hearing from others, most notably Mark Naboshek who sent us quite a list, which we have included. Mark is a well-known Beatles collector and writer for Beatlology Magazine with a tremendous knowledge of Beatles history. He has also fact-checked Elizabeth Partridge's new book "John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth" as well as "Lennon Legend" by Jim Henke, no doubt helping them achieve the status they deserve, as well-researched books.
Mark, in his email to us, expresses the dilemma any Beatles fan would feel after just looking at the errors in the photo captions alone: "When the photo captions in a book are this grossly incorrect, it makes me wonder how much of the book's text is incorrect….An elementary knowledge of the band, a little research, would have taken him (Spitz) far. If I found several errors in one photo section, I shudder to think how many errors the text will have. The bookmark (I saw in the book) stated, "This is the book you've been waiting for!" Thanks, but I think I'll wait for Mark Lewisohn's three-volume Beatles bio. Now THAT'S something worth waiting for!"
Another friend who picked up on many of the text errors right off the bat, commented that these are the easy ones; anyone could have spotted them. He said, "I don't want to miss the forest for the trees, but at this point in Beatles scholarship, there's really no excuse for some of these errors. I'll send a complete list when I'm done. I have a feeling it's going to be rather long."
A comment from a music forum echoes these sentiments. After saying "quite a few errors and plain wrong information", adds, "Nothing new here, no tremendous insight." It continues, "I had a couple of laughs at some of the mis-heard interview transcriptions…". He refers to Spitz talking about the Beatles eating 'chick butties' and Bob indicates in the book that he thinks these are "chicken sandwiches". This amused reader ends with, "I'm a born and bred Liverpudlian and we never ate such a thing as chick butties. CHIP butties, yes…."
Some errors in Beatle books can be forgiven, like mistakes due to memory loss by the people who were actually there. But when a new mega- biography on The Beatles comes out that claims to offer new, inside information to The Beatles story, you bet it's going to get examined. Bob Spitz has made a purposeful effort at consulting many different published sources to write a Beatles history. So he should have gotten it right.
Regarding Terry Ott's commentary on "Beatle Bits" on the Abbey Road site on October 23, it seems Ott must have gone to the same writing school as Bob Spitz. Instead of generating an educated opinion on the subject of whether Beatle "experts" have become too picky or not, he spews insults at those who might care if a book is accurate or not, citing the uproar over Bob Spitz's errors.
In his eyes, people like us are "dopey get-a-lifers" who "wank about mundane points of view". We are now "Beatle fetish freaks" who are "dissing any author who dares to make a mistake" and now have nothing to do but "post snotty comments." I guess in his eyes it's OK to do a sloppy job without checking source material, and forget that the work should be fact checked by several experts prior to pressing "print" for the last time and having it bound. Even self-published books with fewer resources have retained a higher standard of accuracy-- and astonishingly this book is published by Time Warner!
The list of errors follows:
Please remember these are at "first glance" since these errors were found within minutes of picking up the book and thumbing through it. It is in no way meant to be all-inclusive. We believe that if we have found this many errors already, there must be pages more. But as we see it, you the fans should have this information as we are getting it, as soon as possible.
Photo captions:
1. Numerous photos from their fall 1960 visit to Hamburg were captioned as being taken at the Star Club. Interesting...since the Star Club didn't open until 1962. We all know that on their first trip to Hamburg in 1960, they played the Indra and Kaiserkeller.
2. Photos taken in Hamburg in 1961 were ALSO captioned as shots from the Star Club when, in fact, they were taken at the Top Ten Club. Again, the Star Club didn't open until 1962.
3. Even Astrid's famous "Hugo Haas" fairground photo taken in Hamburg in 1960 was captioned as being taken after they played a gig at the Star Club! Again, no cigar!
4. There's a photo showing Gerry Marsden, George's friend Arthur Kelly, George and Pattie. It's captioned as having been taken at Paul's 21st birthday party (which would have been in June 1963). Hmmm. George and Pattie didn't meet until the spring of 1964 when "A Hard Day's Night" was being filmed.
5. Page 6 of photos the caption reads: "George with Pattie Boyd, soon after they met on the set of Help!" Wrong: refer to #4 above
6. One of Albert Marrion's famous leather suit photos from December 1961 was labeled as The Beatles in 1962. Nope.
7. There's a photo identified as a shot of The Beatles playing one of their final gigs at the Cavern in 1963. It's clearly NOT taken at the Cavern, making this a gross faux paux!
8. Page 16 of photos: "The Beatles last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in August 1965" is wrong. The photo is from their Feb. 1964 appearance.
9. Page 5 of photos: "In a rare display of fatherhood, John shows off Julian, age two, to Uncle Paul and Uncle Ringo". That photo is from the Central Park, NYC photo shoot in Feb. 1964, where John was holding someone else's daughter. Julian, John's ten month old son was in Liverpool at his aunt's house. (For the record, the little girl's name was Debbie Fyall and her father was a London Daily Express reporter following the Beatles. Of course, Bob could have found that out with simple research. There was a 40th anniversary story about that little girl and it can be seen at http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/158154p-138835c.html)
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10. p 419: Twist and Shout was the "first EP ever to enter the top 10."
How's that? What about the 13 EPs Cliff Richard had in the top 10, the 6 by The Shadows, 2 by Adam Faith and 1 by Peter Sellers, to name just a few, all prior to August 1963, when Twist and Shout entered the top 10.
11. p587: Run For Your Life was "one of the last songs recorded for the album."
It was actually the very first.
12. p588: Rubber Soul was to have "an unheard of 14 cuts."
All their UK albums thus far had 14 cuts, except A Hard Day's Night, with 13.
13. p591: George Martin was "not a pianist by training."
Piano was a required instrument of all students at Guildhall, easily checkable in All You Need Is Ears, which Spitz cites repeatedly.
14. p604: "layers of overdubs on take 5 of Got To Get You Into My Life."
This is on Anthology 2, just two tracks of the four were used, no tape reductions.
15. p605: backward sounds on Taxman and She Said She Said.
Not exactly sure what Ringo is doing on She Said; it sounds backward at certain points, but there's no evidence to support that anything was backward on that song, and the way it was recorded left no room for backward additions. Ditto Taxman.
16. p612: George Martin recorded Spike Jones!
I guess he's older than we thought.
Of course we must acknowledge that many Beatle books in the past have been known to contain a factual error or two. As the author himself, Bob Spitz, writes:
"One of the drawbacks in preparing a definitive biography of the Beatles is the stunning lack of reliable source material. Most of the nearly 500 volumes that make up their canon lack proper citations, and even in those remarkable cases where sources are offered, the accuracy remains suspect . . . For better or worse, misinformation has always been a key element of the Beatles' legend."
But who would've thought he was describing his own book?
There may be some good aspects of this book as reported by the New York Times' Janet Maslin (one only wishes Allan Kozinn was the one to review the book). However, in her one-sided review, she failed to mention that the book contains inaccuracies.
Something else must be noted. Outside of a blatant disregard for accuracy, we are appalled by Mr. Spitz's lack of professionalism when confronted with our concerns over his book. Daytrippin's editor, Trina Yannicos, sent a letter to him, outlining just a few of the errors in his book. This was Bob Spitz's response, quoted word for word: "You need an enema. Really! Do something useful with your life."
Did his publicist advise him that a response like this would be good promotion for his book?
The bottom line is this: We, as Beatle fans and journalists, feel a responsibility for getting the history of the Beatles correct, for this generation as well as the ones to come. We've seen the horrors that myth and error can cause for historical legends. With so many resources available to us now, the "truth is out there", so let's not foul it up.
We think we'll take Bob Spitz's advice, and do something useful--we won't be wasting time reading his book, looking for more inaccuracies. We've got better things to do.
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"Beatles Worldwide II: An Anthology of Original Singles & EP-Releases" - вторая книга-справочник, по сравнению с 1-й,
"Beatles Worldwide I", посвященной альбомам Битлз, концентрируется на сорокапятках и EP, вышедших в разных странах мира.
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Компания Boxigami Books выпускает в 2006 г. иллюстрированную книгу Beatles Art: Fantastic New Artwork of the Fab Four, содержащую репродукции художественных объектов, вдохновленных великой четверкой.
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В июне с.г. планируется к выходу книга-биография "The Sound Of The Beatles", которую написал Norman Hurricane Smith, звукоинженер EMI проработавший с Битлз над всеми их работами в студии, начиная с их прослушивания и до Rubber Soul, включая все синглы и альбомы.
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| 2tempera: знаю, выпущенна несколько лет назад. Часто продается в московских магазинах. Очень много редких фотографий, есть еще Lennon Unseen Archives, многие фотографии в этих книгах повторяются. |
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В своей новой книге, озаглавленной McCartney, автор Christopher Sanford утверждает, что в 1966 г. у Пола был "роман" с Йоко Оно до начала её отношений с Ленноном, ссылаясь на анонимного свидетеля, на глазах которого всё это происходило в доме Пола в Лондоне. Пол обнимал и тискал Йоко, спускаясь из верхних комнат, куда они ранее уединились. Сам Пол и ранее говорил, что Йоко сначала на него обратила свое внимание и он перенаправил её на Джона.
Книга McCartney стоит около 25 долл. и концентрируется больше на личной жизни Пола.
A new book on Paul McCartney claims that he had an affair with Yoko Ono prior to her relationship with John Lennon. In his new book, titled McCartney, author Christopher Sanford uncovered a first-hand source who alleges that in 1966 the pair were romantically linked. Sanford's unnamed source places himself at McCartneys London townhouse throughout the duration of a social call by Ono.
Sanford told us that judging from Macca's taste in women alone, it's not too far fetched to believe that the affair took place: "He was known for his attraction to women who were not necessarily, shall we say, traditionally good looking. And we have the source I mentioned, who says that (Paul and Yoko) displayed notable affection for each other. They went up the stairs, and he was seen hugging and squeezing her as she left later that afternoon."
Macca has long stated that he was the first member of the Beatles that Ono approached. Ono went to McCartney's home asking for a set of lyrics to be used as part of a birthday exhibit for avant garde musician John Cage. McCartney has maintained in many interviews that it was he who pointed Ono in Lennon's direction.
Lennon and Ono met on November 9th, 1966. Although they had gone on record as stating that their physical relationship began in May 1968, a recent memoir by Beatles insider Tony Bramwell claimed that they were romantically linked as early as the spring of 1967.
The new book, which sells for about $25, focuses on Macca's personal life -- including his various pre-marital affairs, alleged illegitimate children, and open drug use. The book also sheds an unpleasant light on Macca's treatment of his father Jim's second wife and step-daughter, with whom McCartney severed all financial ties only weeks after his father's death in 1976. |
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Большой обзор книги "Let The Good Times Roll" Хорста Фасшера (Horst Fascher) , в начале 60-х бывшего менеджером Стар Клаба, который пригласил Битлз (и не только их - по его словам из звёзд того времени у него не выступал только Элвис) в Гамбург, а также описание бурной жизни Хорста.
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The Beatles, Football and Me
by Hunter Davies
Headline Review #163;18.99, pp352
Hunter Davies writes in the foreword to this memoir that 'the very best' he hopes to achieve is to be 'vaguely interesting' and 'passably amusing'. The very best? I wonder how happy he would be to see those words quoted on the cover. It is only as you read further into the book that you realise that vague interest and passable amusement are, indeed, all that The Beatles, Football and Me could possibly aspire to, so plodding and savourless is his style.
For the material of this memoir is very promising, Davies being a working-class, footie-mad Carlisle boy who pulled himself up by the bootstraps, the first of his family to get a university education, progressing rapidly through provincial journalism before landing up in Fleet Street just as the Sixties were about to start swinging. Bliss, surely, was it in that dawn to be alive, yet Davies's remarkable instinct for the untelling anecdote and the commonplace observation keeps blocking the view.
Consider young Hunter's arrival in London, where he eventually finds digs in a street near Kilburn High Road. The flat, we learn, 'was nicely furnished, with a light cream fitted carpet, quite smart, so it seemed to me. It was the cream carpet, fitted throughout, that did it'. I'm not sure that carpet needed mentioning once, let alone twice. But irrelevant detail is pretty much this book's stock in trade, since Davies has no idea what he should leave out.
I wonder how his wife, writer Margaret Forster, felt about his mulling over the memory of her being fitted with a Dutch cap, for instance. In Sardinia on honeymoon, he recalls having a boil on his backside lanced, while in the background Margaret lies in a faint. The doctor eventually brings her round, saying: 'Un peu de courage, madame.' Quite a funny story, which he then deflates with a paragraph wondering why the doctor who dealt with him spoke French in an Italian-speaking country. He later follows this holiday trauma with the time a donkey stepped on his daughter's foot - nothing broken, 'just badly cut and bruised, but she was given a tetanus injection, just in case'. Good grief!
The book betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what a memoir should be. Davies recalls dates, names, holidays, how much he got paid for this article or that book, but it's all just dead on the page. A good memoir is not about how much you recall - it's about how you make it come alive. Davies seems almost determined not to raise his reader's pulse rate: 'It was quite an interesting year, 1960,' begins one chapter, the Pooterish tone a guarantee that nothing he will say about it even approaches 'interesting'.
And yet his career really did go places: as a star writer on the Sunday Times, he was able to set up interviews with just about anyone he pleased. In 1969, he goes to Montreux to interview Noel Coward and, while out there, he wangles an audience with Vladimir Nabokov, a resident in the same hotel. He promises the latter that their talk will be off the record, so no joy there. Of the Coward interview he writes: 'It was a very pleasant dinner. Noel performed well, telling me lots of amusing theatrical stories, and not all of them were in the cuttings.' But the only one he chooses to record is that Coward liked to watch hospital operations.
His greatest coup was to secure an agreement with the Beatles to write their official biography, which speaks well of his enterprise. However, when you see how many other biographies he's churned out (an appendix on 'Books published' runs to four pages), the achievement feels less impressive. The Eddie Stobart Story, Dwight Yorke and Joe Kinnear: Still Crazy are the sort of titles that indicate a writer more or less deaf to the words 'quality control'.
I suspect Davies is rather proud of his prodigious output, and his latest role as Wayne Rooney's biographer should keep him in the public eye. Whatever his shortcomings - and this memoir has got the lot - the one thing we can't fault is his industry.
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Book review: The Gospel According to the Beatles
Turner uses Lennon’s 'more popular than Jesus' comment as the beginning of his study, and describes it as the turning point for the band. The quote brought widespread attention and new scrutiny to the band.
Friday, September 08, 2006
by Andrew Careaga
When John Lennon proclaimed that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" during a 1966 interview with London journalist Maureen Cleave, it didn't cause much of a stir in England. But once word of the interview spread across the Atlantic and reached a radio station in the Bible Belt city of Birmingham, Alabama, the comment – and the media feeding frenzy that ensued – spurred millions, young and old, fans and non-fans, to start looking at the Fab Four in a new light. Soon, the lads from Liverpool were more than just fun-loving mop tops. They were spiritual guides for a generation of young people looking for answers from outside the mainstream world and its institutions
Forty years later, the Beatles are again the subject of a spiritual examination. This one comes in the form of a new book, The Gospel According to the Beatles (Westminster John Knox Press, $19.95). Written by veteran British rock journalist Steve Turner (A Man Called Cash, A Hard Day’s Write), the book addresses the spiritual backgrounds of John, Paul, George and Ringo, and analyzes their music in a religious context. Drawing on a broad array of resources – various books, newspaper and magazine articles, unpublished notes and letters – as well as 80 interviews the author conducted himself, Turner’s book is a comprehensive look at the band that helped to shape the spiritual and cultural outlook of an entire generation.
Turner uses Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” comment as the beginning of his study, and describes it as the turning point for the band. The quote brought widespread attention and new scrutiny to the band. They were no longer a mere pop sensation, but four evangelists to Baby Boomers searching for meaning through music, popular culture and drugs.
The Beatles probably did more than any other cultural figure at the time to introduce Eastern religious practices such as transcendental meditation, Hinduism, Buddhism and the Hare Krishna movement to teenagers in the West. Through their actions, interviews and music, they also promoted the use of mind-expanding drugs and advocated a general sense of consciousness expansion to young people. After Paul McCartney told the press that he and other band members had used LSD – ironically, he was the last Beatle to try the hallucinogen and only did so after yielding to pressure – the band, especially George Harrison, began to advocate TM and other Eastern religious practices as ways to free one’s mind.
While the messages of their music and lifestyle promoted a sense of liberty among youth, they also led to tragedy. The Beatles became messiah figures to millions of young people – and to deranged killers like Charles Manson – who thought the songs on The Beatles (the “White Album”) were messages to him to lead a revolution that was to begin with the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders – and Mark David Chapman, a former Beatles fan-turned-fundamentalist Christian who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980.
On the cover of Turner’s book, Lennon is shown in the forefront. He also takes center stage in the text of the book. The default leader of the group, Lennon also saw himself as a messiah figure, once proclaiming himself to be Christ during an acid trip and famously comparing himself to Jesus in “The Ballad of John and Yoko” (“Christ, you know it ain’t easy” and “the way things are going, they’re gonna crucify me” were among that song’s lyrics). As Turner points out, Lennon’s Anglican upbringing was the most formally religious of the four, but Lennon was also the most openly hostile to organized Christianity. (Harrison, who was raised Catholic, was a close second.) McCartney, brought up in a working-class Catholic family, was taught to be skeptical of religious figures and remained the most pragmatic of the lot, while Starr is described as a happy-go-lucky agnostic who was willing to dabble in Eastern religions but never took it as far as Lennon or Harrison.
The Beatles began as pragmatic existentialists who lived for the day but ended up preaching a religion that called on their listeners, in the words of “I’m Only Sleeping,” to “turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.”
Many of the concepts embodied in their later music – concepts like love (“All You Need Is Love”), peace (“Give Peace a Chance”), hope and transcendence – were secularized versions of Christian doctrine. As Turner points out, however, the Beatles’ “gospel” is incompatible with Christianity. The Beatles turned the notion of “God is love” inside out, advocating instead a teaching that “love is God.” As they once sang, “Love is all you need.” In Turner’s words: “There was no need for God to become incarnate and then die in order to bring salvation; they were saying that we could access the love directly. Love was a pathway to the divinity within us.”
In his introduction, Turner writes that he hopes to convince readers that “the search for a meaningful spirituality was an important part of the Beatles’ motivation.” In my view, Turner has achieved his goal through a well researched, richly detailed, and interesting, entertaining and informative work.
Andrew Careaga is a self-described freelance writer, PR flack, husband, youth minister, music and movie lover and punk rock star. You can read his musings on punk music and life here.
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После пятнадцатилетнего перерыва со дня последнего выпуска в печати книга - обзор последнего выступления Битлз 29 августа 1966 г. “Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles Last Concert.”, автор Eric Lefcowitz, и 60 фотографий Джима Маршалла.
Welcome to Beatleslast.com — the official website for the book “Tomorrow Never Knows: The Beatles Last Concert.”
Now back in print after 15 years, this is the definitive account of the Beatles concert in San Francisco on August 29, 1966. Written by Eric Lefcowitz, it features 60 of Marshall's celebrated photographs including images of the Beatles backstage and performing onstage for the last time.
“Extraordinary photographs.” —Radio and Records
“Fascinating overviews of the times, the culture, the media.” —Washington Post
“A dandy publication with marvelous and historic photos.” —San Francisco Examiner
You can purchase “Tomorrow Never Knows” exclusively on this website for $19.95 plus shipping. Order now and save five dollars off the retail price of $24.95.
This softcover 104-page edition (7-3/4" X 9-3/4") is available in a limited run
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Новая книга Ричи Атбергера - The Unreleased Beatles - Неизданные Битлз
New Book: The Unreleased Beatles
San Francisco--Music fans might think they've heard it all from the Beatles, the most popular band ever. But even hardcore Beatles fanatics will learn about a treasure trove of undiscovered material in Backbeat Books' newly published The Unreleased Beatles: Music & Film.
The staggering wealth of unreleased material encompasses the Beatles' entire career, from a recording of the Quarrymen on July 6, 1957 (also known as "the day John met Paul"), right up to outtakes from the final sessions of Let It Be in 1970.
It's all here: unreleased studio outtakes, BBC radio recordings from 1962-1965, live concert performances, home demo recordings, fan club Christmas recordings, other informal recordings done outside of EMI studios, and even a wrap-up of Beatles compositions that were never recorded.
The visual treasures uncovered by author Richie Unterberger are just as tantalizing: Super-8 film of an early, unknown performance; 1962 footage from the Cavern Club; four songs from a 1963 Swedish TV show; never-broadcast rehearsal footage from The Ed Sullivan Show; UK, French, German, Japanese, and Australian television specials; unseen film from the 1965 Shea Stadium concert; promo films; footage of the band's trip to India; and more.
The book includes chronological entries for all of the Beatles' unreleased recordings of note, as well as all of the unreleased video footage from 1961-1970 and outtakes from 1990s interviews filmed for Anthology. There's also a general overview of Beatles bootlegs, Beatles songs recorded by other artists in the '60s, and more than 100 photos of documenting the full range of unreleased material.
Richie Unterberger is the author of Backbeat's Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll; Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution; and Eight Miles High. He has written numerous CD reissue liner notes, and he co-edited the All Music Guide to Rock.
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| The Unreleased Beatles - возможно может быть довольно любопытной. Наверное, буду брать. |
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Издательство У-Фактория выпустила книгу
«Память о Джоне»
Йоко Оно, 2007
В своей трогательной, очень деликатной книге вдова музыканта собрала воспоминания поклонников, друзей и коллег Джона Леннона – включая выдающихся деятелей современной культуры – о, пожалуй, самом смелом и талантливом демиурге современной музыки. Кому-то Джон Леннон помог сделать первый шаг в музыкальной карьере, с кем-то просто общался всю жизнь, несмотря на свой «звездный статус». И, наконец, Йоко Оно дарит нам много ранее неопубликованных фотографий, в том числе полную фотосессию Анни Лейбовиц «Джон и Йоко» 1969 года. «…Первая встреча в Джоном Ленноном породила во мне чувство унижения – да-да, это занятно. Но ведь «Битлз» тогда были королями – на дворе стоял 1963 год, мы еще не записали ни одной пластинки и были никому не известны». Это признание Мика Джаггера лишь одно из открытий, которое сделает, перелистывая книгу, даже знаток «Битлз».
http://www.ufactory.ru/book/370/
Книга уже продается в Олимпийском. Цена 200 рублей.
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| К сожалению не знаю, мне ее родители покупали. |
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Пытался найти и заказать «Память о Джоне»
через инет, но нигде не нашел.
Только что получил по почте "Высоко в облаках"-оформление хорошее, содержание пока не оценил-будет подарок от Санты для моей мелкой. |
"Всё может быть лучше, но всё может быть и хуже, следовательно всё хорошо" :) |
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Изначально опубликовано : major
Пытался найти и заказать «Память о Джоне»
через инет, но нигде не нашел.
Только что получил по почте "Высоко в облаках"-оформление хорошее, содержание пока не оценил-будет подарок от Санты для моей мелкой.
Книга уже появилась в Московских магазинах
http://www.mdk-arbat.ru/bookcard_all4.aspx?Book_id=547093&Qt=20&UID=547093&Avt=Оно%20Й.&Ttl=Оно%20Память%20о%20Джоне
Так что заказать по почте думаю уже можно без проблем. |
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