From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.
John Updike compared them to ‘the sun coming out on an Easter morning’. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them ‘little sissies’. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, ‘Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.’
One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.
From the bestselling author of Ma’am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.
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- The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album] - EMI - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £125.00, $160.00, €151.25 (New Item) (arrived 05-Mar-2025 10:38)on March 5, 2025 at 10:50 am
THE BEATLES The Beatles (Circa 1978 UK issue of the 1968 30-track stereo double LP with 'An EMI Recording' text on the labels, housed in an unnumbered, embossed & side-loading glossy gatefold sleeve complete with the fold-out/lyric poster & four portrait prints. The sleeve is Excellent with minor shelf wear [including some laminate peel on the spine and a tiny paper fracture in a top edge] & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with few signs of any play PCS7067-8) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - Please Please Me - 7th - UK - vinyl LP - £495.00, $633.60, €598.95 (New Item) (arrived 04-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 5, 2025 at 10:50 am
THE BEATLES Please Please Me (Rare 1965 UK seventh press of the 1963 UK 14-track stereo LP on the black & yellow Parlophone label with 'Gramophone Co' label credits & 'Sold In The UK' text & small solid 'stereo' logo on the front of the laminated flipback picture sleeve with 'Patents Pending' text on the lower back flipback. The sleeve is bright & shows minimal signs of age [tiniest crease to bottom right corner]. The vinyl is fantastic and looks almost unplayed, having retained its original shine. Complete with original EMI advert inner. A superb example of a sixty+ year old album! PCS3042)
- George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - UK - 2-CD album set - £39.99, $51.19, €48.39 (Back In Stock) (arrived 04-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 5, 2025 at 10:50 am
GEORGE HARRISON All Things Must Pass (2001 UK 28-track digitally remastered 2-CD album set [produced by George Harrison & Phil Spector] comprising the 9-track album [original released in 1970] plus Ten Bonus Recordings of which five arepreviously unreleased, complete with 20-page booklet with rare photos, lyrics and extensive sleeve notes written by George in a clamshell picture box) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour - Sealed - UK - DVD - £89.99, $115.19, €108.89 (New Item) (arrived 04-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 5, 2025 at 10:50 am
THE BEATLES Magical Mystery Tour (Sealed 2012 UK Deluxe Collector's Edition 2-disc [DVD / BLU-RAY] box set featuring the fully restored, long out-of-print, classic 1967 feature film with a remixed soundtrack [5.1 and stereo] and Bonus Material packed with unseen footage newly-filmed interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and other members of the film's cast and crew, as well as director's commentary audio recorded by McCartney! This edition comprises both DVD and BLU-RAYDISCS in a special 10" x 10" box complete with a 60-page book with background information, photographs and documentation from the production, and a faithful reproduction of the mono double 7" vinyl EP of the film's six new Beatles songs, originally issued in the UK to complement the film's 1967 release. This collector's set remains sealed in its stickered shrinkwrap)
- The Beatles - Please Please Me - Sealed - UK - CD album - £12.99, $16.63, €15.72 (New Item) (arrived 04-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 5, 2025 at 10:50 am
THE BEATLES Please Please Me (Sealed 2009 UK 14-track enhanced CD, digitally remastered by a dedicated engineering team at Abbey Road studios, the 1963 debut album released as a stereo version on compact disc for the first time. Includes a bonus 'Making Of' video using original footage from the Beatles' own archive plus other rare footage - the voice-over is entirely spoken by the Fabs themselves and George Martin. Comes housed in a fold-out pocket gatefold picture sleeve with booklet - sealed in the hype stickered shrinkwrap)
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