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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- John Lennon - Double Fantasy - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $14.64, €14.16 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 20, 2025 at 6:58 pm
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO Double Fantasy (1980 UK 14-track LP, including the singles [Just Like] Starting Over, Woman, Watching The Wheels & Beautiful Boy [Darling Boy], glossy picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve shows a little light edgewear whilst the vinyl remains in Excellent condition K99131)
- John Lennon - Double Fantasy - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $14.64, €14.16 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jan-2025 12:11)on January 20, 2025 at 6:58 pm
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO Double Fantasy (1980 UK 14-track LP, including the singles [Just Like] Starting Over, Woman, Watching The Wheels & Beautiful Boy [Darling Boy], glossy picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve shows a little light edgewear whilst the vinyl remains in Excellent condition K99131)
- The Beatles - Love - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £124.99, $152.49, €147.49 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 20, 2025 at 6:58 pm
THE BEATLES Love (Sealed 2007 UK/EU Limited Edition 27-track double LP pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl, containing a generous seventy-eight minutes of stereo music issued in conjunction with the extravagant Cirque Du Soleil at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas. Features classic Beatles tracks reworked from the original sixties session masters by George Martin & his son Giles, complete with a deluxe full size twenty-eight page booket, artwork inners & high quality gatefold picture sleeve. This collector's copy remains factory sealed in its hype stickered shrinkwrap. The vinyl is Mint & unplayed)
- The Beatles - 1 - One - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £50.00, $61.00, €59.00 (New Item) (arrived 18-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 20, 2025 at 6:58 pm
THE BEATLES 1 (2000 UK/EU 27-track double LP compilation pressed on Heavyweight Vinyl, featuring every #1 achieved by the band in the UK & US charts. Comes housed in a deluxe gatefold picture sleeve complete with four psychedelic art prints, alarge fold-out full-colour poster showing various original Beatles 7" picture sleeves from around the world & illustrated inners. The sleeve is Excellent with little shelf wear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with few signs of play)
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - 1st - Complete - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £495.00, $603.90, €584.10 (New Item) (arrived 19-Jan-2025 15:09)on January 20, 2025 at 6:58 pm
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967 UK first press 13-track MONO vinyl LP with 'Gramophone Co' & 'Sold In The UK' label credits, complete with intact sheet of cut-outs & 'flame' inner, fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve PMC7027) See 'more info' for further details on the condition of this rarity...
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