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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 - Let It Be - New Stereo Mix - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $32.24, €29.74 (New Item) (arrived 26-Jul-2024 10:48)on July 26, 2024 at 11:57 am
THE BEATLES Let It Be - New Stereo Mix (2021 UK/EU New Stereo Mix 12-track 180-gram vinyl LP, newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. Glossy single pocket picture sleeve replicating the original artwork, green Apple logo on back cover. The sleeve shows a little edge creasing and the vinyl is in Near Mint condition) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - Revolver - 2nd - Sample Stickered - UK - vinyl LP - £495.00, $638.55, €589.05 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jul-2024 16:26)on July 26, 2024 at 11:57 am
THE BEATLES Revolver (Rare 1968 UK stereo issue of the 1966 14-track LP, with a 'Factory Sample' sticker on the Side 1 label, housed in a front laminated flipback picture sleeve with small block 'stereo' text in the top right corner of the sleeve. As this was a transitional copy, the sleeve features the 'Dr. Robert' spelling with 'Doctor Robert' on the label. One for the serious Beatles collector! PCS7009) See 'More Info' for further details.... #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album] - 2019 - DeAgostini - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £44.99, $58.04, €53.54 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jul-2024 09:30)on July 26, 2024 at 11:57 am
THE BEATLES The Beatles (2019 UK/EU 'Anniversary Edition' limited edition remastered stereo audiophile issue of the 1968 30-track double LP pressed on 180 gram Heayvweight Vinyl, re-released as part of the DeAgostini Vinyl Collection series, including the classic hits Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Housed in a glossy embossed white gatefold picture sleeve with double-sided lyric poster and four colour portraits. This copy remains in fantastic near as new condition) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - '4th Proof' - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £795.00, $1,025.55, €946.05 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jul-2024 15:37)on July 26, 2024 at 11:57 am
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Extremely Rare earliest variant of the 1967 UK first pressing 13-track MONO vinyl LP with 'Gramophone Co' & 'Sold In The UK' label credits, complete with intact sheet of cut-outs & psychedelic'flame' inner, this is the incredibly rare, highly coveted 'Fourth Proof' fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve edition with 'patents pending' credit on the back along with the all important 'fourth proof' text on the topflipback inside PMC7027)See 'more info' for further details on the condition of this exciting rarity!...
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - 1st - Complete - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £295.00, $380.55, €351.05 (New Item) (arrived 25-Jul-2024 15:41)on July 26, 2024 at 11:57 am
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967 UK first press 13-track mono vinyl LP on the black & yellow Parlophone label with 'The Gramophone Co Ltd' & 'Sold In The UK' text, complete with red 'flame' inner & intact sheet of cut-outs, fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve PMC7027) See 'More Info' for further information on the condition...
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