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 - Happy Xmas [War Is Over] - 4pr - UK - 7" vinyl - £8.00, $9.84, €9.44 (Back In Stock) (arrived 21-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 21, 2025 at 11:17 pm
JOHN & YOKO / THE PLASTIC ONO BAND Happy Xmas [War Is Over] (1971 UK 7" vinyl single with intact four prong centre, also including Yoko's Listen, The Snow Is Falling, Apple logo die-cut company sleeve R5970)
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - Wide Spine - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £295.00, $362.85, €348.10 (New Item) (arrived 21-Jan-2025 13:06)on January 21, 2025 at 11:17 pm
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967 UK first MONO pressing of the classic 13-track vinyl LP on the black & yellow Parlophone label, fully laminated internal flipback gatefold picture sleeve variant with WIDE SPINE and upside down spine print, complete with the red & white psychedelic inner & intact sheet of cut-outs PMC7027)See 'More Info' for further details
- The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever - 1st - Solid - P/S - EX - UK - 7" vinyl - £125.00, $153.75, €147.50 (Back In Stock) (arrived 20-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 21, 2025 at 11:17 pm
THE BEATLES Strawberry Fields Forever (1967 UK solid centre 7" vinyl single, with 'Gramophone Co' & 'Sold In The UK' label text, also including Penny Lane, complete with the rare flipback paper picture sleeve. The thin paper sleeve is in wonderful Excellent condition with only a little natural foxing due to the nature of the white sleeve, otherwise remains unsplit & un-torn. The vinyl is equally triumphant with just a couple of light spindle marks around the centre hole to indicate play. A very nice complete copy of this Fabs essential R5570)
- Paul McCartney and Wings - Wings Over America - Complete - VG - UK - 3-LP vinyl set - £15.00, $18.45, €17.70 (Back In Stock) (arrived 20-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 21, 2025 at 11:17 pm
WINGS Wings Over America (1976 UK live triple LP, featuring twenty eight tracks in total including renditions of both Wings & Beatles material, such as Jet, Lady Madonna, Blackbird, Yesterday & Band On The Run, complete with a great bonus double-sided fold-out poster, card picture inners & wide spined gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows moderate edgewear and foxing with splits to the inners, whilst the vinyl has just light signs of play - a great play copy PCSP720)
- The Beatles - Rubber Soul - 1st - Loud Cut - G&L - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £250.00, $307.50, €295.00 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jan-2025 18:00)on January 21, 2025 at 11:17 pm
THE BEATLES Rubber Soul (Rare 1965 UK first press 14-track mono vinyl LP on the black & yellow Parlophone label, with 'The Gramophone Co.' & 'Sold In The UK' text, G&L front laminated flipback picture sleeve with rounded ended flipbacks & 'Patents Pending' on the bottom flip. The matrices both end -1, indicating that this is the earliest & hard to find LOUD CUT variant PMC1267) **See 'More Info' for further details on condition** #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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