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 - Can't Buy Me Love - EX - UK - 7" picture disc - £12.00, $15.12, €14.16 (New Item) (arrived 26-May-2022 16:30)on May 27, 2022 at 1:32 am
THE BEATLES Can't Buy Me Love (1985 UK limited edition 20th Anniversary 7" Picture Disc single, also including You Can't Do That, clear PVC sleeve. The disc remains in excellent condition with some light paper hairlines to show play RP5114)
- Paul McCartney and Wings - Venus And Mars - Complete - UK - vinyl LP - £30.00, $37.80, €35.40 (New Item) (arrived 25-May-2022 11:42)on May 27, 2022 at 1:32 am
WINGS Venus And Mars (1975 UK 13-track vinyl LP including the singles Listen To What The Man Said, Letting Go & the title track. The gatefold picture sleeve has minimal wear and comes complete with the illustrated card inner, two fold-out black & white posters and two colour stickers [all looking unused] and the vinyl remains in barely played condition PCTC254)
- The Beatles - Help! - 1st - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £125.00, $157.50, €147.50 (New Item) (arrived 24-May-2022 15:53)on May 27, 2022 at 1:32 am
THE BEATLES Help! (1965 UK first press 14-track stereo vinyl LP, with 'Gramophone Co' & 'Sold In The UK' label credits & Garrod & Lofthouse front laminated flipback picture sleeve with outline 'stereo' logo & 'Patents Pending' text on the bottom flip PCS3071) See 'More Info' for further details...
- The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night - 2nd - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £150.00, $189.00, €177.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-May-2022 15:58)on May 27, 2022 at 1:32 am
THE BEATLES A Hard Day's Night (Rare 1965 UK seond pressing of the 1964 13-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 just a small amount of wear mostly to the edges and some light age yellowing. The labels have a few spindle marks and the vinyl remains very good with some light cosmetic surface scuffs & hairlines with no major deterioration in sound quality PCS3058)
- The Beatles - Revolver - 2nd - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £150.00, $189.00, €177.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-May-2022 16:27)on May 27, 2022 at 1:32 am
THE BEATLES Revolver (Rare 1968 UK issue of the 1966 14-track stereo vinyl LP, 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....
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