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 - Rubber Soul - Pathé - UK - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.50, €56.00 (New Item) (arrived 23-Sep-2020 11:38)on September 24, 2020 at 3:17 am
THE BEATLES Rubber Soul (Mid 70s UK issue of the 1965 14-track stereo LP, on the two EMI boxed logo label with 'EMI Records' & 'Made in France' perimeter print; this is a contract pressing done by Pathé Marconi in France while the pressing plant in Hayes, UK underwent refurbishment. Comes housed in the UK printed front laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve & vinyl are Excellent with few signs of wear & play PCS3075)
- John Lennon - Sometime In New York City - Dutch - 2-CD album set - £19.99, $24.99, €22.39 (Back In Stock) (arrived 22-Sep-2020 14:58)on September 24, 2020 at 3:17 am
JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND Sometime In New York City (1991 Dutch issues 16-track 2-CD set including 6 'live Jam' tracks; Cold Turkey, Don't Worry Kyoko, Well Baby Please Don't Go, Jamrag, Scumbag & Au, picture sleeve with a 16 page booklethoused in a faft double jewel case, all in near as new condition CDS7467828)
- George Harrison - Brainwashed - UK - CD album - £18.00, $22.50, €20.16 (New Item) (arrived 22-Sep-2020 13:39)on September 24, 2020 at 3:17 am
GEORGE HARRISON Brainwashed (2002 UK limited edition 12-track CD, digipak picture sleeve with sixteen page booklet housed in a scarce limited hype stickered outer slipcase with a promotional copy sticker over the barcode on the reverse indicating this copy was likely sent to radio stations in advance of release. Much of this album was readied by George himself before his untimely death and the remainder produced by Dhani Harrison & Jeff Lynne)
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - 2 Box - EMI - laminated - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €16.80 (New Item) (arrived 22-Sep-2020 14:24)on September 24, 2020 at 3:17 am
THE BEATLES Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Late 70s UK issue of the 1967 13-track stereo LP on the two boxed EMI logo label with 'EMI Records' perimeter text, fully laminated gatefold picture sleeve with intact cut-out sheet. The sleeve shows only a little minor wear to the laminate edges & the vinyl is Excellent with few signs of play PCS7027)
- George Harrison - Brainwashed - UK - CD album - £18.00, $22.50, €20.16 (New Item) (arrived 22-Sep-2020 14:58)on September 24, 2020 at 3:17 am
GEORGE HARRISON Brainwashed (2002 UK limited edition 12-track CD, digipak picture sleeve with sixteen page booklet housed in a scarce limited hype stickered outer slipcase with a promotional copy sticker over the barcode on the reverse indicating this copy was likely sent to radio stations in advance of release. Much of this album was readied by George himself before his untimely death and the remainder produced by Dhani Harrison & Jeff Lynne)
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