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 - Anthology 2 Sampler - UK - CD album - Promo - £25.00, $31.00, €29.00 (New Item) (arrived 24-Apr-2024 16:58)on April 24, 2024 at 10:13 pm
THE BEATLES Anthology 2 Sampler (1996 UK 10-track promotional CD, issued as part of Anthology 2's extensive promotional campaign & featuring ten selected tracks from the final release, including the 'Strings Only' version of Eleanor Rigby, jewel case with custom twelve page booklet picture sleeve CDANTH2)
- The Beatles - Meet The Beatles - Mfd By Apple Label - US - vinyl LP - £50.00, $62.00, €58.00 (New Item) (arrived 23-Apr-2024 13:13)on April 24, 2024 at 10:13 pm
THE BEATLES Meet The Beatles (1971 US Apple issue 12-track stereo LP with 'Mfd by Apple Records, Inc' label credit, Winchester mark in the run-out groove & 12 at the bottom right on the back of the sleeve, pasted picture sleeve with brown title. The sleeve shows just faint wear and the vinyl is Excellent with little sign of play ST2047)
- The Beatles - The Beatles [White Album] - 1st - VG - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £295.00, $365.80, €342.20 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2024 16:00)on April 24, 2024 at 10:13 pm
THE BEATLES The Beatles (1968 UK first issue 30-track stereo double vinyl LP with 'Sold in UK' label text, dark green Apple labels, black die-cut inners, large fold out lyric poster & four 8" x 11" colour photo prints in the original fully laminated, top opening, individually numbered internal flipback gatefold sleeve. See 'more info' for condition details... PCS7067-8) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- The Beatles - The Early Years - Cobblestones Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $14.88, €13.92 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2024 16:10)on April 24, 2024 at 10:13 pm
THE BEATLES The Early Years (1971 UK 12-track vinyl compilation LP featuring the Beatles' earliest recordings in Germany and their legendary recordings backing Tony Sheridan. The fully laminated picture sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear and the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play)
- The Beatles - With The Beatles - 2nd G&L - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £195.00, $241.80, €226.20 (New Item) (arrived 22-Apr-2024 18:13)on April 24, 2024 at 10:13 pm
THE BEATLES With The Beatles (1963 UK second pressing 14-track mono LP with 'The Parlophone Co' & 'Recording First Published 1963' label text, without 'Sold In The UK' and 'Dominion Belinda' credit for Money, front laminated Garrod & Lofthouseflipback picture sleeve PMC1206) See 'More Info' for further details on the condition of this LP...
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