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 - Beatles For Sale - 1 Box - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $118.75, €111.15 (New Item) (arrived 03-May-2024 18:28)on May 5, 2024 at 7:55 am
THE BEATLES Beatles For Sale (Rare 1969 UK issue of the 1964 14-track stereo LP on the short-lived one EMI box logo label, complete with red toned advert inner. This label design was used very briefly in 1969 only, between the Apple label & the standard two EMI box logo. Few LPs were pressed with this label & very few have survived this well. Comes housed in a front laminated gatefold picture sleeve with internal flipbacks & company catalogue inner. The sleeve has some wear evidentto the edges and corners, whilst the vinyl is clean with just a few general light signs of play, in Excellent condition PCS3062)
- George Harrison - Cloud Nine - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 15:25)on May 5, 2024 at 7:55 am
GEORGE HARRISON Cloud Nine (1987 UK/German-pressed 11-track LP, featuring guest appearances from Jeff Lynne, Eric Clapton, Elton John & Ringo Starr, glossy picture sleeve with illustrated inner. The sleeve & vinyl are in Excellent condition with minimal wear & play WX123)
- The Beatles - The Beatles Monthly Book - 1st - 34 Issues - UK - magazine - £150.00, $187.50, €175.50 (New Item) (arrived 30-Apr-2024 16:12)on May 5, 2024 at 7:55 am
THE BEATLES The Beatles Monthly Book (Superb quantity of Thirty Four original official monthly magazines from June 1966 through to March 1969. All are crammed with facts, figures, rare photographs and in-depth information on theFabs during the height of Beatlemania. This collection remain in excellent condition with some minor signs or wear & age, with some light creasing & mild weathering, some do have a name or address wrtten on the cover as was common practice amongstnewsagents.A very nice collection of first issue magazines in very reasonable second hand condition. Please see more details below as to what issue numbers are included)
- The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's - 1st - Complete - VG - UK - vinyl LP - £295.00, $368.75, €345.15 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 10:06)on May 5, 2024 at 7:55 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...
- George Harrison - This Is Love - UK - 12" vinyl - £30.00, $37.50, €35.10 (New Item) (arrived 01-May-2024 11:10)on May 5, 2024 at 7:55 am
GEORGE HARRISON This Is Love (Rare 1988 UK 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including Breath Away From Heaven and All Those Years Ago, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl appears barely played W7913T)
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