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Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time

If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book. Alan Johnson, The Spectator

Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the Fab Four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fashion and fine art, sexual politics and religion. When they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fresh off the plane from England, they provoked an epidemic of hoarse-throated fandom that continues to this day.

Who better, then, to capture the Beatles phenomenon than Craig Brownthe inimitable author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret and master chronicler of the foibles and fo

150 Glimpses of the Beatles

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/10/2021
      ISBN13: 9781250800145, 978-1250800145
      ISBN10: 1250800145
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      Autobiography: arts and entertainment Popular music

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

      A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time

      If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book. Alan Johnson, The Spectator

      Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the Fab Four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fashion and fine art, sexual politics and religion. When they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fresh off the plane from England, they provoked an epidemic of hoarse-throated fandom that continues to this day.

      Who better, then, to capture the Beatles phenomenon than Craig Brownthe inimitable author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret and master chronicler of the foibles and fo

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