Ticket To Ride
Inside The Beatles' 1964 Tour that Changed The World
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Publisher Description
Larry Kane was the only American to travel to every stop on the Beatles 1964 and 1965 tours of America and Canada. Ticket Ticket To Ride is the only insider's account ever published that takes the reader on the day-to-day adventure of the Beatles' historic tours. From the dressing rooms to the hotel rooms, on the airplanes, and in the concert hall, Larry Kane was close with the "boys", as they were called, and the non-stop drama that surrounded them. A witness to 61 concerts, the veteran radio newsman and of 37 years as an anchorman in Philadelphia, makes you a fly on the wall to the beginning of Beatlemania, and all the details of life surrounding it. Kane is the author of five books, including NY Times and LA Tiimes Best Seller "Lennon
Revealed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
John Lennon once said that the Beatles on tour were as debauched as the ancient Romans in Fellini's Satyricon. Outside of a description of a "happy" Lennon urging his band mates to "take your pick" from a group of hookers provided by an Atlantic City concert promoter, this highly entertaining account by broadcast journalist Kane, who covered the tour at the time, is as discreet about the Fab Four's sexual adventures as they were, although Kane notes that "women came and went from the Beatles' floor in most hotels." But in all other respects, from fiery airplanes and rioting fans to encounters with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Jayne Mansfield (the latter two seem to spend "quality" time with Lennon), this is a fantastic insider's look at the cultural explosion that was Beatlemania. It helps that Kane was only 21 at the time (the same age as Paul McCartney); unlike "dull-witted" reporters whom the Beatles came to disdain, Kane quickly noted "their indisputable naturalness and, to varying degrees, the depth of their humanity and their lack of phoniness." In turn, the Beatles rewarded Kane with many in-depth interviews through the tour (60 minutes of which are included on an accompanying CD), which Kane skillfully uses throughout provide the Beatles' own insightful view of the ongoing craziness surrounding them, as they travel from one chaotic hotel and concert scene to another. This is the most detailed description yet of the Beatles' American tours, and one of the few books on the band written in the past decade that can be considered indispensable.
Customer Reviews
Heartfelt
A genuine book telling story of an historic journey without the fawning of stardom. Here the Beatles emerge as four young and, initially, naive young men, eyes wide open to the improbability of the chaos that was engulfing them. Their journey, in it's often violent craziness, brings them to the end of who they had become as a live act. As we leave them in 1965 they are on the edge where their music and the growing sophistication of their recordings are about to change the history of pop music forever.