The Love You Make
An Insider's Story of the Beatles
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4.3 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed, astonishingly intimate biography of the Beatles, as told by the band and their inner circle—featuring 32 pages of rare photos
“THE BEST BACKSTAGE BEATLES BOOK.”—TIME
“THE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON THE BEATLES.”—NEW YORK POST
“FINALLY, THE REAL STORY.”—ROLLING STONE
The Love You Make is an in-depth account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—teamed up with journalist Steven Gaines to present a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century.
Written with the full cooperation of each of the group’s members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs—from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. Hailed by Newsday as “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives . . . of the oft-scrutinized group,” The Love You Make reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this behind-the-scenes tale reappears in paperback (after all, didn't Rolling Stone say it would "sell forever"?). One of the suit men-as the Beatles dismissively, often with good reason, called the folk who saw to their business affairs-recreates the well-known saga of Beatlemania but does it dispassionately enough to make it interesting. Brown, who directed the Beatles management firm NEMS and later their disastrous financial organization Apple, seems to have survived the experience unscathed, the purges, rancor, glamour, notoriety, the dishonesty, jealousy and infighting among all those who wanted a piece of the action, or a bigger cut, which eventually came to include the musicians themselves as the group began to split apart. While seeming to be objective, he leaves little doubt about his preferences as he discusses the Beatles individually, their parents and in-laws, wives and lovers, probing the personalities to show us the underside of the pop culture with its sleazy pursuit of the big buck. There are revelations about John and Yoko and about their drug addiction, but the material is otherwise pretty familiar. Still, it's a dramatically good story and Brown catches us with the headiness of it all-and Gaines's now well-known name and a new foreword by rock critic Anthony DeCurtis may spark a little extra interest.
