All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words
Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle
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Publisher Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.
All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of their international bestseller, The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list in 1983 and remains the biggest selling biography worldwide about the Beatles
Only a small portion of the contents of these transcribed interviews have ever been revealed. The interviews are unique and candid. The information, stories, and experiences, and the authority of the people who relate to them, have historic value. No collection like this can ever be assembled again.
In addition to interviews with Paul, Yoko, Ringo and George, Brown and Gaines also include interviews from ex-wives Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison Clapton, and Maureen Starkey, as well as the major social and business figures of the Beatles’ inner circle. Among other sought-after information the interviews contribute definitively as to why the Beatles broke up.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
As manager Brian Epstein’s assistant, Peter Brown had a uniquely intimate relationship with The Beatles. For one thing, every Thursday afternoon until their 1970 breakup, he gave each band member an envelope containing £40 of cash (their weekly retainer!). In 1983, Brown teamed up with co-author Steven Gaines to publish the remarkable history The Love You Make. Now, just over 40 years later, he and Gaines give us the transcripts of their interviews with the band and their inner circle. These interviews took place in the fall of 1980, just before John Lennon’s murder; they capture the last moments before the group’s story changed forever. It’s the memories from the Beatles’ ex-wives and the others around them—from road manager Neil Aspinall to future Oscar-winning producer David Puttnam, a friend from the clubs of Swinging London—that are the most illuminating. Together, they create the closest we’ll ever have to a comprehensive oral history of The Beatles.
