The Love You Make
An Insider's Story of the Beatles
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Publisher Description
The national bestseller that Newsday called “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group,” from the author of All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words.
In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—presents 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.
In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Includes 32 pages of rare and revealing photos
A Literary Guild® Alternate Selection
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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.
Customer Reviews
Thanks for wrecking a great book with crappy ebook technology
The story itself is great but this ebook version is fraught with dozen of mistakes caused no doubt by a crummy scanning program and corporate disregard. Don't pay for this ebook unless they fix it first; don't support slipshod ebooks. They are charging full price for these electronic versions which cost them nothing, yet the product received deserves a refund. Shameless!
Smarmy Exploitive Crap & Incredibly Lousy e-Transcription
I've had the hardcover of this book since it was first published and had been looking forward to reading it again, this time in e-book format. But I've never seen so many and such egregious typographical errors in a single e-book. None of these appear in the hardcover (I double checked one format against the other). Incidentally, if yore wondering what happened to the advertised 32 photos, they appear after the index.
Apart from the tyope-o issue, I'm still sorry I bought this e-book version. I'd forgotten how smarmy, sycophantic, and two-faced the writing is. (I'm sure Peter Brown didn't endear himself to any of the former Beatles or their families with his snide commentaries, rude speculations about events he couldn't possibly have witnessed. All these years later, I found the book invasive, course and exploitive. I felt slimy for having participated and wish I hadn't help fatten Brown's bank account further.