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The Beatles
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The first authorised biography of the Beatles, by the journalist Hunter Davies, was published in 1968. According to Davies, his publisher worried that it was already too late for a book, that ‘the bubble’s going to burst …we know everything that we could possibly want to know about the Beatles, and they’ll disappear soon.’
Davies’ publisher, Heinemann, wasn’t completely . The Beatles were indeed about to disappear: their break-up lay just two years away in 1970. But public interest didn’t disappear with them.
Over the past fifty years, there has been a Beatles books. Biographies, memoirs, music studies, cultural histories and reference works; hostile hatchet jobs, muckraking tell-alls and sycophantic suck-ups; good books, bad books, serious books, jokey books and bizarre books. Rather than bursting, the bubble has into a publishing industry.
Craig Brown’s One Two Three Four is its latest addition. An account of the band’s lifetime told in 150 short chapters, it is not based on new research; instead, the British journalist has, in his cheerful admission, ‘’ and ‘raided’ the millions of words already written about the Fab Four.
Davies’ publisher, Heinemann, wasn’t completely . The Beatles were indeed about to disappear: their break-up lay just two years away in 1970. But public interest didn’t disappear with them.
Over the past fifty years, there has been a Beatles books. Biographies, memoirs, music studies, cultural histories and reference works; hostile hatchet jobs, muckraking tell-alls and sycophantic suck-ups; good books, bad books, serious books, jokey books and bizarre books. Rather than bursting, the bubble has into a publishing industry.
Craig Brown’s One Two Three Four is its latest addition. An account of the band’s lifetime told in 150 short chapters, it is not based on new research; instead, the British journalist has, in his cheerful admission, ‘’ and ‘raided’ the millions of words already written about the Fab Four.
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