150 Glimpses of the Beatles
Book description
Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our time
"If you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time, read this book.” ―Alan Johnson,…
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Why read it?
1 author picked 150 Glimpses of the Beatles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
To those who grew up in the 1960s and even for many who are much younger, the Beatles are the rock musicians we know the most about by far. We know their hometown, who the band’s ex-members are, Ringo’s birth name, and which half of Lennon and McCartney wrote which songs credited to the duo. So it’s amazing how much this book reveals that almost nobody previously knew about the Fab Four.
Craig Brown recounts what happened when John Lennon finally got a chance to meet his boyhood sex fantasy Brigitte Bardot, describes outlandish members of the group’s entourage, and…