Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett tells the colorful and dramatic final chapter in the lives, loves, and legal battles of the Beatles
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- Harper
- Carton Qty: 28
- Selling Territory: USCOM
- 40,000
- LC: 2009052673
- Subsidiary Rights: First serial, Audio: HarperStudio; UK, Translation, Dramatic: Writers House LLC
- On Sale: 6/8/2010
- MUSIC
- Tr 9780061774461 $24.99 ($26.99)
- 400 pages; 6 x 9
- 8-page b&w photo insert
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•National and regional media: print, radio and online
•National review attention
•Online marketing to Beatles fan websites and music sites
Photo Credit: Chris Parker
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Beatles
1. John Lennon believed 9 was his lucky number, so much so that he rewrote history, claiming he and Yoko Ono met on November 9, 1966 instead of November 7.
2. Paul McCartney was inspired by Mal Evans, an employee at Apple Corp, to write “Let It Be” after Mal said the phrase to calm his worries about the band’s impending legal woes.
3. Bob Dylan was the only musician who The Beatles considered to be their superior.
4. John was the first member to quit the band.
5. George Harrison became chums with the Monty Python crew and encouraged them to do a parody of The Beatles—a fictitious band called The Rutles.
6. Paul was the first member to officially break the news of the band’s break-up in a Q&A he released to the press.
7. Richard Starkey, aka Ringo, had a short career as a Hollywood actor, doing several films in the 70s.
8. George was the first artist to release a triple-disc album.
9. Paul wrote and starred in the film Give My Regards to Broad Street.
10. A Chuck Berry song spurred John to write “Come Together.”
1. John Lennon believed 9 was his lucky number, so much so that he rewrote history, claiming he and Yoko Ono met on November 9, 1966 instead of November 7.
2. Paul McCartney was inspired by Mal Evans, an employee at Apple Corp, to write “Let It Be” after Mal said the phrase to calm his worries about the band’s impending legal woes.
3. Bob Dylan was the only musician who The Beatles considered to be their superior.
4. John was the first member to quit the band.
5. George Harrison became chums with the Monty Python crew and encouraged them to do a parody of The Beatles—a fictitious band called The Rutles.
6. Paul was the first member to officially break the news of the band’s break-up in a Q&A he released to the press.
7. Richard Starkey, aka Ringo, had a short career as a Hollywood actor, doing several films in the 70s.
8. George was the first artist to release a triple-disc album.
9. Paul wrote and starred in the film Give My Regards to Broad Street.
10. A Chuck Berry song spurred John to write “Come Together.”
Quotes
"Doggett documents rock's most agonizing four-way divorce. Rigorously researched, You Never Give Me Your Money is a dark but compelling endnote to rock's greatest story."
- Rolling Stone
"I had such a ball reading You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup that once I finished, I returned to page one and read it all over again."
- Newsweek
"Elegant and deeply researched...You Never Give Me Your Money posits a nuanced afterlife for the Beatles. [Peter Doggett] has found a new lens (and much new information) through which to consider the band."
- Los Angeles Times
"Doggett has crafted an authentic and enlightening book full of myth-busting surprises and insight."
- Library Journal
"Fascinating.Doggett captures the competitive sparks that flew among the four men, especially between Lennon and Paul McCartney, and also the mutual affection that formed the basis of their complicated relationships.A must for Beatles fans and good for more casual pop-music enthusiasts, too."
- Booklist
"Peter Doggett's book about the Beatles' split is a real page-turner."
- Annie Lennox
“An enthralling new book on [The Beatles].... Impossible to put down”
- The Independent
“Doggett, a music journalist, offers refreshingly straightforward and highly readable portraits of the leading players.”
- Daily Telegraph (London)
"a gripping account that portrays [The Beatles] as something much more interesting than the airbrushed Gods we've recently seen: damaged, eternally bickering men, left punch-drunk by the group's success"
- The Guardian
“What Doggett has achieved is a laying bare of the darker consequences of enormous fame and wealth. Yes, there is the glory but there’s also the concomitant pressure of how to deal with the myth and the legacy—while trying to keep four very different voices in harmony.”
- Irish Times
"Doggett's book charts an admirably unstarry-eyed path through the break-up of the band and beyond."
- Metro London
"[Doggett's] identification of the forces that drove The Beatles apart and kept them so for the best part of 30 years is not new, but his forensic tenacity and unyielding gaze are."
- Mojo
“A breathtaking record of uncontrolled fame’s grotesque side-effects”
- Q