Author(s): Steve Turner

Music

There was rich praise for the original edition of The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs. In his autobiography, Many Years From Now, even Paul McCartney acknowledged Steve Turner's work. Who was 'just seventeen' and made Paul's heart go 'boom'? Was there really an Eleanor Rigby? Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy by investigating the events immortalised in The Beatles' music and now occupying a special niche in popular culture's collective imagination. The songs explored here are all from the first half of their lives together on record: the period largely characterised by Beatle mania, concert tours, from the first hit Love Me Do and first album Please Please Me through to Help and Rubber Soul.