The Beatles The Stories Behind The Songs 1962 66

Description

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.

Author description

Steve Turner is the author of The Man Called Cash: The Life, Loves and Faith of an American Legend, Trouble Man: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye, The Gospel According to the Beatles, Van Morrison: Too Late to Stop Now, and Cliff Richard: Bachelor Boy.