Description
The Near Fine dust jacket is white paper with illustration of the Beatles, the back panel has another illustration of the Beatles. The As New binding is white cloth over boards, black lettering on spine. Frontispiece is photo of the Beatles. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 12.2″ tall x 10.4″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
N○ other event had a greater effect on modern popular culture than Beatlemania. It permeated every level of society on a global scale The Fab Four were demigods to an entire generation. The evidence is everywhere. No other musician’s death was mourned more deeply than John Lennon’s. Paul McCartney is today the world’s wealthiest recording artist. Although they live in relative seclusion, George Harrison and Ringo Starr continue to garner headlines with their every move.
There have been hundreds of volumes published on the Beatles both as a group and as individuals. But none has amassed to such an extent the icons of their time. THE BEATLES: A CELEBRATION is the ultimate tribute to that time.
Gathered from one of the world’s largest private collections of Beatle memorabilia, the book includes never-before-published interviews with friends, relatives, and co-workers of the Beatles; exclusive photographs of the Beatles in the studio; rare examples of rejected album cover designs and posters; handwritten lyric sheets and letters; and samples of artwork by members of the band, many never before reproduced in book form. Highlights include interviews conducted by the author with George Harrison, Yoko Ono, Mike McCartncy, and Julian Lennon; with Paddy Delaney, the original bouncer at the Cavern, Tom McKenzie, the Beatles’ compere, Shambu Das, tutor to George Harrison on sitar, Alistair Taylor, Apple Corps’s office manager, and Peter Brown, personal assistant and friend of the Beatles; extensive biographies of George Martin and Brian Epstein that give new information about their lives; and an in-depth look at the Beatles as artists and at the spiritual aspect of the Beatles’ lives. Finally, THE BEATLES: A CELEBRATION provides the most up-to-date information on what the Fab
Three and Yoko Ono are doing today.
THE BEATLES: A CELEBRATION is the ultimate collectible for the Beatles fan, the student of sixties pop culture, the collector, and the generation that grew up longing for a mop-top haircut and a front seat at Shea Stadium.
