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— Join host Jude Southerland Kessler, author of The John Lennon Series of narrative biographies, for a riveting conversation with former Daily Express foreign correspondent, author, and distinguished interviewer Ivor Davis as he discusses the TWO new books he wrote in 2024, The 60th Anniversary ...
Thank you, mister man, they said, thanking him.” So wrote John Lennon, shortly before he became the most famous man on the planet. And that’s all the background you’re getting. Tim is a self-confessed Beatles anorak. Many people have Chekhov’s Revolver on their mantelpiece, but ...
John Lennon was assassinated. Then, after George Harrison during an interview (sorry, don’t have link but it’s on YouTube) claimed Paul was indeed dead, so became Harrison!
John LennonandPaul McCartneyknew each other for twenty-three years, from 1957 to 1980. Using a selection of songs they wrote and performed before, during, and afterThe Beatlesthis book is the biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world. ...
, when he wrote his new wave/electro-pop classic “Are “Friends” Electric?,” and New Wave Of British Heavy Metal behemoths Iron Maiden recast Aldous Huxley’sBrave New Worldas a six-minute epic on their 2000 album of the same name....
Granted unprecedented access to Abbey Road’s vaults and tape logs, Mark Lewisohn wrote The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions as a sequel to The Beatles Live!, a chronicle of all the concerts the Fabs played. That 1986 book splits the difference between fan service and scholarship, but The ...
Turns out that Anita Carter was responsible for the original version, sister of June Carter (who Cash eventually married), who wrote the song along with Merle Kilgore. Carter’s voice is a noteworthy contrast to Cash’s—the way she croons the iconic line “I believed you like a child/oh...
Seventy-two years ago, General Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated as President of the United States in what would prove to be the first of two terms. Robert Lowell, who had gone to prison rather than serve in the military during World War II, wrote a poem commemorating that occasion. The fo...
The Trump presidency has dramatically raised the bar on what’s out-of-bounds politically. In the book, the Hartley-Thibodeaux campaign platform had to be re-written because what I wrote in the original draft, though it seemed outrageous at the time, has become the new normal. ...