We here atbeatlesblogger.comhave a mountain of books aboutThe Beatles. Amongst them is just one other book onBeatlefashion,Fab Gear – The Beatles and Fashionby Paolo Hewitt – and it’s long out of print. That is proof that very little has been written about this aspect of the band’s...
"All the best stories are true" — every year, the judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize try to identify the very best nonfiction books written that year.
Song by the Beatles The song “Help!” by The Beatles was written by John Lennon with some assistance from Paul McCartney. During an interview John Lennon recounted: “The whole Beatles thing... Songs lyrics / The Beatles THE BEATLES songs Lyrics HEY JUDE original English text ENG The ...
However, nonfiction books written for the average reader (not college textbook material) should trend shorter in my opinion. Often, the length becomes a case of “who cites who” and if we wanted to read the ideas of 100 experts on the topic, we could grab some of their own books. ...
Any reader who’s ever heard about Chekhov’s gun will know to expect something explosive to come: a shooting, a robbery, a suicide, perhaps. By the time Der große Ausverkauf, the German original of Central Stores, was published in 1937, Baum had written 19 books in as many years,...
few of which he knew. As we moved through the sea of admirers on America’s most sacred street way back in the Summer of Love, 1967, I asked Marty about the secret of writing great songs — and I knew he’d written some of them quickly. His mega-hit “Miracles,” for instance, ...
Why you should read it:One of the first accounts and one that gets close to the early Beatles. A Cellarful of Noise, Brian Epstein (ghost-written by Derek Taylor).This is an interesting period piece that gave insights into Epstein’s life managing the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania...
Written on the verso:"All signatures on this photograph personally obtaine by Senator mark O. Hatfield of Oregon. Senator Hatfield was also Chairman of Reagan’s inaugural Committee. This photograph was signed at the request of Stephen Koschal of Verona, New Jersey. Jimmy Carter autographed this...
When the novel came out in paperback in early 1970s, the Chicago Tribune’s book editor observed cynically, “It is one of the most revealing books ever written about a woman. Which is probably why the hardcover edition vanished without a trace.” If anyone picked up Sam’s Song in ...
As a co-commission with the RTE (he is its Associate Artist) and the BBC Concert Orchestras, Guy created bravura new arrangements of Charles Mingus’s music to a text written by me and spoken/sung by Allan Harris. But Inferno 67 is something else, as you can tell from this ad in ...