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Book Review: “All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words” by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines

By Shelley L. Germeaux

All You Need is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words, written by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, is comprised of hours and hours of previously unpublished interviews conducted in late 1980. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were interviewed, but John Lennon was killed before the authors were able to meet with him. Yoko was interviewed shortly after John’s death.

These interviews were for done for their 1983 book, The Love You Make: an Insider’s Story of The Beatles. Forty years later, the authors felt the audio tapes of the interviews needed to be preserved. In a YouTube interview, Gaines revealed that the tapes were languishing in a safe and they were getting worried about them. For legal reasons, they could not actually air the tapes; so after much thought, they decided to transcribe them in this new book for posterity.

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Fantastic photos of The Beatles in Paul McCartney 1963-1964 Eyes of the Storm exhibition

This February marks the 60th anniversary of The Beatles first visit to America. While fans will reminisce about their experiences witnessing Beatlemania from the outside looking in, there’s one person who has recently documented his experience from the inside looking out – none other than Paul McCartney!

McCartney’s Eyes of the Storm exhibit which opened in London in 2023 is now making its way to the US. It’s first stop in the States is in Norfolk, Virginia at the Chrysler Museum of Art. In May 2024, it then travels to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. 

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Book Review: Confessions of a Rock ‘N’ Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview by Laurie Kaye

By Shelley L. Germeaux

Confessions of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview, released December 8, 2023, is Laurie Kaye’s 219-page memoir about her career in radio and the many rock stars she interviewed. The central focus of the book is her extraordinary experience interviewing John Lennon on December 8, 1980, hours before he was shot and killed. Referring to it as the “best day of her life and also the worst”, it has taken her decades to decide to write out her memories.

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Review: Mal Evans book, Living The Beatles Legend, provides the missing puzzle piece to Beatles history

At over 500 pages, the new book, Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans, will take months and even years for Beatles fans to digest. We finally have the missing puzzle piece to the Beatles story. Here was a man — The Beatles’ long-time roadie, personal assistant, and devoted friend — that witnessed practically every moment in the Beatles’ career. As a result, Evans became a true insider and eyewitness to history, and some say, The Sixth Beatle!

Author Ken Womack took on a ginormous task to organize and compile Mal Evans’ personal diaries, manuscripts and memorabilia. In fact, the second volume of this Mal Evans project will be released in 2024, which is a book that will contain Mal’s diaries, manuscripts, more photos and other artifacts from his time working for The Beatles. Meanwhile, the biography in this first volume, which includes numerous unseen photos and correspondence, combines Mal’s unpublished archives with hundreds of new interviews to fill in any gaps.

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Timeline: “Now and Then,” the last Beatles song, to be released with 2023 expanded versions of the Red and Blue greatest hits albums

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“Now And Then” is the last Beatles song – written and sung by John Lennon, developed and worked on by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and now finally finished by Paul and Ringo over four decades later.

Here is a brief timeline for release dates:

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