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The Beatles in Their Own Words, written by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines, is comprised of hours and hours of previously unpublished interviews conducted in late 1980.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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