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Published together for the first time, this collection of letters to family, friends, lovers and complete strangers from the beloved Beatle offers an intimate look into the true personality and mind of one of popular music's most prolific and revered artists.
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Story of the Beatles starting in Liverpool before the lads formed the band in 1960. Relive the frenzy as it began in England and spread across Europe, then on to America where the "British Invasion" began in 1964 with their arrival in New York. Enjoy over 50 clips from their five movies too. This entertaining documentary, complete with rare footage and interviews, captures all the magic!
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Experience the gritty details of the iconic Beatles chronology during their middle years and the uncontested status they achieved as objectively the biggest band in the world. While many of The Beatles' friends and family members knew that the band would be big, they weren't prepared for the men to redefine what "big" meant.
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Experience The Beatles' ascent to fame from their pivotal gigs, barely scraping by, through their being discovered by the manager who would change their lives – and world history – forever. Brian Epstein acts as an exemplar and standard for talent managers, having taken The Beatles from humble beginnings to international stardom within a matter of years.
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Amidst the devastation of World War II, four boys from Liverpool were born to humble and impoverished beginnings. In this episode, we explore the birthplaces of each Beatle and the circumstances that shaped their early lives through their famously rebellious teenage years. The family and friends of George, Paul, John, and Ringo recount their memories of the legendary men from before their stardom, when they were just young lads.
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Explore the final years of The Beatles: the highs, lows, and everything in between that would ultimately culminate in the beloved group's dissolution. The exploding popularity of the Beatles can be analyzed as a necessary phenomenon, a group that mutated into something that they once weren't, acting as a catalyst to get certain issues moving and progress as a whole, persevering long after their disbandment.
11) Imagine
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Illustrates, through the eyes of a little pigeon, John Lennon's song about imagining a world at peace, in which people of all sorts live as one. Includes afterword about peace, freedom, and Amnesty International.
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Eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennon's rise from Hamburg's red light district to Britain's Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naïveté of "Love Me Do" to the soaring ambivalence of "Don't Let Me Down"; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. This narrative...
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“I have always hoped people would look deeper into the music than they seem to. Here is the mirror of my life. Here is the means to understand who I really am." (John Lennon, 1980)
Here, from the extensive private archives of the world's foremost Beatles' historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano, comes, perhaps, the rarest, virtually unheard long-lost interviews with the founder and spiritual heart of the Beatles.
In this incredible audiobook, you...
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"It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and his memories of his parents, he sets off to find calm in the comfortable silence of isolation. But when he puts himself in the hands of a shape-shifting driver full of Irish charm and dark whimsy, what ensues can only be termed a...