The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
by Peter Brown, Steven Gaines
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Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called "the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives...of the oft-scrutinized group." In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band--and the best man at John and Yoko's wedding--presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the show more group's members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs--from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Includes 32 pages of rare and revealing photos A Literary Guild® Alternate Selection show lessTags
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TheOnlyTimeLord Great book, especially if you're looking for an insider's point of view! You will thank me later!
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According to Lennon, Peter Brown "came to the party late," at the tail end of Apple, and was one who took three hour lunches, and was pissed when The Beatles broke up because it ended the "gravy train".
It is especially telling that these "kiss-and-tells" were all published AFTER Lennon was murdered -- when he could not answer back.
Much more worthy are Shout!, by Philip Norman, and the authorized The Beatles, by Hunter Davies.
It is especially telling that these "kiss-and-tells" were all published AFTER Lennon was murdered -- when he could not answer back.
Much more worthy are Shout!, by Philip Norman, and the authorized The Beatles, by Hunter Davies.
Author, P Brown; of Apple Corp. John and Yoko's best man; but not easy on John. Like newspaper reporting; but apparently accurate, "inside story" of private lives. Introduction re: title : "The last lyric in the last song on the last Beatles' album" : ("And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.") Good quotes at chapter headings.
This book was available at my local library when I was a teenager in the 90s. I must have read it about five times. It was my favorite book about the Beatles.
Juicy -- with that title, how could it not be -- but still, a classic of the genre, by a real Beatles insider.
This book was available at my local library when I was a teenager in the 90s. I must have read it about five times. It was my favorite book about the Beatles.
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Steven Gaines is known for writing about one of America's pastimes: celebrities and pop culture icons. His works include The Love You Make (about the Beatles), Heroes and Villains (about the Beach Boys), Obsession: The Life and Times of Calvin Klein, and Philistines in the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- George Harrison; John Lennon; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr
- Important places
- Liverpool, England, UK
- Epigraph
- And in the end,
The love you take,
Is equal to the love,
You make.
—The last lyric
in the last song
on the last Beatles' album - First words
- It took her breath away, catching them like that.
- Quotations
- Peter Brown called to say you can make it okay; you can get married in Gibraltar near Spain.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Some fates, she says, cannot be changed.
Classifications
- Genres
- Music, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.421660922 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal Music, Singing Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography Collected biography
- LCC
- ML421 .B4 .B76 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
- BISAC
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- Reviews
- 7
- Rating
- (3.84)
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 8
