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Name: The Beatles Anthology
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The Beatles

An Unprecedented Look at the Most Influential Band of All Time

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The Beatles Anthology is a retrospective book on the legendary British band, The Beatles. It features personal accounts, photographs and archives of the band's journey from 1957 to 1970.

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What’s in it for me? Discover the Beatles’ epic career from the band’s perspective.

I want to tell you about the Beatles.

Not just the familiar story, though, with the funny haircuts and classic album covers. I want to tell you the inside track – the Beatles according to the Beatles.

I want to tell you the story of the three Liverpool lads who all played the same instrument, and disappointed a stripper because of their musical illiteracy. I want to tell you the story of the band that ate themselves silly whenever they scored a hit. I want to tell you the story of the band who watched themselves fail to turn up to lunch with the Filipino first family.

And in this Blink – I will.

The Beatles Anthology was actually a multimedia project between 1995 and 2000. There was a television documentary series, three compilation albums, and a book which is essentially an autobiography of the band. It’s made up of detailed interview material from Paul, George, and Ringo, compiled quotations from John (who died in 1980), contributions from the other key people involved, and lots of archive photography.

This Blink which gives you a glimpse inside the world of the Beatles, as revealed in the Anthology – not just a day in the life, but the full decade they were together. So as well as a whistle-stop, magical mystery tour through the landmark moments in the band’s career, you’ll get the inside track.

Will I cover everything? Not a chance. But hey, we’re all doing what we can.

Oh, and also – you might spot the odd allusion to Beatles songs and song lyrics, too. If you don’t recognize them all – well, your mother should know.

So let’s get started with this Blink of The Beatles Anthology – from me to you.

In this Blink, you’ll learn

how the band grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool;
where the title “A Hard Day’s Night” came from; and
why Ringo learned to play chess in the recording studio.

Chapter 1. Boys

John Lennon’s first memories come from a three-bedroom red-brick house on Newcastle Road, in a Liverpool suburb called Penny Lane. But his parents split when he was four, and John moved to a wealthier part of town to live with his Aunt Mimi.

A trendy young boy, always the ringleader, he would lark about with his friends and sell lemonade in Strawberry Field, around the corner. Then he discovered rock’n’roll, guitars, and girls. As he got older, he reconnected with his mother, Julia – but tragically, she was killed in a drunk-driving accident when John was 17.

Losing his mother was a bond he shared with Paul McCartney, who was 14 when his mum died of cancer. His family was poorer than John’s, but warmer – and more musical, especially his dad, a trumpeter who passed on his love of brass bands and piano music.

With a little help from a mutual friend, Ivan, Paul met John one day at a local fair, and Paul impressed enough to get into John’s group, the Quarry Men – even though he was playing his guitar upside down. But Paul found he got stage fright when he tried a solo, so he roped in a kid he got the school bus with, George Harrison.

George was from a similar background to Paul – his dad was a bus driver and former seaman – but he was in the school year below; nine months younger than Paul and more than two years younger than John. But there was something in the way he played guitar – he was obsessed with them – so he too joined the Quarry Men.

There were other band members in those days, but when the musically gifted trio of John, Paul, and George came together, it felt good. There was just one problem: they were all guitarists.

Chapter 2. Hamburg

John had started art college in 1957 – you might say he was a dreamer – and he roped his college pal Stuart Sutcliffe into the band. Stuart wasn’t much of a musician, but he did buy a bass guitar, which was pretty much all you needed.

Oh, and they weren’t the Quarry Men anymore – John and Stuart came up with the Beatles – after Buddy Holly and the Crickets, plus a pun on “beat” music.

Chapter 3. 1963

By 1963, the Beatles’ lives had changed, in oh, so many ways.

Stuart, for starters, had left the band. He tragically died in 1962.

Chapter 4. 1964

Every little thing the Beatles were doing was turning to magic in the UK. But the States? That was a whole different matter – until 1964.

The Beatles were on tour in Paris when Brian Epstein got the telegram from Capitol Records, which had agreed to promote the band in the US. Brian came running into the Beatles’ room with an amazing piece of news. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” had got to number one in the US!

Chapter 5. 1965

Movie number two was soon in the works. John wrote the title song. It sounds at first like a standard upbeat rock’n’roll number – but in fact, John later said, it really was a cry for “Help!”

This was what John would call his “fat Elvis period.” All this success was fabulous, but hard to manage: they were constantly touring or recording, and he was depressed.

Chapter 6. 1966

Having been here, there and everywhere for years now, 1966 began with some much-needed downtime. They’d just done what turned out to be their last ever UK tour, so took a few months off to regroup and soak in some of the amazing cultural changes that were happening all around them.

But they were, you might say, only sleeping. In April they were back in the studio – with big ideas.

Chapter 7. 1967

Until 1967, the Beatles’ albums had been quickfire affairs, tucked into a busy schedule of touring. But they’d been getting increasingly interested in the possibilities of the studio. Their ambitious first release of the year came out quickly – the double A-side “Strawberry Fields Forever”/“Penny Lane” – but their next full album ended up taking nine months. It was worth it.

The legendary concept behind Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was mainly Paul’s idea. Because they were trying to escape from themselves and the pressures they faced, Paul hit upon the idea of framing the whole album with an alter ego, Sgt. Pepper, as master of ceremonies.

Chapter 8. 1968

Somehow, the band managed to get a whole second album out at the end of 1967 – Magical Mystery Tour, accompanying the original but amateurish film of the same name.

Their own magical mystery tour was flying to India to further their interest in meditation with Maharishi. Even though they did get some songs written, it wasn’t quite the experience they’d been searching for. Maharishi’s behavior didn’t live up to the group’s expectations – “Maharishi, what have you done?” wrote John, later changing the name to “Sexy Sadie.” Slightly disenchanted, the group said hello, goodbye separately, leaving at different times.

Chapter 9. 1969 (side A)

In later years, John would say that Yoko herself didn’t break the Beatles up. It was more that meeting her changed his own attitude: suddenly, nothing else mattered. Their coupling was so intense that she was even in the studio during the White Album recording sessions.

It was the same in January 1969, when sessions began for the album provisionally titled Get Back. A film crew was documenting the recording progress, which – along with Yoko’s presence – made for a weird, uncomfortable atmosphere. Paul was winding the others up too, by being overly proactive. Things were so bad, that George even left at one point.

Chapter 10. The end

The band, including George Martin, looked back on Abbey Road as a happy album – probably because it felt clear it would be the last album they recorded (although Let It Be would be the last they released).

John and Paul had so many bits and pieces of songs that they sewed them all together into a continuous medley – which became the second side of the album. Ringo penned a lighthearted original number, “Octopus’s Garden.” And George finally blossomed in full as a songwriter, with two of the very best: “Here Comes the Sun” and “Something.”

Epilogue

Bound up with the radical cultural changes of the 1960s, the Beatles’ decade-long career saw them skyrocket from a humble rock’n’roll outfit from northern England to the biggest act in the world. Their groundbreaking music and ever-evolving public image ensured that John, Paul, George, and Ringo left us with a wonderful legacy.

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The Beatles Anthology (2000) is the story of the Beatles, told in their own words. Through original and archive interviews, the band and those closest to them recount the tale of their spectacular and influential career.

Wer The Beatles Anthology lesen sollte

Beatles fans, old and new
Memoir lovers who enjoy the inside story
Cultural history enthusiasts interested in the 1960s

Über den Autor

The Beatles – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr – were one of the most successful and acclaimed bands of all time. They recorded a string of hit records and albums through the 1960s, before disbanding in 1970. John Lennon died in 1980 and George Harrison in 2001.

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