Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation

UPDATED TO INCLUDE PAUL McCARTNEY'S KNIGHTING AND THE DEATHS OF JOHN LENNON AND GEORGE HARRISONPhilip Norman's biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band -- a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought completely up to date, this epic tale charts the rise of four scruffy Liverpool lads from their wild, often comical early days to the astonishing heights of Beatlemania, from the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism to the band's acrimonious split. It also describes their struggle to escape the smothering Beatles' legacy and the tragic deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Witty, insightful, and moving,Shout!is essential reading not just for Beatles fans but for anyone with an interest in pop music.

Philip Norman is a journalist and a novelist who in 1968 was assigned to cover the Beatles’ own business utopia, Apple Corps, from the inside. He is the author of Rave On: The Biography of Buddy Holly and many other books.

Prologue September 2001: Across the Universe

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PART ONE Wishing

1 "He was the one I'd waited for"

3

(17)

2 "Quarry Men, strong before our birth"

20

(19)

3 "If I'd just said a few more words, it might have saved her"

39

(22)

4 "The bass drum used to roll away across the stage"

61

(18)

5 The Great Freedom

79

(25)

6 "Hi, all you Cavern-dwellers. Welcome to the best of cellars"

104

(23)

PART TWO Getting

7 "What brings Mr. Epstein here?"

127

(23)

8 "Elvis's manager calling Brian Epstein in Birkenhead"

150

(16)

9 "Somebody had to pay for those 10,000 records Brian bought"

166

(23)

10 "Four frenzied Little Lord Fauntleroys earning 5,000 pounds a week"

189

(21)

11 "Even the jelly babies are symbolic"

210

(30)

12 "They've got everything over there. What do they want us for?"

240

(21)

PART THREE Having

13 "One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life"

261

(29)

14 "This is it. This is the last one ever"

290

(24)

15 "I don't think there was any hope for him since the day he met the Beatles"

314

(37)

PART FOUR Wasting

16 "We've got to spend two million or the taxman will get it"

351

(22)

17 "Your finances are in a mess. Apple is in a mess"

373

(29)

18 "The Beatles are the biggest bastards in the world"

402

(31)

19 "Everybody saw the sunshine"

433

(20)

PART FIVE Lasting

20 "I just believe in me. Yoko and me"

453

(28)

21 "The freaks was right when they said you was dead"

481

(26)

22 "It don't come easy"

507

(20)

Index

527

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