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80/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Craig Brown
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
October 13, 2020
Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the fab four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their influence extends far beyond music and into realms as diverse as fashion and fine art, sexual politics and religion. From the author of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a kaleidoscopic examination of the Beatles' effect on the world around them and the world they helped bring into being.
What The Reviewers Say
... riveting.
...often witty.
...he prises the basic story away from its standard telling, and delights in a motley supporting cast united by their brushes with Beatledom.
Time-play and what-ifs are part of Brown’s formidable bag of tricks, deployed to add emotional range and a poignant twist to his comic vignettes. His biographical method — combining fragments, lists, excerpts, quotes and flights of whimsy — is executed as brilliantly here as in 2017’s glittering Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.
