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Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era. It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.įrom the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). ![]() As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.' No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. ![]() John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Awardįrom the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April 2021 ![]()
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