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All You Need Is Love The Beatles in ..., Peter Brown
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All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words
Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle

Author: Peter Brown, Steven Gaines

Narrator: Adam Stevens, Anthony Howell, Ben Jacobson, Emma Gregory, Mickey Knighton, Philip Stewart, Robert G. Slade, ShinFei Chen, Stefan Menaul​, Todd Kramer​

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/09/2024


Synopsis

"There are many incredible revelations about the relationships of John and Yoko and Paul and Linda and their impact on the band. This is one of those audiobooks you can't shut off and will never forget."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews.

All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of their international bestseller, The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list in 1983 and remains the biggest selling biography worldwide about the Beatles

Only a small portion of the contents of these transcribed interviews have ever been revealed. The interviews are unique and candid. The information, stories, and experiences, and the authority of the people who relate to them, have historic value. No collection like this can ever be assembled again.

In addition to interviews with Paul, Yoko, Ringo and George, Brown and Gaines also include interviews from ex-wives Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison Clapton, and Maureen Starkey, as well as the major social and business figures of the Beatles’ inner circle. Among other sought-after information the interviews contribute definitively as to why the Beatles broke up.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

About Peter Brown

PETER BROWN is the former COO of Apple Corp, the Beatles’ financial empire. He’s been a Beatles intimate since their earliest days in Liverpool. Their passports were locked in his desk drawer. He was best man at John and Yoko’s wedding, he introduced Paul to Linda Eastman, and perhaps the most charming of his credentials is that he’s the only real person ever mentioned in a Beatles song, “Peter Brown called to say, you can make it okay, you can marry in Gibraltar near Spain,” from the “Ballad of John and Yoko.” Mr. Brown is now chairman of the international public relations firm of BLJ Worldwide.

About Steven Gaines

STEVEN GAINES is the New York Times bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons and The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown). His journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for 12 years. Mr. Gaines is the co-founder and a past vice-chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival.


Reviews

Goodreads review by *TUDOR^QUEEN* on May 15, 2024

I have the original first edition hardcover of The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles, published in 1983 by these same two authors. It's one of my favorite Beatles biographies of all time, and was reread on countless occasions. Perhaps it's because Peter Brown was with The Beatles from......more

Goodreads review by Evan on April 24, 2024

3.5 Hmm... interesting. I learned some new things. But also it was confusing as I was reading because it didn't give a time frame for each specific interview.......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 13, 2024

This book is unnecessary and nothing really new. There's very little Beatles "in their own words" here. A disappointment.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 14, 2024

Interesting in parts an oral history of the beatles taken from interviews with the band and others connected to them......more

Goodreads review by Jo_Scho_Reads on April 22, 2024

All You Need is Love is a series of interviews, never seen or published before. They were conducted by Peter Brown and Stephen Gaines right around the time the demise of the Beatles was imminent. These never published interviews are with the Beatles themselves (exluding John Lennon) and with charact......more


Quotes

Praise for All You Need Is Love:

"Want to know why the Beatles broke up? Reveal[s] previously unknown details about the band’s story, including that devastating breakup. Brown is himself a long-time Beatles insider, having known the Fab Four since their early days as a band; he was best man when Lennon and Oko married in 1969. Steven Gaines is a journalist and author. For the new book, the pair have mined archival interviews with members of The Beatles, as well as with the women who were among their inner circle, including Yoko Ono, Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison Clapton and Maureen Starkey." —From the People Magazine Announcement

Praise and reviews for The Love You Make:


"Finally the real story.” —Rolling Stone

“Literate, complex…more than sensationalism…a hard-hitting yet sympathetic book that unflinchingly captures the highs and lows.” —The Boston Globe

“The best backstage memoir yet of the most amazing musical phenomenon of our times.” —The Washington Post Book World

“The definitive book on the Beatles.” —New York Post
“A gothic tale of drugs, sex, music, greed, booze, and genius…an entire generation’s loss of innocence.” —People

“Fascinating.” —The Indianapolis Star

“The most sensational Beatles biography…emotionally involving.” —Esquire

“The definitive book on the world’s greatest rock group…tells the truth with surprisingly little varnish.” —Chicago Tribune

“A dramatically good story....Peter Brown catches us with the headiness of it all.” —Publishers Weekly