1957-1962
“The story began in Harold Macmillan’s “never had it so good” ’50s Britain. It should be fiction: four teenagers with no more than eight O’Levels between them, running and biking and busing and busking all over Liverpool in search of new chords and old guitars and half-decent drum kit and any gig at all.
They were determined to amount to something – in George’s words “we just had this amazing inner feeling of: ‘We’re going to do it’. I don’t know why... we were just cocky” – and make a record (in Ringo’s words you’d kill for that bit of plastic and make some money and have a laugh and shout. That would do to be going on with.
Six years later, they were the four most famous and musical men on earth, the best dressed and on a good day the most captivating people anyone can remember. The narrative that began where Paul met John and clicked at a garden fete in leafy Liverpool, and ended in high dudgeon in high-end London, is so far fetched that it needs the power of a song punctuating every page to remind you with a joyous jolt that it was all true.
We didn’t dream it... though it came out of John’s dream of the “man on a flaming pie” who said “You are Beatles with an ‘A’”. It did all happen. The whole wonderful thing did happen, a long time ago, on the Mersey, on the Elbe, by the Thames and the Hudson River.
Amazing and marvellous and, nearly forty years on, forever young.
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Hair peace 1969 on 14th Jan 12:
“Brian Epstien said the Beatles would be bigger than Elvis Presley. And boy was he right.”
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Anna_95 on 16th Dec 11:
“The Beatles Changed Music!!!!”
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divbeatles_fans on 16th Dec 11:
“wawww! love you all beatles, paul, ringo, john, and also george... :)”
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themoptopwalrus on 14th Dec 11:
“Sometimes, I forget that they're even real.”
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Silver Florin Beatle on 12th Dec 11:
“From Skiffle to Psychadelic rock; Who would've thought?”
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BeatlesLover:) on 9th Dec 11:
“They were the best... They have changed the pop music! :)”
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elanorrigby on 28th Oct 11:
“The Beatles Changed Music!!!”
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John Lennon562 on 16th Oct 11:
“This is awsome!”
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jillc on 9th Oct 11:
“If anyone visits Liverpool make sure you take a tour of their old haunts. Really well organised and interesting.”
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lovethebeatlesalot on 8th Oct 11:
“the river is just beginning which is the beatles and their music”
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