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ArtsBeat: Beatles’ Biographer Donates Song Manuscripts to British Library
Hunter Davies, the prolific British writer whose 1968 biography of the Beatles – “The Beatles: The Authorized Biography” – offered a close-up and detailed, if somewhat sanitized, portrait of the group while it was still together and at the height of its from International Herald Tribune Read more »
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Beatle droppings not for sale
A collection of tattered scraps of paper, some picked up half a century ago from the floor of the Abbey Road recording studios before they were thrown away as rubbish, now valued at just under £1m, have been presented to the nation by the Beatles biograp from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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The Beatles started a revolution back in the USSR
If ever a band has been well served by the literary world it's The Beatles. Practically every aspect of that revolutionary body of work has been dealt with in book form... or so one would have thought. From Hunter Davies' The Beatles, through Philip Norm from Dublin Evening Herald Read more »
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The Fan
Hunter Davies' "The Fan" column appears weekly in the New Statesman magazine. If any 1913 football fans were to come back today, they would be able to enjoy the game, admire the speed and skills, and would understand when a goal was scored, for the objec from New Statesman Read more »
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Why ‘gay’ John Lennon liked Yoko Ono
WHAT did John Lennon see in Yoko Ono? In The Beatles, Football And Me, Hunter Davies wrote about Lennon’s relationship with Brian Epstein, the band’s manager. They went to Spain together. Writes Davies: “John wasn’t a homosexual, but he was daft enough t from Anorak Read more »
