Author Steven Gaines who co-wrote the book “The Love You Make” with Peter Brown, the longtime Beatles associate, has disclosed that he has numerous hours of unreleased interviews from his research conducted for the original best-selling book from the 1980’s. Steven has expressed the desire to be able to eventually leave the actual audio tapes to a research based institution like a university library or a museum.
This book seems to be a bonus release for Beatles historians to use as research source material. It also creates the unique opportunity for a book that deals with the creation of a best-seller which was also a biography that was tinged with controversy upon it’s release. Having the full transcribed interviews rather than an author’s editorial choice of what to print from the interviews can help to lend credibility to the conjectures presented by an author writing a biography. For researchers of the future having access to the actual audio interviews from these tapes would also be fascinating because one’s tone of voice often adds credibility to what one is saying, or often it strips that credibility away. History’s best-selling musical entertainers deserve the most accurate portrayal possible.
This is Steven’s partial list of the audio interviews that he has transcribed and will be publishing in the book. Perhaps the complete interviews with these individuals will help to shed some distinct credibility to those who criticized the authors for relying on controversy to sell the original book.
The tapes are approximately 80 hours of interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, and their families, friends and business associates. The tapes were recorded in 1980-1981 during the preparation of the international bestseller, “The Love You Make.”The full transcription of these interviews have never been seen by the public.
Here is the partial list of the tape archive that the April 2024 release contains the transcribed interviews of the participants with:Brian Epstein (from a tape discovered in the closet of Nat Weiss, it’s only one paragraph)
Paul McCartney
Alistair Taylor
Queenie Epstein
Nat Weiss
Alistair Taylor on Brian’s Death
Peter Brown on Brian’s Death
Allan Williams
Bob Wooler
Dick James
Geoffrey Ellis
Peter Brown on Manila
Vic Lewis
George Harrison
Alexis Mardas
Peter Brown on Maharishi
Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton and Jenny Boyd Fleetwood
Neil Aspinall
David Puttnam
Martin Polden
Peter Brown on Apple
Alistair Taylor on Apple
Derek Taylor
Peter Brown on “Hey Jude”
Robert Fraser
Ray Connolly
John Dunbar
Cynthia Lennon Twist
Ron Kass on Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
May Pang
Peter Brown on Allen Klein
Dick James II
Ron Kass
John Eastman
Alistair Taylor on Allen Klein Having Him Fired
Allen Klein
Maureen Starkey
Ringo Starr
US COVER TO THE APRIL 2024 RELEASE OF THE BOOK
All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle Hardcover – April 9, 2024
by Peter Brown (Author) Steven Gaines (Author) Published by St. Martin’s Press
UK COVER TO THE BOOK
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles – An Oral History by Those Who Were There Hardcover – 11 April 2024
Published by Monoray
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All You Need Is LoveDid you read “The Love You Make”? What did you make of it? Let me know in the comments below.
Buzz
The Love You Make was deserving of all the innovatory plaudits later going to Philip Norman’s ‘Shout’ although it held its own as literally unputdownable. Best Beatle biog by a country mile and has the dirt in abundance.