Posted on 22/02/202408/07/2024 by Buzz — 1 Comment

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE – THE LOVE YOU MAKE!!!

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

You can pre-order the book at Amazon now! Click the link below:

All You Need Is Love

Did you read “The Love You Make”? What did you make of it? Let me know in the comments below.

Buzz

Posted on 14/02/202408/07/2024 by Buzz — Leave a comment

LIMITED EDITION SGT PEPPER BOOK

I just got this note from Alex Franchi about a new Sgt Pepper book. I love these independently produced books that highlight items acquired by collectors for their personal collections over the years. Part of the attraction of these books is the very few copies that are actually made and years later they become increasingly more difficult to find and somewhat akin to the feeling of being in a treasure hunt!

Here is Alex’s note:

THE BEATLES – THE SGT. PEPPER’S ERA
by Fulvio Fiore and Alex Franchi
(295 pages, Isla Publishing)

This is the fourth chapter in a successful new series of photographic publications retracing the myth of the Liverpool quartet in the international printed paper weekly. 1967 was a fantastic and a very innovative year for the Fab Four!!!
Rare newspapers, promotional posters, charts, rare covers relating to record publications, charts, and other international press finds. Much of the material from the authors’ personal collection is unpublished or rarely seen before testifying a collecting interest which, after more than 50 years, has not shown signs of decreasing, indeed… Available in a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies:

A SPLENDID TIME IS GUARANTEED FOR ALL!

Enjoy the previews and contact Alex Franchi to get a copy Soundlover30@hotmail.com

The cover of the book:

A few sample pages:

The real Sgt Pepper as speculated by a newspaper

The back cover

Posted on 07/02/202428/06/2024 by Buzz — 2 Comments

COME AND GET IT IF YOU WANT IT

A MAGIC CHRISTIAN MYSTERY and BEATLE CONNECTIONS GALORE

According to reports, this version of the Paul McCartney song was released around the same time as the Apple Badfinger version. The Magic Christian version was not a hit. Produced by the late keyboardist, Gary Wright, who was to back both George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their solo careers.

Ex-Move guitarist Trevor Burton was supposedly involved with this recording and speculation abounds that Denny Laine and Steve Gibbons also played a role in the record. I believe Beatles associate Tony Bramwell has mentioned at one time that Denny Laine had a role in this recording. I was able to find a copy of this recording at the DISCOGS site. Some of the 45’s issued had the song title listed as “If You Want It” rather than “Come and Get It.” The first pressings had the publisher listed as Apple. Later copies had the publisher listed as Northern Songs!

A different title is used on this McCartney tune as well as having a different publisher listed.

If You Want It by The Magic Christians

THE MAGIC CHRISTIANS

There is another connection. The Magic Christians were supposedly made up of some of the members of the group Balls which included Denny Laine who was with the Moody Blues and later with Wings and the flip side of one of the 45’s by Balls was written by both Denny Laine and Alan White who was to join the Plastic Ono Band and later the group Yes. Alan and Denny both passed away a while back. Because of the scarcity of a Denny Laine/ Alan White co-authored track and the multiple solo Beatles and McCartney connections, I bought a copy of the 45 at the Discogs site.

BALLS

This is the rare Denmark picture sleeve to the Balls 45 which contains the obscure Denny Laine/ Alan White co-authored track called “Janie Slow Down.” Odd that Denny Laine would play with Wings and Alan White would end up being in a band with John Lennon and also backing George Harrison!

Here is a brief history of the group Balls provided by this internet link:

Balls, a Birmingham supergroup of the 1960s (brumbeat.net)

Balls also did an Apple acetate of the song “Fight For My Country.”

Great Book About Badfinger

Posted on 04/02/202408/07/2024 by Buzz — Leave a comment

EASY RIDER WITH A LENNON MAGAZINE IN THE HOPPER

REBELS WITH A CAUSE “GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN”

I recently obtained the late actor Dennis Hopper’s copy of this magazine featuring Mr. Lennon and Miss Ono on the cover. The issue of the magazine is from 1969. Got it for a very reasonable price, on eBay!

EBay description of the item fiba: Actualite, Issue #1, 1969. Side-stapled, 56 pgs. Includes articles on Turkish & Greek cinema, the fiba award for best films (8-page section on winning films No5 & Two Virgins by Yoko Ono, with brief article by Ono), poem by Lionel Ziprin, Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet, and more. From a collection of publications obtained from the estate of Dennis Hopper.

There are a couple of Beatle/Lennon connections with the late Dennis Hopper. He co-starred with Peter Fonda in Easy Rider and Fonda turned out to be the inspiration for the Beatles tune, “She Said, She Said.” The late Terry Southern, who helped to co-write the screenplay for “Easy RIder” also wrote “The Magic Christian” and “Candy,” which were film vehicles for Ringo Starr. Terry Southern also taped an hour-long cassette of John Lennon jamming with Mick Jagger during the “Lost Weekend.”

Dennis Hopper

Background of Dennis Hopper from Wikipedia–Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director. He is known for his roles as mentally disturbed outsiders and rebels.
Hopper made his directorial film debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with Terry Southern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Hopper was also in a few films associated with another prominent rebel, James Dean, “Rebel Without a Cause” and “Giant”!

Posted on 26/01/202428/06/2024 by Buzz — Leave a comment

A WONDERFUL NON-BEATLES BOOK WITH A “BEATLE” AND A “STONE” ON THE COVER

I bought this wonderful non-Beatles book of photographs a while back by noted photographer Ron Galella.

Mr. Galella was well known for being persistent in following and taking photos of many famous celebrities, many whom often did not want to be photographed, leading to what certainly can be termed as “iconic photos.”

Galella notes in the book that 2 of his best-selling photos that he ever shot were the cover of this book shown here which is my copy of the book that I recently purchased. One is of cultural icons Mick Jagger and John Lennon with companion May Pang taken at a Jimmy Cagney Lifetime tribute in 1974 (March 13th, 1974, in Los Angeles) during the famous “Lost Weekend.” The other photo Mr. Galella mentions is the one of the widow of assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jackie, who was later to marry Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, (outside her NY apartment on Oct 7, 1971.) (Not shown here)

One thing I have noticed over the years as a collector is the incredible surface naivety of the individual Beatles in not being able to realize the full extent the admiration that other celebrities and well-known personalities had for THEM. John in particular was often overwhelmed when he would be at a Hollywood party as to how the famous actors and actresses would swarm around the Beatles vying for their attention.

The book was self-published by Mr. Galella in 2021 and presents many candid shots of so many well-known people which was an apparent Galella modus operandi and specialty during his great career.

Recommend this one for your collections so you can share in the roving eye talents of the famous Ron Galella!

My copy of the wonderful book of photos by Ron Galella:

Do you like photo books? Do you have a favourite photographer? Let me know in the comments below.