{"id":317,"date":"2025-02-08T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=317"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:21:34","slug":"all-you-need-is-love-the-beatles-in-their-own-words-by-peter-brown-and-steven-gaines-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"All You Need is Love: The Beatles in their Own Words<\/i> by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AllI didn’t begrudge Peter Brown the 1983 book The Love You Make<\/em>\u00a0as I figure that a Beatles insider gets a chance to make some money off the association. THIS book, however, is just a compilation of the source interviews done for the book.<\/p>\n

It’s sparingly typeset, and they couldn’t be bothered to make a real index or hyperlink the footnotes, or at least put the footnotes at the end of every interview section.\u00a0 I also don’t think much of Steven Gaines as a coauthor…the projects he’s involved in tend to be “sensational”. (This was true of the published 1983 book.)<\/p>\n

With all of those negatives, three things were apparent to sum up this aired research.<\/p>\n

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  1. They had an axe to grind, or at least a theory\/thread they wanted credence for, against “Magic Alex”(Alexis Mardas). He comes up a LOT in their questions, much more than I would say he’s a part of their story.<\/li>\n
  2. Maureen Starkey must have been a lovely person.<\/li>\n
  3. Allen Klein really comes off as an unlikable character.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Unless you are a Beatles fanatic, skip this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I didn’t begrudge Peter Brown the 1983 book The Love You Make\u00a0as I figure that a Beatles insider gets a chance to make some money off the association. THIS book, however, is just a compilation of the source interviews done for the book. It’s sparingly typeset, and they couldn’t be bothered to make a real … Continue reading “All You Need is Love: The Beatles in their Own Words<\/i> by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines (2024)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,30],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-take","tag-60s-music","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}