SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary
Winner of Winners award WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A
Spectator Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A
Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year From
the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of
Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic
biography of the Fab Four. John Updike compared them to ‘the sun
coming out on an Easter morning’. Bob Dylan introduced them to
drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised
them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them.
Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them ‘little
sissies’. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one
has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen
Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, ‘Think
what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.’ One
Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements
that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George)
and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate
tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit,
among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen
Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic
dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman
Pilcher. From the bestselling author of Ma’am Darling comes a
kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries,
autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists,
charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four
joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.
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