6/25/2023 0 Comments The beatles anthology book![]() ![]() Prerelease hype and hoopla aside, The Beatles Anthology is a startlingly magnificent book. None of this would prepare us for the keen - almost manic - interest in The Beatles Anthology, the book that was already roaring to bestseller status prior to its October 5th debut, released just a few days before what would have been John Lennon's 60th birthday. The Beatles were The Beatles: no substitutions accepted.Īnd it's all so long ago now, isn't it? The only people that can possibly remember the first faint stirrings from Liverpool are either middle-aged, old or dead. You couldn't, for instance, pull a Van Halen and replace your David Lee Roth as required. Where there had been a Fab Four, there was now just a sad three and that really wasn't the same. But, of course, the single thing that had been possible until the time of Lennon's death that became impossible in an instant was The Beatles' reunion tour. Likewise, the world was deprived of an unthinking amount of future photo ops: Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono had always provided fodder for the cameras of the paparazzi. ![]() ![]() Certainly, the light of a genius was senselessly snuffed out, arguably, in its prime. There are people who will tell you that, for them, the world of music would never be the same. Review | The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesĪ lot of things happened on the day late in 1980 that John Lennon died. ![]()
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