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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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 comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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.’

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.One Two Three Four

From the bestselling author of comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.Ma’am DarlingOne Two Three Four


Author:

  • Craig Brown

Narrators:

  • Mark McGann
  • Kate Robbins

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 20 h 26 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Biographies
  • Arts and entertainment
  • History
  • Great occurrences and events

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    Craig Brown

    Craig Brown has been writing the parodic celebrity diary for since 1989. He has written for a widevariety of publications, including the , the , the and the . His books include , which won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and , which won the James Tait Black award.

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