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What a great thread! Nice one Chris....The Beatles were a band at the end of the day and humoured themselves as such I feel. 'In' jokes betwen bands is a very important part of writing for a group that cuts the mustard. The Beatles have always inspired me that way. Lyrics should be ambigious in the sense that more people draw their own meanings. All a band can really achieve in a bigger sense is to reach peoples conscience.....I love The Beatles. What a balance they had.
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yes..@ dmbeatles, the Fab are respected, dissected,inspected,never negleted or corrected, collated,annotated, never repudiated...but MOST OF ALL, loved and listened to..
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nice wordplay..Very right-eous. ....As in good righteous.
I just came across a newish book about John, "Shoulda Been There," by Jude Kessler. It is historical fiction and supposedly based on twenty years of research.
Here is a link to an excerpt about John and Cyn in 1958:
The writer really breathes some fresh life into a by now familiar story. I also have to give her credit for getting Cynthia's perceived rival, Helen Anderson's personality spot on.
I once spent an afternoon at Ms. Anderson's home in suburban Liverpool, talking about her college days with John and Cynthia, for a project that I was working on. She was so gracious and charming. The lady put me at ease and showed me some warm Liverpool hospitality.
I look forward to reading Ms. Kessler's book. The cover photo was taken by Astrid.
Hi, Jude Kessler here! Thanks for the kind words, Ligger. I know the book release date is a bit confusing. It was copyrighted as a manuscript in 1994, but the book was actually only released the day before Thanksgiving in November (2007). It's been out for about 4 and a half months now.
I started the book in 1986 and did secondary research by building a 300 plus volume Beatle library in my home. But 1993, I knew I HAD to go to Liverpool if I wanted to do the book justice. I spent the next 7 years traveling back and forth to Liverpool to interview Bob Wooler, Allan Williams, June Furlong, Rod Murray, Colin Fallows, Joe Flannery, and on and on...And then spent years actually writing and rewriting the work.
It's unique...it reads like a novel, but each chapter is footnoted and has end notes which discuss the discrepancies in the non-fiction biographer's accounts of that particular event. It even has a Scouse glossary and an encyclopedia of the real characters in the book with bios of each.
There's a review of it on beatlelinks.net and one on daytrippin.com if y'wanna check it out.
And on my site, ontherockbooks.com, you can read a sample chapter, too.
I'd be glad to answer any questions about the book for anyone. I'll check back in tomorrow night to see if anyone has replied.
Thanks again for the kind words...I really appreciate it!
I'll also be glad to give any member of this site free shipping in addition to the $5 off sale on the book right now. Just e-mail me at kesslerjude@yahoo.com and tell me you are a member of this forum.
Absolultey! I've shipped to the UK, Finland, Western Autstralia...here, there, and everywhere! It generally costs about $20 to ship it, so I'd knock $10 off the price of the book (instead of the $5 its on sale for now) to help defray that cost. So, if you're interested in paying $40 including the shipping, I could just send you a "bill" via PayPal, and we could do it that way. Just let me know.
The new project is slow because I'm speaking somewhere daily on Shoulda. This morning I'm off to speak to the Advertising Council. It takes so much time. But I'm trying to work about 10 hours a week on the new book...I'll do much more once the "new" has worn off of this one.
BTW, if you're going to be in Liverpool for Beatle Week, I'll be there with the book.
Thanks so much for your interest! I really apprecaite it and I'll work with you any way that I can.
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