The Beatles - All these Years: The Complete Story: Volume 1: Tune In

Zusatztext 41135178 Informationen zum Autor MARK LEWISOHN is the acknowledged world authority on the Beatles. His books include the bestselling and influential  Beatles Recording Sessions and Complete Beatles Chronicle . He has been a consultant and researcher on all aspects—TV! DVDs! CDs and book—of the Beatles' own Anthology and has been involved in numerous additional projects for them as well as independent works like this one. Married with two children! he lives in England. Klappentext Tune In is the first volume of All These Years-a highly-anticipated! groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon! Paul McCartney! George Harrison! and Ringo Starr. Ten years in the making! Tune In takes the Beatles from before their childhoods through the final hour of 1962-when! with breakthrough success just days away! they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of fame and celebrity. They've one hit record ("Love Me Do") behind them and the next ("Please Please Me") primed for release! their first album session is booked! and America is clear on the horizon. This is the lesser-known Beatles story-the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg-and in many respects the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. Here is the complete and true account of their family lives! childhoods! teenage years and their infatuation with American music! here is the riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and nights in the Cavern Club! their laughs! larks and adventures when they could move about freely! before fame closed in. For those who've never read a Beatles book before! this is the place to discover the young men behind the icons. For those who think they know John! Paul! George! and Ringo! it's time to press the Reset button and tune into the real story! the lasting word. One 1845-1945 IN MY LIVERPOOL HOME The significance of the location was unknown to those present that murky day in 1962 when four lads stood in front of a huge tea warehouse by Liverpool's dock road, having photos taken to publicize their first record. John Lennon certainly had no idea that the clearing of land on Saltney Street on which he was standing was where his family began their life in the city, just a few among the hordes of starving and mostly illiterate Irish fleeing the potato famine in their homeland. At least one and a half million stricken Irish men, women and children sailed into Liverpool between 1845 and 1854. Plenty traveled on again, to America, Canada, Mexico and Australia, but a vast number stayed and few of those went very far: Saltney Street was hard by the docks of this great global seaport, ocean liners steaming up and down the River Mersey right at the end of the street. It's still there today, though the horrors of its cholera-infested housing have been swept away. In Liverpool, history is everywhere you look. JOHN LENNON--family background James Lennon was the first to put down roots. Born about 1829 in County Down, one of the nine counties to form the province of Ulster, he was married in 1849 on Scotland Road, the slum-ridden heart of Liverpool's immigrant Catholic community. He fathered at least eight children before his wife died in the act of delivering another, and probably the third of these, in January 1855, was John Lennon, grandfather. John (sometimes Jack) Lennon grew into an intelligent, happy-go-lucky soul who sang loud and often in alehouses, worked mostly as a freight clerk, and led an intriguing life of mysteries, dead ends and deceptions. After marrying twice, his longest relationship was with a Protestant woman, Mary "Polly" Maguire. Their first seven babies all died, and of the seven that followed, the fifth was Alfred Lenno...

Product details

• Authors: Mark Lewisohn
• Assisted by: Sean Desmond (Editor)
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781400083053
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-8305-3
• No. of pages: 944
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 240 mm x 46 mm
• Series: Crown Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music