Register-Citizen correspondent Jack Sheedy spoke to Bramage and Rosenay about their upcoming event in Torrington. Other celebrities Rosenay interviewed for the book include Pete Best, the Beatles’ original drummer radio personality Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow), who introduced the Beatles when they appeared at Shea Stadium in 1965 and even Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, who said he used to work out to “Silly Love Songs.” And so Elliot Easton lists his top 10 favorite middle eights.” And that was one of the geniuses of their compositions. You'll be throwing that one part of the song that wasn’t really part of the song but fits in perfectly. “The Beatles will always have that part, ‘Oh, this girl will be happy’ (in 'This Boy'). “A normal song is verse, verse, chorus, verse, chorus,” Rosenay said. That last topic was what Elliot Easton, lead guitarist for The Cars, chose to include in the book. His book is a list of lists by 64 celebrities discussing their favorite Beatles tunes, concerts, memories and, yes, middle eights. An enthralling book for any Beatles fan (tons more fodder for trivia challenges: which songs have only two Beatles playing on them? what did Paul buy John for his 21st birthday?) or child of the 1960s.Rosenay said a middle eight typically occurs near the middle of a song and lasts about eight bars. Harrison is especially honest about drugs, McCartney remains somewhat coy. Lennon always had the image of the working-class rebel, but even in the 1960s, he often sat docile for the stupid things the Beatles were expected to be and do, while Harrison sometimes said, "I don't have to do that." The book is especially illuminating for the period of touring Britain in 1963 between their first EMI sessions and heading to the U.S. For someone who has read the Hunter Davies, Philip Norman, _Lennon Remembers_, _Apple to the Core_, _A Hard Day's Write_ and other accounts, perhaps the biggest surprise of this version is how sharp and independent George Harrison is (and was). Extensive print and broadcast interviews with Lennon are woven seamlessly into the mix, and there are contributions from some of the other players - e.g., George Martin, Neil Aspinall, Derek Taylor.
A huge coffee-table size history of the Beatles, chockful of hundreds of photographs, color and black and white, with text consisting solely of interviews with and commentary by the lads themselves.
In more ways than one, the BIG bestseller of 2000.
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