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Future plc is a public Chief executive Zillah Byng-Thorne company quoted on the Non-executive chairman Richard Huntingford London Stock Exchange Chief financial officer Penny Ladkin-Brand (symbol: FUTR) www.futureplc.com Tel +44 (0)1225 442 244 mages Getty I Wahlborg/ Martin mage I CONTENTS THE FAB FOUR BEATLEMANIA 10 John, Paul, George and Ringo 28 Please Please Me 50 Help! 14 Meet The Beatles 32 With The Beatles 54 Shea Stadium 16 The Early Years 36 T he Show That 56 Honoured by the Queen Broke America 20 The Cavern Club 58 Rubber Soul 38 A Hard Day’s Night 22 The Fifth Beatle 66 Revolver 44 Beatles for Sale THE STUDIO YEARS END OF THE ROAD 74 S gt Pepper’s Lonely 100 T he Singles Hearts Club Band 124 The Split 106 A bbey Road Studios 80 T he Sgt Pepper 126 What The Beatles Did Next magesBettmann/Getty Images (main); GAB Archive/Redferns/Getty mages (badge); Fox Photos/Getty Images (waving); Fox Photos/Getty mages (fans); Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (performing) 889028 TTCTB orhhhnieeeac BWnBe peeEhtaaiptttslleeet sseA il(onbanu kFmai) l m 1 1 1120608 AL TGeebhttbe e IBByta e BRcaketolaeds: 113364 TRheme eBmeabetlreisn’g LJeoghanc yand George III 6 CONTENTS 7 CHAPTER 1 8 THE FAB FOUR FAB FOUR THE 10 John, Paul, George and Ringo 14 Meet The Beatles 16 The Early Years 20 The Cavern Club 22 The Fifth Beatle mages Getty I mage/ Jeff Hochberg/Icon and Image I 9 CHAPTER 1 JOHN LENNON Peacenik. Agent provocateur. Angry young man. The Beatles legend has a thousand faces, but the real John Lennon is right there in his songs I n December 1970, John Lennon was asked by Rolling Stone magazine if he considered himself a genius. The former Beatle’s reply – “If there’s such a thing, I am one” – might seem conceited, but to say anything else would have been ludicrous. If the term can be applied to anyone in the pantheon, then it must surely be bestowed on the man who broke down the limits of what popular music could say and do, who wrote ‘Help!’, ‘Don’t Let Me Down’, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, ‘A Day in the Life’, ‘Come Together’ and all the rest. Lennon was an easy artist to worship but a harder man to love. Born at Liverpool Maternity Hospital on 9 October 1940, the singer, by his own admission, had a cruel streak as a youth, and that fed into his Beatles career, where he was the barbed counterpoint to Paul McCartney’s optimism “I BELIEVE IN WHAT I DO, and the author of the band’s most biting songs. As his highest-proﬁle acolyte, AND I’LL SAY IT.” Noel Gallagher, pointed out, Lennon “had an edge”, whether that was baiting the American Bible Belt with his claims that JOHN LENNON the band were “more popular than Jesus” or sabotaging McCartney’s upbeat ‘Getting Better’ with his gallows-humour asides (“It LEFT Lennon as ABOVE “If being an egomaniac a boy, pictured means I believe in what I do and can’t get no worse.”) aged nine with in my art or music, then in that In early years, Lennon played the tough his mother, respect you can call me that… I Julia Lennon. believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” rock ’n’ roller, driving The Beatles’ covers- heavy sets with his pumped-up, highly underrated rhythm guitar style (“I’m not ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, nodding to a reach those heights – but perhaps it might very good technically,” he noted, “but I can childhood when Lennon already knew he have done were it not for the shocking make it howl and move.”) But with maturity, was ‘different’. The retooled Mississippi incident of 8 December 1980, when the Lennon’s musicianship developed light and blues of ‘Come Together’. The mind- songwriter was gunned down in New York shade, while his best songs became open- expanding ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, on aged 40. But even death couldn’t snuff out hearted and hugely evocative, mirroring a which Lennon had told George Martin his legend. Lennon still looms over every kinder man who decried the Vietnam War he wanted to sound “like the Dalai Lama aspirant songwriter, stares from every and called for peace. There was the haunted singing from the highest mountain top”. student wall and is cited by every artist piano melody and newspaper-clipping lyric With the arguable exception of ‘Imagine’, who matters. ‘Genius’ is the only word that of ‘A Day in the Life’. The woozy throb of Lennon’s post-Beatles output couldn’t quite doesn’t fall short. 10