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     Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 2399 Registered: 10-2006 |
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years – Mark Lewisohn A brilliant forearm-testing read, starting with a dense social history of Liverpool, you can almost smell the poverty, when child survival was a lottery. Amazing to see all the required genes locking into place to produce a musical revolution! The author writes with a light touch despite the immense amounts of information he’s dealing with, switching smartly back and forth between the main characters as they grow, with Richy pursuing a sort of parallel but similar course as the other three gradually find their way towards each other in a raggedy but raw city-traversing beat combo. At the moment, about 200 pages in, a friend’s guitar-strumming cousin has already been magically transformed from Ron Wycherley into Billy Fury, Cliff is hitting the bigtime down in London, but there’s still a bit of a struggle ahead for the yet to be fab four. I’m curious to see how Sam Mendes is going to handle all this in his tetralogy, there’s so little you’d want to miss out. Will he adopt four different styles for each member, a different writer and tone? |