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First Fromm International edition. |
| Description |
294 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
One, two, three, four! Fab four tour Deutschland : Hamburg, 1961 / David Wojahn -- From a letter to Ken Horton / Stuart Sutcliffe -- Introduction from The Beatles with Lacan / Henry W. Sullivan -- Hello, goodbye / Stefany Reich-Silber -- Another version of the chair / Greil Marcus -- Portland Coliseum / Allen Ginsberg -- Waiting on the Beatles / Norman Paul Hyett -- Dunraven School, South London, 1964 / Rosalind Brackenbury -- You say you want a revolution / Kay Sloan. |
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You've got to hide your love away. Not a second time / Nancy Fox -- Barbershop / Larry Schug -- Beatle wig / Joyce E. Peseroff -- A hard night's day / Janna Bialek -- Annus mirabilis / Philip Larkin -- Sod Manila! / Eric Gamalinda -- Playland / Richard Foerster -- 489 East 11th, Apt. 3C / Pam Bernard. |
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Relax and float downstream. Thank God for the Beatles / Timothy Leary -- First party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels / Allen Ginsberg -- "Cloud" from The electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe -- The yellow sub / Joseph Wollenweber -- The Beatles in Tonypandy / Euron Griffith. |
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You won't see me. Expatriates / Shelli Jankowski-Smith -- The moment of truth / Terry Watada -- Roots / Mark Halliday -- A different bag / Larry Neal -- He love you (yeah, yeah, yeah) / Hillary Rollins -- Dizzy girls in the sixties / Gary Soto -- America the Beatle-full / Jacques Wakefield. |
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Don't let me down. The endless days of sixties sunshine / Dave Smith -- The girl who sang with the Beatles / Robert Hemenway -- The ballad of Aunt Helen / Timothy McCall -- Mr. Champinoux meets the Beatles / Ellen Zabaly -- The Frisco gigs / Susan Terris -- 1973 / Susan Stemont -- Drive my car / Tobi Taylor -- Timeline / Courtney Davis. |
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What do you see when you turn out the light? The assassination of John Lennon as depicted by the Madame Toussaud Wax Museum / David Wojahn -- Working at Rolling Stone : December 8, 1980 / Lisa Clark -- Liverpool echo / Carol Ann Duffy -- Prologue from Shout! / Philip Norman -- Why I didn't like the Beatles / Priscilla Webster-Williams -- Shake a tail feather / Lisa Williams Kline -- The last Beatlemaniac / Ed Davis -- Following the genius with four heads; or, Why I became a composer / James Russell Smith. |
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And in the end. Introduction to The Beatles / Leonard Bernstein -- I wanna be your man / Robert Sullivan -- Imagine / Laura Gamache -- 1996 / Ellen Kahaner -- from The old life / Donald Hall -- Family reunion / E.J. Miller Laino -- My mother met John Lennon / Robert Wallace -- from The duplex planet / David B. Greenberger -- Beatles 4ever / Chris Bruton -- Splice / E.J. Miller Laino -- When the last Beatle dies / Francine Witte. |
| Summary |
"Fiction, recollections, and poetry in which the Beatles and their songs play a pivotal role, showing how the Beatles have affected us all." Contributors include Greil Marcus, Stefany Reich-Silber, Norman Paul Hyett, Timothy Leary, Robert Sullivan, Tom Wolfe, Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Larkin, Donald Hall, Gary Soto, Philip Norman, and more. |
| Subject |
Beatles -- Literary collections.
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Rock musicians -- Literary collections.
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Rock music -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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English literature -- 20th century.
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Beatles.
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| Added Author |
Cording, Robert.
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Jankowski-Smith, Shelli.
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Laino, E. J. Miller, 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: In my life. 1st Fromm International ed. New York : Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1998 (OCoLC)606954155 |
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Online version: In my life. 1st Fromm International ed. New York : Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1998 (OCoLC)609299128 |
| ISBN |
0880641924 |
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9780880641920 |
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