All You Need Is Love - New Book by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines about The Beatles
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2024
- When "The Love You Make" was published in the 1980s, it was called "polarising"! Now, 40 years later, Steven Gaines and Peter Brown have dusted off the tapes and published the transcripts of the over 100 hours of interviews they did for The Love You Make.
This new book features full interviews - cutting out the boring bits! - and is a treasure trove of first-hand eyewitness interviews with those closest to The Beatles. With the the help of Beatles insider Peter Brown, Gaines was able to interview those closest to the Beatles story, including Paul, George and Ringo, between September and November 1980. Sadly, John Lennon was killed weeks before he was due to be interviewed.
In this remarkable interview, Steven Gaines reveals some of the stories behind those interviews.
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Ill have to get this book. I read "The Love You Make" a couple years after it came out, because my mother had bought it (thank you Mom). It opened my eyes to a lot, but it also got me back into The Beatles in a huge way. Havent looked back since.
Excellent, glad you enjoyed it so much.
David is a die-hard and devoted investigator, and his passion is admirable - a pleasure for us Beatles fans to see him digging up the details we need to understand this phenomenon. My start into their story was my Mum plucking the Eight-Days-A-Week-single from the shelf next to the check-out-till of a Swiss supermarket while waiting in line (so that was not only the spot to address kids with an abundance of luring sweets). She turned that into a habit for a year or two until the material became a little less appealing to her generation, but All You Need Is Love still made the cut, from whereon I had to work out things by myself. David obviously has this love for what he is talking about and I'd like to thank him a lot for sharing all this with us! I'll stay on board...
Thank you so much, it is appreciated. I love to share my passion with fellow fans. David
A brilliant interview Dave some great stories a fabulous listen thanks for sharing ! Will have to get his book he seems a real genuine fella and wanting to give the tapes away incredible ! 👍👍🎸😎🎸 BB (👍26 )
Amazing that he wanted to give them away, yet nobody wanted them! I'd have had them!!! It was great fun to do and he was a really nice guy. Glad you enjoyed it mate. 😊
"It was a fake mustache" right there on the book cover
There is an interview with George Harrison from the 1980's that's on youtube where the interviewer says John wasn't an angel and George said well he was.
Those who knew John knew he was no angel - who in rock n roll is or was?
I also met two people and know a third one who saw The Beatles in concert, one woman and one man who were my high school teachers one who saw them in 1966,and one who saw them in 1965 and the other is my second cousin who saw them at the Baltimore Coliseum when she was 16 in 1964, a year before I was even born and she became a psychologist. They all told me that they were close enough to them to see and hear the The Beatles and that they were great.
I'm sure that when teenage girls listened to The Beatles records and songs on the radio most of them weren't screaming,they knew what their music sounded like and they loved it.
The Beach Boys were mostly a pop band I have never heard anything rocking from them.Even fans of theirs mention how their 1976 cover (when recording technology was better than in 1964 when The Beatles recorded their version) have said how un rocking and slow their version is, The Beatles version is fast and rocking which is fitting for the name of the song.
And even the early Beatles songs like She Loves You,I Saw Her Standing There,You Can't Do That,Can't Buy Me Love etc sound like hard rock compared to what was on the radio in 1963 and early 1964 such as Bobby Vinton,The Four Seasons,Bobby Darren and The Beach Boys teen beach surfing hits.I know this even though I wasn't even born yet.
Done a great interview with a lady who saw the Beatles and was determined to meet George Harrison. Look it up in our Ed Sullivan playlist.
Good interviewee. I already have 'All You Need Is Love' 1st edition. So the key Q is how much is duplication in the expanded book? I know this features unexpurgated quotes sampled from hours of tapes. But how much of this is new material unpublished in the 1st ed? For example, half of the expanded edition of TUNE IN is what I already had with the 1st edition of Tune In.
The Love You Make was a narrative that included the interviews, whereas this is a collection of interviews, with a chapter for each one, so it is easier to follow in the interviewees own words. Worth it for that in my opinion. There is some new content too.
The expanded edition of Tune In is actually the first edition of the book, but at first it was only available (for the most part) in England. Only the shortened version was available in United States book stores upon the time of the initial publication.
I wonder who has his beach boys tapes as well? That’s another incredible resource for historical research. An excellent book too by the way “Heroes and villains “ well worth checking out. He seems to have the last interviews with Dennis Wilson before he drowned in 1983.
Yes, that is a great book. 👍
What another incredible story the Beach Boys were.
John actually put Yoko in a terrible hard position because I'm sure that if Yoko said she wasn't going to the studio with him, then John would have not gone either because he said that he wanted to be with her all of the time and then the great White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be wouldn't have been quite the same.
I think John had Yoko there for physical and moral support and I agree he probably wouldn't have turned up!
Just a question: the new book says Ringo was engaged to a girl called Elsie Greaves when he met Maureen. But in "Tune In" Lewisohn says Ringo's mother's maiden name was Elsie Gleave. Lewisohn says Ringo was engaged to a girl called Gerry McGovern in 1961 but it ended.
It was definitely Geraldine McGovern.
Thanks, David. I figured there was some name confusion there!
@@Susan-gr2xd Often the way Susan
In a great 2011 article about Goldmine Magazine's readers poll voted The Beatles The Best Overall, The Song Writing Team Of Lennon and McCartney And the author of this article Gillian Gaar says what I have always said and pointed out,that as early as December 1963 music critic of The London Times William Mann called John Lennon and Paul McCartney the outstanding English composers of 1963 and he analyzed and praised the clever,unusual complex chords they wrote even in their early songs like She Loves you etc.
And In this article it also says that in December 1963 in the same issue the the classical music critic of The London Times ( Hunter Davies says in his great 1968 only authorized Beatles biography called,The Beatles which he updated several times that it was classical music critic Richard Buckle) who called John and Paul the 2 greatest composers since Beethoven after they composed music for a ballet ,Mods and Rockers.
Gillian Garr also says what I have always said, that John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote songs at such a prodigious rate in 1963 and 1964 that they supplied numerous other artists with hit songs as well as looking after the interests of their own group.
He doesn't mention the music artists they wrote for in 1963,Billy J.Kramer and The Dakotas, Celia Black,Peter and Gordon and the rock n roll song I Wanna Be Your Man for The Rolling Stones which became one of their first hits. From Me To You,and especially She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand were praised by some music critics even from the beginning, like William Mann of The London Times in December 1963 pointed out their interesting unusual chords and arrangements.
And London Times music critic Richard Buckle also in late 1963 called John and Paul the greatest composers since Beethoven after they wrote the music for a play Mods and Rockers. Bob Dylan ,Roger McGuinn of The Byrds as early as 1963 and 1964 pointed out that even in early Beatles songs like She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand had unusual and interesting chords and how they arranged them.
Roger also has said that The Beatles unusually used folk rock chords in their rock n roll music and that they invented folk rock without even realizing it. In an article about The Beatles chords,Bob Dylan is quoted saying what he thought in early 1964 about The early Beatles music,he said that they were doing things nobody was doing and that their chords were outrageous,just outrageous and their harmonies made it all valid.
In Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Song Writers Bob Dylan is number 1,Paul McCartney is number 2, and John Lennon is number 3, Bob Dylan is quoted about a car trip when he heard a lot of Beatles songs on the radio, he said they were doing things that nobody else was doing musically and that he knew they were pointing the direction where music had to go.
Dylan was never a better songwriter in my opinion. John and Paul are head and shoulders above any other songwriter.
Thank goodness we have these tapes from 1980. That alone makes the book incredibly valuable. It’s clear Philip Norman and Hunter Davies only scratched the surface in their books. Also the timing is incredibly important. Before December 1980 John was not the murdered Beatle saint. And the interviews were conducted right before that. So you got more of a balanced picture of him. My only issue with the original book was some of the statements were a bit over the top. I seem to remember Alister Taylor laughing at a comment in the book. That John was stoned or high every day of his adult life. As Alister pointed out where did he find the time then to write his book and his songs and do all the other work he did ! Lol
You definitely need a wide variety of books to get as close to the whole story. This book's timing was perfect, because it was before John's sad murder.
The early Beatles *were* a rock and roll band and a great one and not mostly a pop group! The Rolling Stones actually wore matching suits and ties with similar hair styles in 1963 and early 1964 too until their manager had them not wear them anymore and created their fake ''bad boy image'', so did Buddy Holly and The Crickets, The Shadows,The Beach Boys wore shirts with big matching stripes and matching suits and ties, The Moody Blues wore them until 1967 a year after The Beatles stopped, and even the blues rock and roll band Eric Burden And The Animals did and there are online pictures and videos of all of them dressed this way.
And actually The Beatles hair styles was considered very long in 1964 and 1965 because most young men had army crew cuts and they were almost bald. And one of the many all too common myths is that Brian Epstein created The early Beatles hair cuts.
But it was Jurgen Vollmer who cut their hair that way almost a year before they even met their manager Brian Epstein and Jurgen was one of the first of three intellectual Beatles fans and friends of theirs, they met who would go and see them playing live in the clubs in Hamburg Germany. Jurgen had worn his hair that way since he was a teenager.
This was about a year before they even met Brian and it was when they were still playing 8 hours a night in the sleazy strip clubs of Hamburg Germany from 1960-1962 and they had to take speed pills to stay awake to do it. Then they played live in their local Cavern Club in Liverpool for several years.
And by the time they wrote,recorded and played live on their first album lease Please Me amazingly only in just one day, they had 1000's of hours of live playing experience. And then they played live all around the world from 1963-1966.
Thank you for your great comments. 👍
In an All Music Guide review of The Beatles 1963 second album,With The Beatles Stephen Thomas Erlewine who wrote The All Music Guide's Rolling Stones biography,and reviews a lot of Beatles and solo Beatles albums, says at the end of the very good review that still the heart of With The Beatles lies not in the covers but the originals where it was clear that even at this early stage The Beatles were rapidly maturing and changing turning into expert craftsman and musical innovators.
Paul McCartney said in a 1994 interview that Mick Jagger came to John and Paul in 1963 and asked him if they had any songs for them. So Paul and John wrote the rock n roll song, I Wanna Be Your Man right in front of them, and in Bob Spitz's very good book,The Beatles he explains that as they were writing it .
John played Keith Richards guitar and Paul played Bill Wyman's bass and Keith Richards and Mick Jagger who were really impressed that they could just write a song just like that to order,and it became one of The Rolling Stones first hits,and it motivated them to start writing their own songs and both bands became friends and often hung out together from then on.
Definitely. Mick and Keith started writing because of John and Paul.
George Martin Says In This book his biography, All You Need is Ears, there's no doubt Lennon & McCartney were good musicians, they had good musical brains and the brain is where music originates, it has nothing to do with your fingers, and he also said as it happened they could all play their own instruments very well, and that Paul is an excellent music all- arounder, probably the best bass guitar-player there is, a brilliant guitarist, a first class drummer and a competent piano player.
George Martin said in The Beatles early days he tried to learn to play the guitar in order to have a better musical communication between him and The Beatles,but he couldn't learn it and gave it up,but he says that John and Paul learned to play the piano far more quickly than he was able to master their instrument.
George Martin also always said that John Lennon and McCartney were incredibly talented people,and he said they both were extraordinarily talented song writers and both great singers and he said he had never known or worked with anyone as brilliant as The Beatles. And he produced many music artists after them,but he never had the same success as a producer before or after producing them.Neither did Brian Epstein.
That talent wasn't so obvious at the beginning but when he recorded Please Please Me he realised that there was talent there, and his genius enabled them to blossom.
The early Beatles were definitely not just like any rock and roll band.
University of Pennsylvania ( 1 of the top ivy league universities in the US) graduate musicologist Alan W.Pollack who did an 11 year extensive analysis called Notes On Series which is online, of every one of the 200 Beatles songs,analyzes the 1962 John Lennon song I always loved, Ask Me Why and explains that it's structurally complex.
In Alan's analysis of Paul McCartney's 1963 very good song All My Loving and he describes it as having a lot of complex chords and other unusual musical things.Many people have pointed out on music and Beatles fan site forums that John Lennon played great,difficult fast rhythm guitar triplets,well it turns out John( and George and Paul on bass) was playing a whole bunch of complex chords this fast and great!
In an interview with University of Pennsylvania graduate musicologist Alan Pollack who did an 11 year study of all 200 Beatles songs, here he says The Beatles specifically John and Paul wrote what he calls chord anomalies which are very clever complex unusual including in their early music, and he said about these chord anomalies in their early music that people tend to underrate the first half of their catalog in this respect.
I agree - their early albums are just as good as any they released. They rewrote the rules of songwriting.
Great interview!
Loved hearing his comments about Linda. I mean, God bless her and all that, but she always seemed a bit of a cold fish to me.
Nice to get his observations as an eyewitness beyond the written word! A fascinating guy to talk to. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool You have the best interviews!
I always want them to be longer.
Seriously he is judging her on her unshaven legs. How completely misogynistic .
Thank you.
It was an unexpected comment I must admit.
To this day I find it hard to fathom how the band could fall for Mr. K's antics. (Three minus one of them, at least.)
Wonderful guest., as ever, with a unique perspective and story to share.
Or Magic Alex.
John, for all his blarney and bravado, was easily taken in by a lot of people over the years and open to suggestion. Klein was a very smooth operator who could sell ice to polar bears, but then manipulate once he had them. John fell for it like many others did. A conman!!
It's not new -- it was published after John was murdered and couldn't talk back.
John had said that Peter Brown was a three-martini lunch gravy train hanger-on.
The book is new because it is different to The Love You Make, which had a narrative. This is individual chapters as transcriptions of the interviews, some of which wasntin the original book.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool That doesn't change what John said about Peter Brown, or the fact that Brown didn't publish until AFTER John was murdered and couldn't talk back.
@@jnagarya519 The book was never going to be published before John was killed anyway, as John's interview was lined up for early 1981. They only started the interviews in September 1980.
John often didn't have a good word to say about a lot of people, depending on when he was asked, but he was definitely entitled to his opinion. I can't add to that.
@@BrightmoonLiverpool Let's be REAL, okay?
The claim that they were going to "give" the taped interviews "away" -- but no one wanted them.
Taped interviews worth a mint in $$$$$$ -- and no one wanted them? Doesn't that mean that they weren't REALLY offered to "for free"?
It is unbelievable how some will believe anything they hear because they WANT it to be true -- without ever asking questions not only of the claims made but also of the source.
NOTHING they claim changes what John Lennon said about Brown. But let's believe his detractors -- after all, we don't have John alive and able to correct the record.
@jnagarya519 But some will listen to things and wanting them not to be true too.
I make no judgement in an interview and have not interviewed or questioned Peter Brown. If you read The Love You Make, there are a number of statements Brown makes that can't be true, like many people in the Beatles world, so I can believe what John says if that is how he felt.
Terrible book ‘The Love you Make’ and will not be buying this book. Grifter. Dissing and gossiping about Paul and Linda! John and Yoko, no problem. Terrible!