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Title: fab and gear
Review: There are probably factual errors in here, there are books which examine the Beatles in more detail, there are other points of view. And of course there is always the music, stupid.This book's achievment is it's first and last quarters - wishing and wasting. Close your eyes after any part of the first quarter and you are in Liverpool, scrambling frantically to learn a chord, fix an amplifier, get a gig, find a drummer, get to Hamburg, cut a record, DO IT NOW.Skim through the middle bits with the numbers getting larger, the crowds louder and the songs less joyous. Go straight to the end where Norman describes Apple Corps falling to pieces even as the best music of all was providing the soundtrack to the end of a love affair. Not ours with them, but theirs with each other.There have only been two truly important bands in rock and roll. Norman provides ample evidence of the Beatles being the best of the two. The other .... you figure it out.
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