The pocket book of the beatles book review

The Pocket Book of The Beatles is filled with quotations by and about the band that revolutionised popular music the world over From insightful quotes by fellow artists collaborators and friends to words of wit and wisdom from John Paul George and Ringo themselves you ll find than 170 amusing and inspiring soundbites inside The Pocket Book of the BeatlesThis book contains not only occasional quotations from other artists and managers but also plenty of views from the Fab Four themselves and in the last mentioned category they are not always self praising John Lennon for example is ambivalent about himself as he said Part of me suspects that I am a loser and the other part of me thinks I m God Almighty Perhaps the answer lies somewhere in between The one thing that does shine through is the togetherness that they once had with George Harrison for instance stating Playing without Ringo is like driving a car with three wheels A Reliant Robin for instance And John Lennon summed up their appeal with We reckoned we could make it because there were fur of us None of us would ve made it alone because Paul wasn t quite strong enough I didn t have enough girl appeal George was too quiet and Ringo was the drummer But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us and that s how it turned out Ringo s take it was We all have our special fans If all four of us had to stand in front of a million fans and they lined up behind the one they liked best I think Paul would get the most John and George would get joint second And Ringo would be last That s what I think At the start Decca missed their chance as one of their crew stated We don t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out Yeah yeah yeah Interestingly John Lennon said of their final name I was looking for a name like The Crickets that meant two things and from crickets I got to beetles And I changed to BEA because BEETLES didn t mean two things so I changed the E to an A And it meant two things then When you said it people thought of crawly things and when you read it it was beat music And John Lennon when asked if he liked being the Beatles also said amusingly We like it or we d be The Rolling Stones And mention of the Stones brings in Mick Jagger who commented Their success in America broke down a lot of doors that helped everyone else from England that followed and I thank them very much for all those things In later times thinking of America among other things Paul McCartney stated We used to have lots of ambitions Like Number One records Sunday Night at the London Palladium The Ed Sullivan Show to got o America I can t think of any We re living an awful lot of them When the end was nigh Paul McCartney said We knew it was coming but we tried to pretend we didn t know it was coming And sometimes Yoko Ono took part of the blame for the break up bus she commented The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men my small hand could not have broken those me up They broke up because they d reached an end but in doing so they all created wonderful new beginnings John Lennon s laconic comment was What I d have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame And George Harrison looked back with The first time I heard Love Me Do on the radio I went shivery all over I couldn t believe it Ringo meanwhile thought The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other That s all they ll ever be The final comment comes from an unlikely source who stated More than any ideology than any religion than Vietnam or any war or nuclear bomb the single most important reason for the diffusion of the Cold War was the Beatles And that source was Mikhail Gorbachev who was Back in the U.S.S.R Hardcover