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May 1

For my second post of the day I'm pleased to welcome you to my stop on the blog tour for the fascinating and insightful All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. Thank you to Anne Cater and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read and review this interesting book.

About the Book:

All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.

In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.

About the Authors:

STEVEN GAINES is the New York Times bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons and The Love You Make: An Insiders Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown). His journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for 12 years. Mr. Gaines is the co-founder and a past vice-chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival. He has lived in Wainscott, a small hamlet on the East End of Long Island, for 40 years.

PETER BROWN is the former COO of Apple Corp, the Beatles' financial empire. He's been a Beatles intimate since their earliest days in Liverpool. Their passports were locked in his desk drawer. He was best man at John and Yoko's wedding, he introduced Paul to Linda Eastman, and perhaps the most charming of his credentials is that he's the only real person ever mentioned in a Beatles song: 'Peter Brown called to say, you can make it okay, you can marry in Gibraltar near Spain' from 'The Ballad of John and Yoko'. Mr. Brown is now chairman of the international public relations firm of Brown Lloyd James LTD.

My Review:

A must read for any Beatles fan, All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles is a fascinating and insightful read that is an oral history of The Beatles and how their time together as a foursome came to an end. Full of never before published interviews from the band and their closest confidantes, this was a book that really did open my eyes to what happened as this iconic and much loved band decided to go their separate ways.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I started All You Need Is Love, but I was pleasantly surprised by just how much of an interesting and insightful read it turned out to be. As someone who has always loved The Beatles and their music, I can honestly say that this book is a real treasure trove of information, brought to life through transcripts of never before heard interviews.

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines is a book I would recommend to anyone interested in finding out more about what really did happen in the final days of, arguably, the most famous band the world has ever known.

All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines is available to purchase now: