Day 14 → A non-fictional book
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ericadawn16Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America by Jonathan Gould
This was the last non-fiction book I read and I had a lot of fun with it. Since the 60s were more than a decade before I was born, I had no idea about a lot of it and other stuff that I thought I knew pretty well, like the Beatles...it felt almost like I didn't know anything at all!
Gould is very thorough in his dissection of the Beatles and their fandom. He covers all cultural elements that play their part in their popularity, the childhoods of their parents and even several pages on how Wales and other places helped in making the Liverpool accent. I admit it was a little dry at first, but once the Beatles became the Beatles, it was incredibly interesting for the quotes if nothing else...Yoko Ono even suggests that World War 2 could have been averted if she had just been around to bed Hitler...
Now, I've been a bit curious about Nowhere Boy because it's Thomas Sangster as Paul McCartney, but now that I know more about his meeting John Lennon and John Lennon's home life...I kind of want to see it...
This was the last non-fiction book I read and I had a lot of fun with it. Since the 60s were more than a decade before I was born, I had no idea about a lot of it and other stuff that I thought I knew pretty well, like the Beatles...it felt almost like I didn't know anything at all!
Gould is very thorough in his dissection of the Beatles and their fandom. He covers all cultural elements that play their part in their popularity, the childhoods of their parents and even several pages on how Wales and other places helped in making the Liverpool accent. I admit it was a little dry at first, but once the Beatles became the Beatles, it was incredibly interesting for the quotes if nothing else...Yoko Ono even suggests that World War 2 could have been averted if she had just been around to bed Hitler...
Now, I've been a bit curious about Nowhere Boy because it's Thomas Sangster as Paul McCartney, but now that I know more about his meeting John Lennon and John Lennon's home life...I kind of want to see it...
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Date: 2009-11-18 03:17 pm (UTC)Last I heard, the film's supposed to come here in January, but we know how those work. I think it's supposed to be released in Britain next month if you want to find a more reliable means of seeing it.
I also really recommend the book since it covers the whole span of the Beatles until breaking up and I'm not even sure if the film will go far enough to include Ringo.
I admit that I had to look up what you were referring to by "Strawberry Fields" since I had just read the book which talked about the real Strawberry Field, an orphanage in England. I'd definitely like to see the memorial some day, it looks like an awesome way of remembering him.