'Craig Brown has brilliantly drawn together the component parts of a complex woman' The Oldie 'The only royal biography of the year worth handing the Queen's head over for, Ma'am Darling is a modern and unconventional portrait of an old-fashioned princess as distilled and pickled through the genius of Craig Brown' Helen Davies, Sunday Times 'Consistently hilarious and eye-opening' Tim Adams, Observer 'A biography teeming with the joyous, the ghastly and the clinically fascinating' Hannah Bett, The Times Brown has done something amazing with Ma'am Darling: in my wilder moments, I wonder if he hasn't reinvented the biographical form' Observer At a time when, like everybody else, I was feeling not entirely thrilled about the news, I loved every word of it.’ – The Sunday Times ‘A ridiculously enjoyable treat… Too many writers take the Beatles, and themselves, far too seriously. Reading about them… is quite a melancholy experience, because the end seems always in sight.’ – The Observer ‘You can almost feel the 1960s bloom from monochrome into colour as the band plays irresistibly on.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780008340032 Number of pages: 656 Weight: 460 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS
One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era. It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.įrom the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories. One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.' No one has remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Awardįrom the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April 2021
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