Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn (English) Paperback Book

Description: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn Originally published: New York: Crown Archetype, c2013. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the worlds leading Beatles authority – the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely always will be. Still, somehow, their music excites, their influence resonates, their fame sustains. New generations find and love them, and while many other great artists come and go, the Beatles are beyond eclipse. So . . . who really were these people, and just how did it all happen? The Beatles story is everywhere. Told wrong from early on, rehashed in every possible way and routinely robbed of its context, this is a phenomenon in urgent need of a bright new approach. In his series All These Years, Mark Lewisohn – the world-recognized Beatles historian – presses the Refresh button to relate the entire story as its never been told or known before. Here is a full and accurate biography at last. It is certain to become the lasting word. Tune In is book one of three, exploring and explaining a period that is by very definition lesser-known: the formative pre-fame years, the teenage years, the Liverpool and Hamburg years – in many ways the most absorbing and incredible period of them all. The Beatles come together here in all their originality, attitude, style, speed, charisma, appeal, daring and honesty, the tools with which theyre about to reshape the world. Its the Beatles in their own time, an amazing story of the ultimate rock band, a focused and colorful telling that builds and builds to leave four sharp lads from Liverpool on the very brink of a whole new kind of fame. Using impeccable research and resources, Tune In is a magisterial work, an independent biography that combines energy, clarity, objectivity, authority and insight. The text is anti-myth, tight and commanding – just like the Beatles themselves. Here is the Beatles story as it really was. Throw away what you think you know and start afresh. Author Biography MARK LEWISOHN is the acknowledged world authority on the Beatles. Before embarking on The Beatles: All These Years his books included the bestselling and influential The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicle. He was a consultant and researcher on all aspects—TV, DVDs, CDs and book—of the Beatles own Anthology and has been involved in numerous additional projects for them. Married with two children, he lives in England. Review "An epic unprecedented in rock n roll biography, and a great read . . . theres a surprise on every page." —Mojo "Beyond essential . . . a wildly evocative portrait . . . The saga is clearer and richer here than its ever been. Lewisohn writes in novelistic detail and with the obvious conviction that none of the previous Beatles biographies have ever been good enough."—Entertainment Weekly "A radical event and a joy to read . . . Lewisohns work stands as a monumental triumph, a challenge not merely to other Beatles biographers but to the discipline of biography itself. If only all important subjects had their Lewisohn." —Washington Post "The biggest, deepest Beatles book ever."—Rolling Stone "The widest possible angle on an extensive and engrossing group biography built on a well-raked mountain of exacting new research . . . expertly controlled and propelling."—New York Times "Lewisohn manages to fill in blanks that no one knew were empty."—The New Yorker "A triumph. Not only an enthralling account of the Beatles groups origins, far superior to anything that has gone before, but also an essential piece of social history . . . Lewisohn has set out to do the Beatles justice and write the definitive history. I think he is succeeding." —The Times (UK) "A book with a difference, one that ensures all previous rock tomes will gather dust on high cobwebbed shelves . . . Lewisohn has set the benchmark in popular music history that he alone can match." —Huffington Post "Every single page brings the Beatles back into focus and moves them away from legend. Common myths fall apart under Mr. Lewisohns research." —New York Journal of Books "In its close focus and historical ambition, the trilogy may be compared to Robert Caros biography of Lyndon Johnson or John Richardsons A Life of Picasso; it is unlikely to be surpassed." —Daily Telegraph (UK) "A game-changing study which raises the bar in a genre characterized by pap or pretension. A meticulous piece of work – I cant wait for volume two." —The Independent (UK) "I can think of no greater praise for Tune In than to say that it gives the Beatles the beginnings of the biography they deserve. It is hard to imagine the subsequent volumes, covering more familiar ground, matching the gripping quality of this constantly surprising work." —Financial Times "This is the story told in Proustian detail, told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it." —The Guardian (UK) "With imagination, energy and a gripping plotline, Lewisohn manages to put flesh and blood on the story as never before." —The Sunday Times (UK) "Packed with revelations and demystifications." —The Economist "A major event in music publishing . . . the definitive account of the Beatles." —GQ "Lewisohn treats his subjects seriously, as historical, if ultimately remarkable, figures, and eschews the myriad myths that have grown up around the band in favor of the sorts of details and minutiae, wrapped in a serious but breezy narrative, that give us the fullest picture of who John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and, eventually, Ringo Starr were." —Esquire "A fast-moving page-turner overflowing with warm humor, passion, and (of course) music. Likely to become a principle text in 20th-century studies, a sort of Complete Shakespeare with a much better soundtrack." —VH1.com "As a Beatles scholar, Mark Lewisohn has no serious rivals. [This is] nothing less than a lifetimes work embracing the cultural and personal history of the Fab Four, a multi-volume epic written on a scale unprecedented in its genre." —Irish Times "Tune In is brilliant in describing the addictive power of rock and roll when there was no imaginable alternative in a doomed town. [Tune In] turns up the colors in a world that has faded to grey." —Herald Scotland "Unearths searing new facts that change our historical perspective of what weve always been told, setting history on its ear."—Examiner.com "A definitive history of the band."—The Wall Street Journal "Written with passion, authority and vitality, this is an absorbing book."—Edinburgh Evening News "Epic in its scope, forensic in its detail, Tune In is like reading the Beatles story for the very first time."—R2/Rock n Reel "Lewisohn has a knack for underscoring the moment, the precise moment, when things change."—Slate.com "A clear-eyed appraisal of rocks most beloved band."—CNN.com Review Quote "The biggest, deepest Beatles book ever." - Rolling Stone Excerpt from Book One 1845-1945 IN MY LIVERPOOL HOME The significance of the location was unknown to those present that murky day in 1962 when four lads stood in front of a huge tea warehouse by Liverpools dock road, having photos taken to publicize their first record. John Lennon certainly had no idea that the clearing of land on Saltney Street on which he was standing was where his family began their life in the city, just a few among the hordes of starving and mostly illiterate Irish fleeing the potato famine in their homeland. At least one and a half million stricken Irish men, women and children sailed into Liverpool between 1845 and 1854. Plenty traveled on again, to America, Canada, Mexico and Australia, but a vast number stayed and few of those went very far: Saltney Street was hard by the docks of this great global seaport, ocean liners steaming up and down the River Mersey right at the end of the street. Its still there today, though the horrors of its cholera-infested housing have been swept away. In Liverpool, history is everywhere you look. JOHN LENNON--family background James Lennon was the first to put down roots. Born about 1829 in County Down, one of the nine counties to form the province of Ulster, he was married in 1849 on Scotland Road, the slum-ridden heart of Liverpools immigrant Catholic community. He fathered at least eight children before his wife died in the act of delivering another, and probably the third of these, in January 1855, was John Lennon, grandfather. John (sometimes Jack) Lennon grew into an intelligent, happy-go-lucky soul who sang loud and often in alehouses, worked mostly as a freight clerk, and led an intriguing life of mysteries, dead ends and deceptions. After marrying twice, his longest relationship was with a Protestant woman, Mary "Polly" Maguire. Their first seven babies all died, and of the seven that followed, the fifth was Alfred Lennon, born in December 1912 at the family home in Copperfield Street, Toxteth. After this, they got married.1 When cirrhosis of the liver killed his father in 1921, Alf was eight. Malnutrition had visited rickets upon the lad, a common condition among the poor, and he wore leg-irons for a considerable part of his childhood. Three years later he was offered a place at the excellent Blue Coat School, in the district of Wavertree, the citys oldest charitable foundation for the free education of orphans and fatherless children. There was one proviso: Protestants only, and several certificates were sought to prove a half-truth. Alf received a fine education here, and like every Blue Coat boy was regularly marched down to Biolettis, the barbers shop at the nearby Penny Lane roundabout, for a severe scissoring. On leaving in 1929, he was found an office placement with a shipping company, and three weeks later, while ambling with his slightly unsteady gait through Sefton Park--one of Liverpools many fine green spaces--he met 15-year-old Julia Stanley. John Lennons maternal family was essentially Protestant. His great-grandfather, William Stanley, born 1846 in Birmingham, had moved to Liverpool by 1868. He and wife Eliza (born in Omagh, County Tyrone, another of the Ulster counties) set up home in Everton, in the north end of the city, and in 1874 gave birth to their third son, George--the "Pop" John Lennon would know until losing him at the age of eight. By 1898, George Stanley, a merchant seaman, had united with Annie Milward (born Chester, 1873) and begun to produce a family. For reasons as inexplicable as John Lennon and Polly Maguires situation at the same time, they did this outside of marriage, and their experiences were similarly tragic--their first two children died. The third lived, however: Mary Elizabeth Stanley, known as Mimi, was born in Windsor Street, Toxteth, in 1906, just a shout from the Lennons on Copperfield Street. John Lennon isnt known to have been aware that both his father and his Aunt Mimi, key figures in his life, were, in the literally used word of the day, bastards. What he did know is that the Stanleys always believed they were several notches above the Lennons, claiming better breeding, education, nationality, religion, refinement, resources and aspiration, at least some of which is debatable. Post-marriage, four more girls were born to George and Annie, all to live long and to create, with Mimi, a posse of five sisters whose allegiances would prove strong in the decades that followed, and whose influence on John Lennon would be of great significance. The third of that final four, Julia--born in March 1914 on the proverbial eve of the Great War--was Johns mother. She was given license within the family as the wild one, free-spirited, her notable wit and pranks enjoyed by all. Her father--the girls called him Dada--taught her banjo and she was talented, able to pick up tunes by ear. She was soon plucking and singing along to popular songs of the day, like "Girl of My Dreams" and "Ramona," which came across from America in 1927 as sheet music and then via three inventions that progressed rapidly during these years: the wireless, the gramophone and the talking pictures. Julia left school in 1929 and met Alf Lennon soon after taking her first job. He wasnt the kind of young man to object if someone found him funny. Creating an impression was the thing, even if he was being laughed at, which he was. "You look silly" were the first words said to him by Julia, naturally drawn to the daft. "You look lovely," he replied, and a relationship was born. At the start of the 1930s, Alf left his office job and became a merchant seaman, beginning a long and highly colorful nautical career. Generally known to his shipmates as Lennie (sometimes he was Freddie; he mostly called himself Alf), the sea was for him. The comradeship of his sailor pals was wonderful, there was a thriving black market to make extra loot on the side, he really did get to see the world, and the work was something he did well enough to earn several promotions: shipping records show that he went from bellboy to silver room boy, saloon steward, assistant steward and other, similar positions. Alfs best decade at sea was the first. His close friend Billy Hall laughs as he recalls: He was a rascal. An absolute character. You wouldnt think of going out anywhere without dragging Lennie along. He was always part of the fun--and if there wasnt any, hed make some. He was an ale drinker, but once he started drinking hed drink anything. If there was a bottle, hed stay with it. He was a happy drunk, he just did stupid things on the spur of the moment. Most times hed get away with it and laugh like hell.1 Alf had now reached his full adult height, 5ft 3in, and compensated for catcalls by being the comedian. He whistled, played harmonica and loved to sing: he particularly enjoyed "Red Sails in the Sunset," except he did it as "Red suns in the sailset, all blue I feel day," having found that twisting words would winkle another laugh. Though only sporadically back in Liverpool, Alf always claimed he was faithful to Julia. She, however, was nonplussed about his absences, scarcely reacted when he left, and never went to the docks to see him off. Hed recall how, even though he wrote to her, she never wrote back; and how, when he was home in Liverpool, she treated him coolly. He appears to have been her plaything, an amusing friend repeatedly ambling back into her life and then going away again, at which point she--a rebel spirit with a strong allure to men and a playful, vivacious character--did whatever she pleased. With their higher opinion of themselves, most (or all) of the Stanleys saw Alf as "low," and there was also the religious schism, Protestant against Catholic, a gulf that violently divided Liverpool in these years. Julia worked through the 1930s as an usherette at the Trocadero, one of several sumptuous film palaces newly built in the center of town. With her lively personality, iridescent appeal to men, and a job that brought her into constant contact with many of them, its not credible (though its been claimed) that Julia resisted all male overtures because Alf was her one true love. When they married, it was for a dare, a lark. Hed later recall how Julia goaded him, claiming that, through sheer cowardice, hed never propose.2 That did it. Alf popped the question and Julia said yes. He fixed the wedding for Liverpool register office on December 3, 1938, just before he had to sail off to the West Indies. Their first married hours comprised an afternoon at the pictures (watching an awful Tommy Trinder comedy called Almost a Honeymoon), then Alf took his wife back to 22 Huskisson Street and went home to 57 Copperfield Street.2 The news was poorly received at the Stanleys, as Mimi later remembered: "We were all shocked. She just thought it was clever to defy the family. She soon regretted it when she realized it was not so clever. Julia was a beautiful girl, headstrong. I loved Julia. She was so witty and amusing, always laughing. We all make mistakes. Julias was not realizing the seriousness of a defiant prank. The only good thing that came out of it was John."3 PAUL MCCARTNEY--family background McCartney isnt an English name, but efforts to establish when this specific line of the family arrived in England have proved fruitless, so many are the possibilities. Genealogists ascribe the names journey to a start in Scotland as the Mackintosh clan, followed by a migration to Ireland, during the course of which they switched from Catholic to Protestant. A clear and traceable line in Liverpool begins in 1864 w Details ISBN1101903295 Author Mark Lewisohn Short Title TUNE IN Pages 944 Language English ISBN-10 1101903295 ISBN-13 9781101903292 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 782.42166092 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-10-11 Subtitle The Beatles: All These Years Imprint Crown Publishing Group Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2016-10-11 NZ Release Date 2016-10-11 US Release Date 2016-10-11 UK Release Date 2016-10-11 Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY) Illustrations 3 8-PAGE B&W/4C PHOTO INSERTS Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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