Kenneth Womack
Auteur de Solid State: The Story of "Abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles
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Kenneth Womack's books include Sound Pictures, Long and Winding Roads, The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, The Beatles Encyclopedia, and New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles. He delivers some fifty invited Beatles talks a year to audiences across the nation, while sharing his insights with afficher plus media of all stripes, including National Public Radio, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Voice of America. afficher moins
Crédit image: Photograph by Marissa Carney
Œuvres de Kenneth Womack
Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Early Years, 1926–1966 (2017) 34 exemplaires
Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016 (2018) 29 exemplaires
The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four 2 Vols: The Beatles Encyclopedia [2 volumes]: Everything Fab Four (2014) 12 exemplaires
Living the Beatles Legend: The new biography revealing the untold story of Mal Evans, the perfect 2023 Christmas gift… (2023) 9 exemplaires
New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles: Things We Said Today (2016) — Directeur de publication — 7 exemplaires
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016 (Bronze – Performing Arts – 2019)
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We're given an almost day-to-day chronicle of Mal Evans life from meeting the Beatles until his death in early 1976.
Unfortunately, along the way, there's a point where I decided it had been a mistake for me to read this book. I'd always smiled when I saw Mal in the movies and photos, but now that's always going to be coloured by the knowledge that he was not the person everyone made him out to be.
Yes, he was an excellent roadie, with an almost preternatural ability to anticipate the Beatles' needs and wants. Yes, he was mostly a gentle giant of a man who made friends easily and everyone seemed to adore.
But there's a far darker side, and it all seems to do with addictions. Addiction to drugs, to alcohol, to young women, to sex, to fame, to recognition, and to the Beatles. All at the expense of a family that didn't deserve his absence.
Honestly, the more I learned, the more I grew to hate Mal Evans.
So, four stars for the book itself. But Mal? Yeah, he gets none.… (plus d'informations)