Four Moptop Yobbos
Ian Penman, 17 June 2021
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
by Craig Brown.
Fourth Estate, 642 pp., £9.99, March,978 0 00 834003 2 Show More
by Craig Brown.
Fourth Estate, 642 pp., £9.99, March,
The Beatles and Sixties Britain
by Marcus Collins.
Cambridge, 382 pp., £90, March 2020,978 1 108 47724 6 Show More
by Marcus Collins.
Cambridge, 382 pp., £90, March 2020,
The Beatles in Context
edited by Kenneth Womack.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £74.99, January 2020,978 1 108 41911 6 Show More
edited by Kenneth Womack.
Cambridge, 372 pp., £74.99, January 2020,
“... though it was the Rolling Stones who summoned Dionysus and Pan, with their none hipper retinue: Kenneth Anger, Christopher Gibbs, Gram Parsons, Jean-Luc Godard. The Beatles grew sheepdog hair and Bakunin beards, and adopted the statutory exotic guru, but they never really had anything like the Stones’ sullen, dandified grandeur. The Stones were ... ”
