Beatles For Sale
How everything they touched turned to gold
Published on 1. April 2008
260 pages
978-1-906002-97-8 (ISBN)
Description
Beatles For Sale details the ups and downs of The Beatles from their inception, as they promoted, advertised, and sold records, played concerts, produced tacky merchandise, made films, and set up publishing and record companies. It shows that The Beatles did not cope with their ever-growing business ventures because Lennon, McCartney, Epstein, Aspinall and co. had a clear vision of what they should be doing. On the contrary, their business acumen amounted to little more than making things up as they went along. Beatles For Sale offers the facts and figures behind this story, and explains how it helped shape the music business as we know it. It is a story of naivety and greed, inexperience and luck, gullibility and ingenuity. It is the story of every aspect of how The Beatles made money-and how virtually every successful group since then has followed in their footsteps.
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John Blaney is a passionate Beatles fan who brings to his writing the expertise and rigour of a professional historian. He trained as a graphic designer and studied History Of Art at Camberwell College Of Arts and at Goldsmith College (both in London) before taking up his present post as the curator of a museum of technology.
Content
- Intro
- A Note About Currency
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Money, That's What I Want
- Chapter 2: Mean To Me
- Chapter 3: Only A Northern Song
- Chapter 4: I Read The News Today
- Chapter 5: I Wanna Be Your Fan
- Picture Section
- Chapter 6: Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles
- Chapter 7: You Never Give Me Your Money
- Chapter 8: Act Naturally
- Chapter 9: Come And Get It
- Chapter 10: Apple Bonkers
- Endnotes
- Timeline
- Acknowledgements
- About The Author
