Girls screamed, acid was dropped, John said accurately that they were bigger than Jesus, they all lived in a Yellow Submarine, then Paul couldn’t get along with Yoko and Ringo was eventually cast as a small conductor in Shining Time Station. For most of this hardbound doorstop, though, the interview subjects recycle familiar stories and facts, and Spitz, certainly diligent and professional, presents the standard line. What did he come up with? The biggest scoop he scored is a lass named Dot who divulges her tale of getting impregnated by a young and callow McCartney on the eve of Beatlemania, only to miscarry. In an apparently earnest quest to separate the truth from the mythology, he interviewed 650 subjects.
The cartoon George pulled up in a limo, saw Homer and an ensemble called the Be Sharps performing on the rooftop of Moe’s, and, recalling the finale of Let It Be, quipped, “It’s been done.” * Now that Little, Brown has unloaded Bob Spitz’s 983-page book The Beatles: The Biography, I’m tempted to say the same thing.Įight years in the making, Spitz’s book is chock-full of interviews with hangers-on, siblings, groupies, Apple employees, and any other random bloke or bird who happened to be in Liverpool or Savile Row at the right moment. Years ago, George Harrison had a one-line cameo on The Simpsons.
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