Love Me Do! by Michael Braun5/12/2023 ![]() There's a point where John and Paul are in their hotel room, talking yet again with a reporter, and John says, "Baby, I need a drink" (but too lazy to do anything about it) and Paul immediately jumps up to order drinks for everyone from room service (first he orders singles, then changes it to doubles!). It captures the Beatles' comfort with each other. They're drinking and smoking and swearing throughout - not something Brian Epstein probably wanted conveyed to the young fans and their parents. Love Me Do is a fun read because it captures them on tour in the moment - and captures how they interacted and how they spoke to each other, and to the press. So the Salon writer is clearly an idiot - by definition. ![]() (But then, that Salon piece praises both Peter Brown's heavily fictionalized book and Philip Norman's wildly inaccurate Shout and harshly criticizes Mark Lewisohn's careful, well-written Tune In. They just sound like young and unpolished men. ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes it sound like it's a negative portrait or something. That Salon writer mischaracterizes the book. I ordered it secondhand off Amazon in 2012 for, according to Amazon's records of my purchases (a bit scary to peruse) a grand total of $18.48. ![]()
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