Craig Brown.
CRAIG BROWN: BEATLES BIOGRAPHY
ONE TWO THREE FOUR: THE BEATLES IN TIME (2020)
Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction.
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Craig Brown, one of the wittiest of British writers, gives a vivid and prize-winning account of the lives of the Beatles and their main song writers John Lennon and Paul McCartney. One of the most successful musical groups of all time, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in the home city of Liverpool and in Hamburg, Germany. Brown’s account is a highly readable hotch potch of interviews, announcements, and stories reflecting the Beatles’ frenetic lives and musical achievements. The judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize described the book as ‘a joyous, irreverent, insightful celebration of the Beatles [which has] re-invented the art of biography’.
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Craig Brown was born in 1957 and was educated at Eton and the University of Bristol. His wide ranging journalistic and literary career spans work for the Tatler, the Spectator, the Literary Review, and as a regular columnist for the Evening Stanard. He was also a parliamentary sketch writer for the Times, and wrote a restaurant column for the Sunday Telegraph. His two highly successful biographies are of the Beatles and Princess Margaret.
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