Once they plateau there’s fighting in the captain’s tower. As McCartney points out, when a band are on the rise all the members’ energies are consumed by the climb. In those days there were no bands with 40 years on the clock and therefore we had no expectation that this lot would continue. For 60s kids like me, it was neither a shock nor a mystery. The first half of Rachel’s book is spent anatomising the discontents that set in once their manager Brian Epstein died in 1967, feelings that the four of them seemingly had to explain in every single interview they did for the rest of their lives. They know more about their story than I do because they’ve read a lot of the books. Writers such as Daniel Rachel may be adults today but they’re nonetheless too young to have experienced the Beatles in real time. F or a baby boomer like me, 12 years old when the Beatles broke through in 1962 and a mere 19 when they called it a day in 1969, it’s curious to watch the love objects of my teenage years still being pored over by grownups more than 50 years later.
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