Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories

The British Beatles Fan Club Magazine described Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories as delightful and a Very enjoyable book.English Songwriter Mitch Murray (Three Sixties No. 1 Hits) I was part of Beatleworld during the early days and even I have been thourghly re-educated by Marks book. Its meticulously researched and the photos are among the best Ive seen... If you shake a bottle of pop - and flip the top - it explodes. Thats what happened to the Beatles. They were a musical tsunami. From 1962-70 they recorded songs teens and adults yearned to hear. Their melodies still spark and glow and their harmonies move together like parallel lines. It feels like they are in the same room-singing directly to you.Music journalist Mark Brickleys expanded (May 2019) book Postcards From Liverpool recounts rarely heard tales including the story of how the Beatles struggled to record their first single Love Me Do. The books Rishikesh chapter remembers the bands immersion in Transcendental Meditation and offers an alternate ending to the groups exodus from Maharishis ashram. The worlds greatest sitarist Ravi Shankar is profiled in The Sitars Sound and the peak of McCartneys solo career is reviewed in Wings Over Africa. There are two dozen additional photographs and four new chapters in the reissued book including the authors 2018 meet-up with Beatles drummer Pete Best at the San Diego Beatles Fair a primer on how to grade and collect vinyl records and how vocalist Engelbert Humperdinck kept two of the Beatles greatest singles from reaching the top of the British Charts. The book traces the Beatles source sounds deconstructs the bands layered harmonies and examines their songwriting influences including Victorian Music Halls upbeat bawdy style. There is also a close look at the bands innovative recording techniques.Postcards From Liverpool is illustrated with the authors original previously unseen photographs of Ringo Starr Paul McCartney Ravi Shankar Pattie Boyd and many other icons in the Beatles orbit. Its interviews include Paul McCartneys son (James) Apple Records vocalist Jackie Lomax and Andy White the drummer who replaced Ringo Starr on the Beatles first single record. Brickleys biography traces the bands footsteps through London into their Liverpool childhood homes with side trips to McCartneys Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony Starrs Grammy Museum Press Conference Clevelands Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Beatles exhibit and the Los Angeles Fest For Beatles Fans. Each tour stop event and exhibition confirmed the unbreakable bond that music fans still have with the famed Liverpool quartet. Postcards From Liverpool is your invitation to rediscover the Beatles stunning soundscape .What Beatles decision in 1962 changed pop music forever?How did Lennon & McCartney sing harmony in parallel thirds?What happened to the ring that Ringo wore during every concert?How many of the Beatles children became musicans or recording artists? All Qs answered in the book.