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Shout!: The True Story of the "Beatles" (Paperback)

by Philip Norman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 495 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (18 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 033048768X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330487689
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 219,518 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In the first Beatles biography, Philip Norma has close working relationships with each of the Fab Four, having interviewed them many times since 1965 and observed first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70. The resulting book contained insights into the rise of the Beatles, their final years, the chaos of Apple and the collapse of Hippy idealism. Fully updated, this book is for anyone with an interest in pop music, the Sixties and the pleasures and perils of fame.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars It's OK, But Spoiled by Pro-Lennon Bias, 6 Jan 2006
By G. B. Reid "Gordon Reid" (Somerset, UK) - See all my reviews
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The author sets out his stall early on, declaring that for him Lennon was three-quarters of the Beatles. So the McCartney that emerges from the book is a bitter, jealous wannabe, Harrison an untalented, charmless duffer. Lennon alone is the charismatic driving force behind the group.

The odd thing is, that Lennon seems to have been a deeply unpleasant personality. (Norman recounts without criticism his appalling treatment of his first wife, Cynthia, and his sneering mockery of those around him. He repeats without comment a story that Lennon may have brought about his friend Stuart Sutcliffe's death by repeatedly kicking him in the head one time. And when Lennon urinates from his Hamburg balcony onto the heads of nuns passing below we're obviously supposed to laugh at the laddish high jinks.)

It's as if Norman is at some level aware of how ghastly his hero really is, and as a result has to denigrate the other Beatles by comparison. (He reminded me of a small kid sycophantically sucking up to the playground bully in this book.)

It's a shame too that the prologue tries to connect the murder of Lennon with the terrorist attack of 9/11 - a serious error of judgement - and I didn't like the smug way the author reckons his is still the best biography of the Beatles.

So, in short, well researched and a good read, but in no sense impartial.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Biography of the Beatles? More like slag off Paul McCartney., 12 Sep 2004
By Glen Rowlan "y2penni" (Sanderstead, UK) - See all my reviews
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For the positive points, this book will fascinate the reader, if you're a Beatle fan or not. Its got interesting facts (and opinions) on the music, the band and the living times of the 60s in the mayhem of Beatlemania - on both sides of the Atlantic. Also does Norman go into great detail of the relationship between the Beatles and Brian Epstein.

The best part is in the first section "WISHING" where the reader gets to know how two of the most prominent figures in music history meet up after when Paul sees John playing in his old school skiffle group "The Quarry Men". You feel like your there witnessing it all happen.

In the prologue Philip Norman clears up the criticism he received from reviews of Shout, most claiming his bitterness of Paul McCartney. This 'dislike of Paul' was what let down the book for me. Being a "John-person" than a "Paul-person", Norman constantly shows hatred of him - particularly in chapter 21.

The Book had little information on the songs and didn't go into great detail - since i'm a music student, i would have preferred this.

I also didn't like his criticism of Heather Mills and Paul's marriage with her. His attitude and his self-centred remarks appalled me and left the tone all a bit sour towards the end of the book.

This biography is 'conscientously researched' - a really good aspect of the book, but at times, it is let down by the authors sneering remarks.

So finally... Buy it if you don't like Paul McCartney either... buy it if you love John Lennon and the Beatles... and buy it, simply because this is the definitive Beatles biography.

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2.0 out of 5 stars One to Avoid, 13 April 2009
This review is from: Shout!: The True Story of the "Beatles" (Paperback)
"Shout!" is essentially a 400 page fan letter to John Lennon, with Paul McCartney cast as a pantomime villain and poor old George and Ringo scarcely getting a look in. Norman's argument, repeated ad nauseum at every opportunity, is that the Fab Four consisted of one musical lightweight plus two lucky bit-part players who all rode to success on the back of John Lennon's genius. Not only is this an idiotic position to adopt but it also means that "Shout!" is such a wasted opportunity; Norman must have spent years researching this book but he just doesn't seem to 'get' the Beatles at all, still less to understand that they were perhaps the ultimate musical proof of that old adage about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts.

In fairness, Norman isn't bad on 1950s-60s period detail and he does produce a few entertaining set pieces (the band's first BBC tv appearance, for example, or their arrival in the States in 1964), but overall this is one to avoid; an unbalanced view of the Beatles dominated by endless, petty-minded sniping at McCartney and a fawning (and ultimately self-defeating) sycophancy towards Lennon. A pity; this could have been so much better.
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