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Most books about the Beatles are by writers who never met them. Ray Connolly was lucky. He was a journalist. He knew all of them, John Lennon confiding in him that he’d left the band months before it became public knowledge, and Paul McCartney later asked to be interviewed so that he could explain his side of the break-up.
Before that Connolly went to Beatles’ recording sessions, was a frequent Apple visitor, followed the Magical Mystery Tour around England and was in the front row at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York. When John sent back his MBE to the Queen it was Ray Connolly he phoned to break the news; and when Lennon lived in New York, there would be letters from him ‒ while Ringo was in a movie Ray Connolly wrote called That’ll Be The Day. Then in December 1980 he was about to fly to New York to see John, when he got the news that he’d been murdered.
This book isn’t a biography of the Beatles. It is a selection of some of Ray Connolly's interviews with them and others connected with them, as well as articles, news stories and reflections on the group he's written over the past forty odd years for British newspapers and magazines – as well as some pieces published here for the first time.
Before that Connolly went to Beatles’ recording sessions, was a frequent Apple visitor, followed the Magical Mystery Tour around England and was in the front row at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in New York. When John sent back his MBE to the Queen it was Ray Connolly he phoned to break the news; and when Lennon lived in New York, there would be letters from him ‒ while Ringo was in a movie Ray Connolly wrote called That’ll Be The Day. Then in December 1980 he was about to fly to New York to see John, when he got the news that he’d been murdered.
This book isn’t a biography of the Beatles. It is a selection of some of Ray Connolly's interviews with them and others connected with them, as well as articles, news stories and reflections on the group he's written over the past forty odd years for British newspapers and magazines – as well as some pieces published here for the first time.
