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A Tell-All Beatles Book Came Out 40 Years Ago — Here’s Why the Author Is Releasing the Transcripts
40 years after Steven Gaines' tell-all Beatles book, he releases the transcripts in new book All You Need Is Love: The Beatles In Their Own Words.
Fifty years ago, Steven Gaines, a New York Sunday News rock ‘n’ roll newspaper columnist, lined up to ask the Beatles ‘ John Lennon a question during a press event for the musical Sgt. Peter Brown, the Beatles ‘ former day-to-day manager and president of the Robert Stigwood Organization, which produced the show, noticed Gaines’ dejection, invited him to talk in a nearby lounge, and the pair became lifelong friends. Later, using Brown’s connections, the duo spent much of 1980 recording exclusive interviews with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Beatles insiders such as Apple Corps’ Neil Aspinall and publisher Dick James.
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