Philip Norman

Tumblers of brandy before breakfast. A £10,000-a-week heroin habit. And a love life as outrageous as it was tragic... As Eric Clapton turns 80 his biographer PHILIP NORMAN reveals what star's wild life is REALLY like up close

Lennon on heroin during a TV interview. Harrison brawling after a nasty jibe about Yoko. Macca behaving like a dictatorial gym teacher. As a new version of Let It Be is released, PHILIP NORMAN recalls... My ringside seat watching The Beatles self-destruct

Rock biographer Philip Norman: ‘It took me years to understand the paradox of George Harrison’