The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive eBook Ray Connolly
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Most books about the Beatles are by writers who never met them. Ray Connolly was lucky. He was a journalist and he knew all of them, John Lennon confiding in him that he’d left the Beatles four months before it became public knowledge; and later Paul McCartney asking him for an interview so that he could explain his side of the break-up.
Before that, Connolly went to Beatles’ recording sessions at the Abbey Road studios, knew the Beatles' wives, visited the homes of three of them, and was a frequent visitor to the Beatles' Apple London base. In the front row at George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh in Madison Square Gardens, he also followed the Magical Mystery Tour around England’s West Country, and when John Lennon decided to send his MBE back to the Queen it was Ray Connolly he phoned to break the news.
Later, when John Lennon lived in New York, there would be letters from him, while Ringo had the second lead in the movie That’ll Be The Day which Ray Connolly wrote.
This isn’t a biography of the Beatles. Nor is it a dissertation on their music or an analysis of their lyrics. It is Ray Connolly's story of the Beatles, a selection of some of his many interviews with them and others connected with them, as well as articles, reviews, news stories and reflections that he's published over the past forty five years in various British national newspapers – as well as several pieces being published here for the first time.
Home, culture and Lady Madonna - Paul;
Ringo back from meditating - ‘It was just like Butlins’;
The Magical Mystery Tour - ‘Maybe we goofed,’ says Paul;
‘Sometimes I go to John’s house and play with his toys and sometimes he comes and plays with mine’- Ringo;
The Apple boutique…from take-away to give-away;
The enigmatic Yoko;
Paul talking about the White Album;
Great and turbulent times at Apple;
‘If George leaves, he leaves…’ said John, during the unhappy filming of Let It Be;
On the roof - the last gig;
Paul marries Linda and John marries Yoko;
The Ballad of John and Yoko;
There are various ways of doing business…and there’s Allen Klein’s way.
Elvis, Dylan, John Lennon and me;
Paul talks about the Abbey Road album;
‘Paul is dead’ and John’s MBE goes back to the Queen;
‘I’ve left the Beatles…’ said John;
A weekend in Canada with the Lennons;
‘You’re the journalist, not me…’ said John;
Paul on ‘Why the Beatles broke up’;
John and 'the Ignoble Alf';
John talking about his songs;
John…‘performing flea’ or ‘crutch for the world’s social lepers’?;
George and the Concert for Bangladesh;
'Imagine that’s the B-side', said John;
John and Yoko’s early days in New York;
Michael X and John;
'No more four gods on stage’, says John;
Ringo in the movie That’ll Be The Day;
Paul on how he turned down John’s invitation for them to play together again;
John's Lost Weekend;
Paul and his favourite songs;
Paul – the Japanese Jailbird;
Unimaginable - December, 1980;
Mark Chapman and what turns a fan into a killer;
The story of Working Class Hero’- the Beatles movie that never was;
Twenty years after Sergeant Pepper - hit and myth?
Paul talks about the Beatles Anthology;
Linda McCartney 1941-1998;
The story of Paul and Linda;
‘That’s the youngest tramp I’ve ever seen,’ when George first went to the Cavern;
Paul back at the Cavern;
George is stabbed;
John, the FBI and MI5;
Hospitals, gangs, drums and Ringo;
Has Yoko whitewashed John’s image?
George the reluctant Beatle 1943-2001;
Paul in Las Vegas;
Liverpool Dr Winston O'Boogie Airport;
Mal Evans - the gentle giant;
‘That was so cruel, inhuman’ - Cynthia Lennon;
Pete Best…the man with a knife in his back;
My lost Beatle interviews;
A degree in Beatleology;
‘Save Abbey Road’;
Lennon the Unfunny - never;
Produced by George Martin.
The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive eBook Ray Connolly
Ray Connolly is an English writer, who wrote for many British newspapers, and wrote a lot about The Beatles, especially John and Paul, with who he became friends. His book, "Beatles Archive," a collection of a lot of his articles about "the boys" for various newspapers, gives us their stories as they happened, in real time.If you love The Beatles, the real guys not the myth (and, trust me, they're very different and just as wonderful), you should read it.Ray's book opened my eyes to the reality of Yoko Ono, the good and the bad, for instance, and the positive effect she had on John, a very complicated man, a true troubled genius. The book's an eye opener!
Suffice it to say Yoko wasn't either as bad as the myth says or as good as she would want you to believe. But their love was really real. And this book is simply fantastic!
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good look into the personality and struggles of each Beatle. Enjoyed the part where Paul was in prison.
Ray Connolly has been around as long as The Beatles. In fact he was a contemporary of them,and,as a journalist got to know them very closely indeed.He knew John in particular very well and they often exchanged phone calls. This latest offering from Connolly is a treasure chest of insights into The Beatles and comes with that confidence and authority of someone who was actually there as the events were taking place. It's a great read and a 'must' for all Beatle fans.
This is an incredibly honest book about The Beatles written by someone that had incredible access to John and Paul. Many of the stories are quite touching and really humanizes them in a way I have not seen before. Well worth the read!
I’ve read so many books about the Beatles as I’m the forever one big fan.
I can say that Ray Connolly did really a good job in this writing. It’s very trustful and pleased to read.
I've just finished Beatles Archive and i must say it was fascinating reading. Of all the Beatles accounts I've read this one really has the ring of truth. Thank you Ray for sharing your rare windows into the history of my youth. What stimulating memories you must have.
When reading this book it's nice to know how personally Ray Connolly was involved with a Beatle or two. His writing is not researched; rather, his writing came directly from his exposure to and his writing about the subject matter, the Beatles. He was a member of the press during the era of the Beatles. Because of this, Mr. Connolly had experiences (with John and Paul, mainly) that lets us in on a more authentic experience with the boys from Liverpool. He writes of what really happened because of his first hand interactions - professionally and socially - with these Beatles. This book is a series of his newspaper columns during this time. He oftentimes adds his current reflections to a column. A great read for Beatlephiles or not...easy, entertaining, fun reading.
Fascinating insight into a world we think we know, the crazy never-private world of the four most famous pop stars ever. Connolly has some really interesting tales to tell, some things I already knew about, some I didn't. I actually didn't realise Ray had written the screenplay for the movie That'll Be The Day, which co-starred Ringo. The most interesting stories, oddly, are those not about the Fabs themselves, but the people Connolly knew or interviewed who inhabited the magic circle in the '60s and '70s, such as Cynthia Lennon, Mal Evans and Freda Kelly, and the man who had his ticket to the carnival cruelly snatched away from him on the eve of The Beatles' success, Pete Best. There are some good interviews with Paul, John and Ringo, but none (Connolly says he now regrets) with George. There are a few blunders factually here and there (Lennon-McCartney, Connolly states, wrote Cilla's You're My World - er- no they didn't) and chronologically inaccurate elements (he says that John and Yoko did their Peace Bed-In, then posed naked on the Two Virgins sleeve together, while those two things happened the other way round, Two Virgins in '68, the Bed-Ins in 1969). He actually only came into The Beatles' orbit in 1967, covering their Magical Mystery Tour in September that year and then met and interviewed three of them fairly regularly, staying closest to John, still in touch with the Lennons when and after they moved to New York in 1970. It's a good read, if fact-fanatics (like me) can overlook the occasional clanger.
Ray Connolly is an English writer, who wrote for many British newspapers, and wrote a lot about The Beatles, especially John and Paul, with who he became friends. His book, "Beatles Archive," a collection of a lot of his articles about "the boys" for various newspapers, gives us their stories as they happened, in real time.
If you love The Beatles, the real guys not the myth (and, trust me, they're very different and just as wonderful), you should read it.Ray's book opened my eyes to the reality of Yoko Ono, the good and the bad, for instance, and the positive effect she had on John, a very complicated man, a true troubled genius. The book's an eye opener!
Suffice it to say Yoko wasn't either as bad as the myth says or as good as she would want you to believe. But their love was really real. And this book is simply fantastic!
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