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Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1) QUOTES

Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1) QUOTES

1 " John Lennon was everything his friends wanted to be, and said everything they wanted to say but wouldn't dare. John Lennon always dared. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

2 " George Harrison’s cautionary words are a constant companion—“In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

3 " The Beatles did everything with down-to-earth humor, honesty, optimism, style, charisma, irreverence, intelligence, and a particularly spiky disdain for falseness. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

4 " This being 1962, no one thought it odd to have a mime program on radio. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

5 " Please rehearse new material,” Brian’s telegram said. They chose to interpret this as “please write new material” and, in this instant, the Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership was effectively reborn. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

6 " I threw a strop one day and threatened to walk to Budleigh Salterton. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

7 " Afternoons were whiled away playing guitars to records, singing, reveling in the joy of chords, finding out how almost every rock song they knew could be played with C, F and G or G7. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

8 " And so Lennon-McCartney stood shoulder to shoulder as equals, connected at every level, their considerable talents harmonized, their personalities meshed, their drive unchecked, their goal in focus. They were a union, stronger than the sum of their parts, and everything was possible. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

9 " Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a young man of 21 well versed in “acts of a rebellion against the squares. "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

10 " Hindsight’s perfect vision is seldom clouded by context, "

― Mark Lewisohn , Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)