Word: lennons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Epstein when he was running the record department at one of the family music stores in Liverpool. Managing a scraggly rock quartet was a sideline. Epstein exalted the Beatles, of course, and was consumed by them. He was smitten with them all, and almost crazily in love with John Lennon. Brown attended at the beginning of all this and stayed past the end, when the Beatles set out on separate paths and their company, Apple, just went bad at the core. Brown was a Beatles businessman-executive director of their management company, NEMS Enterprises, and director of Apple...
...Incest." Ringo was a dedicated jet-setter whose solid but unexceptional drumming talents were eventually unequal to the demands of the more complex Beatles music; Paul had to dub in Ringo's parts in the studio. Epstein agonized over a merchandising deal that lost the Beatles millions, but Lennon consoled himself with cash delivered by concert promoters in brown paper bags. Epstein took 25%, and the band got the rest. As young, hungry rockers playing in Hamburg, West Germany, the Beatles contracted, and were cured of, any number of venereal diseases. Later, rich and famous beyond anyone...
Shadowing and shading everything is John Lennon, who took the longest and most harrowing voyage of all the Beatles. He had finally reached a kind of peace and understanding after some sexual profligacy and a bit of doubt (he had, this book claims, a dalliance with Epstein). He had also been through the entire contemporary catechism of drugs and come out whole, and even a little certain. When he lay on the back seat of a squad car, bleeding from seven bullet wounds, and a policeman asked him the routine question, "Do you know who you are?," he could just...
...Harvard men's rugby team played what Co Captain Kevin Lennon called the worst day of rugby that we have played in the last three years as the ruggers lost to Brown 21-6 in the Ivy League championship game Saturday in Providence...
...Said Lennon, "This is the most important weekend, but we can't change things. If we can get by this weekend we can field a much better team...