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Harvard students considering inter-disciplinary work need only look to Spitz’s analysis of the band’s formation to see a master at work. The book does not begin with the creation of the band. The narrative begins in 1800s Liverpool, mapping out the socioeconomic formation of the city. Spitz uses this setting as a platform to describe the historic Irish migration patterns that brought both the Lennons and McCartneys to Liverpool...
...than 100 West End plays, it provided his livelihood. Despite the stylistic constraints, his lens would draw something alluring from the shadows. What came into focus was not so much celebrity as the public's fascination for it. In 1963, Morley was invited by Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Liverpool, where he photographed the band's birthplace, the Cavern nightclub, in the best portrait of Beatlemania without any band members: four fabulous nobodies, their doe eyes blinking back the light...
...Sellers and Spike Milligan, all recorded comedy albums produced by George Martin. It was his connection to the Goons, not his work on jazz albums, that first endeared Martin to John and the others. Another number in the show, "Eleanor Rigby," which takes place in the wreckage of postwar Liverpool, has a cratered, post-nuclear look reminiscent of Milligan's play The Bed Sitting Room, which was filmed by Richard Lester, who directed the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night and Help! That's one of the pleasures of Love for Beatle scholars: the ripples keep widening...
...further back, to Liverpool of World War II. We have already seen sailors in this port town climb ships' ropes to come ashore. Now we get the sound of bombs and artillery fire, before a Winston Churchill figure (irreverently dubbed Mr. Piggy) announces that the war is over. The girl who would become Queen Elizabeth II struts about in a cameo frame, a living portrait. (And a rude one: Her Majesty is played by a man, as we discover when she removes the frame, her wig and most of her clothes...
...Liverpool lightens up, and Britain brightens, when Beatlemania breaks loose in the early '60s. Guys in leather jackets and girls in plaid jumpers cavort around a Volkswagen car (a Beetle, what else?). The Fab Four, caged by their superstardom, are seen in silhouette, trying to escape from spotlight bubbles; then they walk off, duplicating the Abbey Road cover amble - cute. Love follows the Beatles through their phases: psychedelic ("Strawberry Fields"), Hindu-mystical ("Within You, Without You") and political ("Revolution," with images of protests, then the letters in Peace and Love literally disintegrating...