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...Rather than tread the sitcom writer route, Shenson and Lester selected Alun Owen, an acclaimed Liverpudlian playwright, to write the script. Owen was finely attuned to the nuances of the rough working-class humor indigenous to Liverpool, and rather than impose artificial comedic personas on the Beatles, he simply constructed larger-than-life interpretations of traits he observed in the individual Beatles...
There's an endearing British quality to the Beatles' voices in this volume, and that sometimes gives the anecdotes an Austin Powers-ish twist. Harrison remembers this story about the band's salad days in Germany: "Our friend Bernie came out from Liverpool to visit us. We were in a club, and Bernie walked in and said, 'I've just had a wank off this great-looking bird in the lav.' We all said, 'That's not a bird, Bernie...
Besides the freakish improbability that two of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century should have not only come from England (a country with a virtually nonexistent profile in popular music at the time) but would have come from - and met! - in Liverpool, of all places, the most extraordinary thing about the Beatles phenomenon is the unsurpassed ratio of good songs in their recorded output. OK, we wouldn't be talking about them at all if "Misery" had been their best bid for stardom. And of course, off-the-wall items such as "Wild Honey Pie" only make sense...
...Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" director Richard Lester sent the Liverpool boys down a ski slope with no more instruction than a push and a smiling, bald nod. They were lucky, after all, as all they had to do was ski a bit, fall over and writhe on the ground in rhythm to "Ticket to Ride...
...than 170 blacksmiths, sailmakers and carpenters have worked on the ship, often using such traditional tools as sharp chisels and broad axes. Of these laborers, only 28 have been full-time professional shipwrights. The rest have been students, volunteers and part-timers from as far away as Milan and Liverpool. The work has taken more than twice as long as it took to build the original. One reason: today's shipbuilders don't keep the sweatshop hours common among the workers on the original Amistad. Another reason is that the first Amistad, like many boats of the era, was intended...