![]() Here is mind-boggling research and erudition. Here is a love-letter to The Beatles in book form. There are probably as many books on The Beatles as there are Beatles fans - and I’ve read a fair percentage them - but I can tell you with confidence that Revolution in the Head is, quite simply, the best. Actually, scratch that, Ian MacDonald’s jaw-droppingly brilliant Revolution in the Head isn’t just the best book ever written about The Beatles, it’s one of the best books ever written about music, the sixties and English popular culture. This story, would you believe, is a mere footnote in what I honestly think is the greatest book ever written about The Beatles. And for a self-confessed Beatles nerd like me, anecdote gold. “It was,” says McGuinn, “as if they had combined minds. McGuinn was utterly fascinated by Harrison’s reply: “Well,” said the Quiet Beatle, “we don’t know about that yet.” Note Harrison’s use of the plural “we.” Not “I don’t know about that yet,” but “we.” Harrison’s answer intrigued McGuinn because it seemed to confirm something that Eric Clapton, amongst others, had noticed when watching The Beatles: they appeared to move as one. ![]() ![]() Roger McGuinn, founding member of The Byrds, guitar genius and all-round sixties pop superstar, once asked George Harrison, circa 1966, if he believed in God. ![]()
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