With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Beatles and the People Who Made Them

Summary

A SURPRISING, CHARMING, AND KALEIDOSCOPIC HISTORY OF THE BEATLES TOLD THROUGH ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE CLOSE TO THEM

The story of The Beatles is more than just their omnipresent songs and their iconic albums. It’s more than the hair, the clothes, the generational defining spirit. It’s even more than Paul and John and George and Ringo. The Beatles wouldn’t be The Beatles without a little help from their friends.

These four legends didn’t change the world in isolation; like all the best stories, theirs has an incredible supporting cast—family, friends, managers, producers, publicists, ex-bandmates, fellow musicians, and more. These somebodies shaped the Fab Four through ambition, power, friendship, heartbreak, tragedy, intrigue, humor, lust, and—of course—love.

Stuart Maconie’s With a Little Help from Their Friends is the epic story of the iconic band through the people who made them, from childhood days in Liverpool through the crucible of Hamburg and on to international superstardom. It’s a charming mosaic of a book—a fresh look at The Beatles, drawing on deep knowledge and written with passion.

“Sublime, succinct, and insightful."—Jim Derogatis, cohost of Sound Opinions and author of Let It Blurt