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The One Minute Music Book Club. With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Beatles and the People Who Made Them by Stuart Marconie

I’ve exhausted the pile of music books I’ve received since the beginning of the year, so this is the last One Minute Music Book Club until the pile gets built up.

For this last installment, it’s yet another Beatles book. I have more books on my shelf about The Beatles than any other artist. Stuart Marconie, the BBC Radio 6 presenter and music writer, has written With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Beatles and the People Who Made Them. The title is pretty self-explanatory, no? Time to give credit to the people who helped The Beatles become The Beatles.

Alan Cross

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