Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #571960 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Synopsis
Chapters include the religious upbringing of John, Paul, George, and Ringo; the backlash in the United States after John Lennon's "We're more popular than Jesus" comment; the experimenting with Eastern religion; the use of drugs to attempt to enter a higher level of consciousness; and the overall legacy that the Beatles and their music have left. While there is no religious system that permanently anchored the Beatles or their music, they did leave a gospel, Turner concludes: one of love, peace, personal freedom, and the search for transcendence.

Customer Reviews

One thing I can tell you is you got to be free...
There are thousands of books on the Beatles. Can there really be anything else to say? This books proves that there is. An excellent thesis on what most Beatle fans think anyway but perhaps haven't consolidated into words. This book should be considered a big hitter along with Macdonalds 'Revolution in the Head' and Lewison's 'Chronicle' as the definitive work on the Beatles myth.

Derek Taylor described the Beatles story as 'The 20th Century's greatest romance' and he was right. We're all now familiar with that story, but what does it mean? Can there be any meaning drawn from the intensely weird story of four ordinary lads from Liverpool and what happened to them? Any Beatle fan will tell you that this rich tapestry has all sorts of hints into self realisation. This book excellently goes through it all to reveal the meaning and significance.

This is not to say that the Beatles myth is a religion or that they are 'bigger than Jesus' but to say that their human story is so compelling and their success so massive that lessons can be learnt. It could be that for the religious reader the fact has to be faced that the Beatles success was so huge and their influence so great that such a feat couldn't be accomplished if 'God' (whatever he is as a person or God as a thing whatever it is) wasn't with them.