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A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles
From his first encounter with the sturggling group in 1961, through their meteoric rise, to his tragic, untimely death in 1967, Brian Epstein was in many ways the heart and soul of the Beatles. Much more than simply their manager, confidant, and group guru, Epstein helped create a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
A Cellarful of Noise , Epstein's long out-of-print autobiography
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by Pierian Press
(first published November 1964)
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Written in the summer of 1964. Certainly a different perspective.
While I am a massive Beatles fan, I am not the type who buys every book about them. In fact, I buy very few. There are so many now that you could probably build a house out of Beatles books without ever having to double-up on a title. I’m certain that some of them have been written just by taking an average of existing books and no-one has really noticed.
However, when I saw from an Amazon email (well played!) that The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein’s memoir, A Cellarful of Noise was available f ...more
However, when I saw from an Amazon email (well played!) that The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein’s memoir, A Cellarful of Noise was available f ...more
Brian Epstein was the manager of The Beatles. He made them take off their leather trousers for the purpose of putting on pant suits with collarless jackets. Along with their excellent songwriting this seemed to caused a cultural revoltution.
My edition of the book actually came from the 60's so there is no foreword or outside info regarding the writing, but I think Derek Taylor (Epstein/Beatles publicity person) wrote the text. Basically it's an afternoon read in how he found the Beatles. It's ra ...more
My edition of the book actually came from the 60's so there is no foreword or outside info regarding the writing, but I think Derek Taylor (Epstein/Beatles publicity person) wrote the text. Basically it's an afternoon read in how he found the Beatles. It's ra ...more
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One of the more curious aspects of Beatlemania was that there was even a market for their manager’s autobiography – back then managers may have essentially ruled the industry but they weren’t household names with Simon Cowell levels of fame, even Epstein. It’s a straightforward telling of his life to the time of publication, not quite hagiographic but almost entirely free of juicier elements – for obvious reasons of the stigma attached to homosexuality at the time there aren’t even allusions to
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A great window into the life of the Beatles' manager. It reads in the style of a Tiger-beat article which is unfortunite to some degree and extremely fun in other ways. The amount that he, likely intentially, points out other successes he achievied in the music business is more enjoyable than grating. It is refreshing in the lack of stabs he takes at people in the course of his life and no mention of vendictive Beatle fights (as he is still very much their manager to do so would be in very poor
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Not a noteworthy literary effort but an interesting music business book by a guy who (everybody now knows) managed to Beatles in their success.
There is one major typo in this edition when it mentions a "Peter Fellows", instead of "Peter Sellers" several times in the text.
Cellarful of noise... book full of bs
A dated and slightly odd humble-brag of a stitched together puff-piece "autobiography". But a part of reading about The Beatles.
Jun 10, 2013
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Interesting for more passionate Beatles fans, but not a must-read. Epstein's personal account sheds light on his own life, on the group's early history, and on the dynamics of its members that other biographies don't capture as vividly. For those looking for a more general biography, look for "Here, There, and Everywhere" by Geoff Emerick.
Interesting look at the band, and at Brian himself. But--unsurprisingly--he puts a big emotional distance between himself and the reader, and there is so much that gets left out and is lost in the process. Still, a must-read for any Brian fan.
I thought this book was a brilliant insight of the behind-the-scenes everyday life of managing the Beatles. This book was written by their manager who later ended up taking his own life.
Interesting to go back now and read his view of how it all started, as well as compare thwarted difference with thwarted books by Alan Williams and Michael Braun's from the same period.
Fantastic book, pity Brian wrote it in 1964 and never revised it later on , gave a great mention to the Australian tour in 1964 and especially the huge turn out in Adelaide
This one's on my wish list at the moment.
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