Liddypool is the first major book to concentrate solely on The Beatles and Liverpool, covering their rise from childhood in the 1940s and obscurity to their triumphant civic reception at Liverpool Town Hall on 10th July 1964, when the city said goodbye to the Fab Four, their favorite sons, and shared with the world the most famous quartet in the universe. Bedford uses local knowledge and eyewitness testimony to chart every band member and name-change and lineup, from The Black Jacks to The Beatles: the story of the “Fab 27”.
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Liddypool is the first major book to concentrate solely on The Beatles and Liverpool, covering their rise from childhood in the 1940s and obscurity to their triumphant civic reception at Liverpool Town Hall on 10th July 1964, when the city said goodbye to the Fab Four, their favorite sons, and shared with the world the most famous quartet in the universe. Bedford uses local knowledge and eyewitness testimony to chart every band member and name-change and lineup, from The Black Jacks to The Beatles: the story of the “Fab 27”.
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Liddypool took me 9 years to research and write, because I was fed up reading books about The Beatles in Liverpool, and getting it wrong! I grew up in the Dingle near the bottom of Madryn Street where Ringo was born, and went to the school that Ringo attended. I now live just off Penny Lane and my three children went to Dovedale School, where John Lennon and George Harrison had attended many years before. I decided to speak to as many people who were there at the time of The Beatles, which is why it took so long! I interviewed: Pete Best (who also wrote the foreword), The Quarrymen, Allan Williams, Sam Leach, Julia Baird and Bill Harry, plus school friends and those who knew The Beatles. With rare and previously unseen photos, plus the details and photos of every venue, home, school and birthplace in and around Liverpool. It is the first and only major book on The Beatles and Liverpool, and, as it says on the book: "To understand The Beatles, you have to understand Liverpool".
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Best book ever on Beatles in Liverpool,
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This review is from: Liddypool: Birthplace of The Beatles (Hardcover)
David Bedford has done the seemingly impossible: he has retraced the Beatles history in Liverpool and has compiled what is arguably the most amazing book on the the Fab Four and their roots.In all, 27 musicians and countless name changes has comprised what is known as the Beatles. He dispels myths, interviews old mates, and has pictures of every venue the Beatles every played. This is not just a coffee table book but a valuable resource. Bedford, a Liverpudlian, spent 10 years conducting research on "Liddypool" and his efforts have paid off. Well done!
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A Stunner!,
By Judith Kristen West "Judy" (Pennsauken, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liddypool: Birthplace of The Beatles (Hardcover)
Having been a Beatles fan since 1963, I can pretty much say I've read just about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g that's ever been written about The Beatles.Some has been great stuff, some good, some mediocre, and some, I don't even know HOW they found a traditional publisher to actually print it! BUT...then David Bedford took a decade and wrote Liddypool. It's very true... as it says... IF you want to know The Beatles, then you have to know where they came from. David Bedford takes you there in an exquisitely done book with photographs even a long time fan like I am has never seen! FABulous! I bet Paul and Ringo even have a copy of this one! :)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A family album,
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I ordered this book on the recommendation of Jay Johnson, co-owner of Fab Cabs, a Beatles tour service in Liverpool. My wife and I took the tour after the National Trust visit of Lennon and McCartney's homes. At tine end of the day, we both agreed that there was but a handful of sites we had not seen. And, as a fan since 1963, I believed that I knew a majority of what was to be known about the band.Wrong...completely and totally wrong. It's hard to categorize Liddypool. It's an oversimplification to call it a history of The Beatles. Nor is it a gazetteer of Beatles related sites. However, it contains information that falls into both categories. It is also neither a puff piece nor hatchet-job about how The Beatles came to be. Finally, it does not try or provide any explanation for why Beatlemania happened. So, what is it? Well, let's say it is an opportunity to get answers to virtually every question you may have had about how the band came to be. This aspect is presented very early in the book when the author list 10 questions about the band, followed by citations of where to find the answers. Some may think this arrogance; some may think it's overkill. After all, who needs to know what 27 people were, at one time or another, in bands with one or more of the Fab Four? Does anyone need to know each and every site at which predecessor versions of the band played? Yes, there are people who want and need to know this sort of stuff. They're not all the people who journey to Liverpool for the tours. It's a subset of that group, It's persons who - in front room of Mendips - start weeping. It is those people for whom The Beatles were not just a favorite band but was a part of their life. And so, Liddypool - the name applied to the city in a Lennon poem found in his first book - is, to my mind, a family album covering the period from their births to their triumphant return to stand on the city hall balcony. The book uses copious interviews carried out over a 10 year period to chronicle how it happened with as little bias as I imagine is humanly possible. That's not to say there is nothing controversial discussed. In fact, I would be very surprised if mst readers do not learn something they didn't know or with which they might even disagree. The author's narrative is driven by the personal recollections by many of those involved; again some well-known and others virtually unknown. Period and current photosgraphs are interspersed; again a good number being new and/or less wfrequently published. After telling the story, the book provides a series of tours of Liverpool and its environs. These include not just the locations you know and not just the locations you want to know. It also has one of the more complete links of song titles and lyrics to places. A wonderful book, bringing the reader much, much closer to John, Paul, George and Ringo...and virtual cast of thousands.
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