The Brian Epstein Story

by Debbie Geller (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $21.16

  A biography of the manager of The Beatles, a Jewish homosexual who drank, gambled compulsively and took drugs to excess, but had the capacity to charm. The book portrays a man tormented by arrest, beatings and blackmail, from his teenage years to his suicide.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $38.87

  Without the determination, magnetism, vision, good manners, respectable clothes and financial security of Brian Epstein, no one would ever have heard of John, Paul, Ringo and George. In Liverpool, in December 1961, Brian Epstein met the Beatles in his small office and signed a management deal. The rest may be history, but it's a history that Epstein created, along with a blueprint for all pop groups ever since. As Paul McCartney once said, 'If anyone was the fifth Beatle it was Brian.' This book tells the story of Epstein's complicated life through the reminiscences of his friends and family. Based on dozens of interviews - with Paul McCartney, George Martin and Marianne Faithfull, among others - plus many of Epstein's personal diaries, this book uncovers the truth behind the enigmatic young man who unintentionally caused a cultural revolution. And in the process destroyed himself.