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Review of Geoffrey Giuliano's New Beatles Book
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:18:22 -0400
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Sadie Hussein...
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I recently picked up a copy of Geoffrey Giuliano's new book about the
steve...
steve...
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Nice try Geoffrey. Yet another identity I see.
You don't even have the confidence to write under your own name!
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Beatles entitled "Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles".
Giuliano's lovely daughter Avalon is credited as co-author this time
around.
For those of you unfamiliar with Giuliano's work, he is perhaps the
single most prolific, most published, most widely recognized and
respected author of Beatles-related tomes alive today.
Most of you probably didn't know he is also a successful film actor.
Before I comment on his new book, I thought you might like to learn a
bit more about his film work as an actor. See link below:
His latest film to be released on DVD is an epic-length remake of the
Jules Verne classic "Mysterious Island" in which he plays the complex
and many-faceted Captain Li, a part he tackles with great panache, I
might add.
Here's a link to more info about the movie:
Ignore the review posted at that site, as it's unlikely the reviewer
actually watched the entire movie.
Now onto his new book, "Revolver: The Secret History of the Beatles".
This latest addition to Giuliano's massive body of Beatles-related
works is, in this reviewer's opinion, among his very best in terms of
the previously unknown information it contains.
It is essentially a unique repository of some of the juiciest, most
provocative tidbits of insider gossip published since Peter Brown's
"The Love You Make" appeared in 1983....a daunting comparison, to be
sure, but a fair one. The book contains fascinating details of events
and incidents glossed over in the major biographies of the Beatles.
Among the many revelations in the book are detailed, documented
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