The Aldeburgh Literary Festival presents a One-Off Special Event in aid of the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh

Join us for one glorious hour to hear Craig Brown talk about The Beatles and his new book: One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

John Updike compared them to “the sun coming out on Easter morning”. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkein snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Leonard Bernstein admired them. Mohamed Ali called them “little sissies”. Successive Prime Ministers sucked up to them. For Barack Obama, they “changed the way that we listened to music”

No-one remained unaffected by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her golden wedding anniversary: “Think what we would have missed if we had never heard The Beatles.”

One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key elements that made up the Beatles - fire (John), water (Paul), air (George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt Norman Pilcher.

A kaleidoscopic mixture of history. etymology, diaries, autobiography, fan letters. essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews, announcements and stories One Two Three Four joyfully echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.

Tickets £15.00

Available now from The Aldeburgh Bookshop

on 01728 452389

or

johnandmary@aldeburghbookshop.co.uk

Special pre-order offer: order a copy now of Craig’s new book, One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time for £15.00 and save £5.00 off the recommended retail price of £20.00.

The book will be available from 2nd April.

Copies will also be available to buy on the night at the recommended retail price of £20.00.

Profits from the ticket sales will be donated to Aldeburgh’s Jubilee Hall.

Registered Charity No. 1155896