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Author:	Lew Baxter
Title:	Allan Williams Is... The Fool On The Hill
Subtitle:	...How The Beat Went On After His Big Beatles Blunder
Publisher:	Praxis
Country:	UK
Date:	2003
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Biography, Music
ISBN-10:	0953199517
Barcode:	9780953199518
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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244 pages. Book dimensions: 16.2 cms x 2.2 cms x 23.7 cms.

From the dust jacket:

Allan Williams will forever be infamously known as The Man Who the Beatles Away. Now in his 70s Allan is still fighting fit, despite enduring a quadruple, life saving, heart bypass. It is more than forty years since he made that famous decision to 'ditch' the Beatles and allow Brian Epstein the chance to turn them into worldwide mega-stars.

Allan was undoubtedly the first to recognise the precocious and precious talent of the Beatles and as their first manager had the foresight to shape their musical characters by sending them to Hamburg to work the nightclubs of the city's St Pauli red light district.

Over the ensuing years Allan Williams - who still lives in Liverpool - has caroused around the world telling Beatles and music fans about his disastrous decision, ranked amongst the top five business blunders ever.

This new book tracks those wacky - some barely believable - experiences, infuriating many but bewitching others with his antics and his tales. It is the story of a maverick who has survived in the shadow of the world's greatest band.

But for all that, it is a story of hope and resilience and you will laugh - maybe even cry - at the adventures and misfortunes of this astonishing 'never say die' character who has never really been bitter about fate's fickle finger.

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