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Author:	Deborah Geller
Title:	The Brian Epstein Story
Publisher:	Faber And Faber
Country:	UK
Date:	2000
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN-10:	057120130X
Barcode:	9780571201303
Total Editions:	2
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180 pages. Book dimensions: 15.9 cms x 2 cms x 24 cms.

Compiled and written by Deborah Geller. Edited by Anthony Wall.

© BBC, 2000.

Jacket photograph © Robert Whitaker: Brian Epstein with John Lennon and George Harrison. Anchorage, Alaska, 1966.

From the dust jacket:

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.

Out of the public eye, Epstein was flamboyant and charismatic. He drank, gambled compulsively and took drugs to excess. But people remember his wit, charm and capacity to inspire affection and loyalty. That's when he wasn't depressed, even suicidal. Epstein was Jewish in a society filled with anti-Semitism. He was homosexual at a time when it was a crime to be gay, and from his teenage days to the end of his life he suffered arrests, beatings and blackmail - all of which had to be kept secret.

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 - conducted for a major BBC Arena documentary, 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.

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