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Author:	P. Willis-Pitts
Title:	Liverpool, The Fifth Beatle
Subtitle:	An African-American Odyssey
Publisher:	Amozen Press
Country:	USA
Date:	Nov 2000
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music
ISBN-10:	097031180X
Barcode:	9780970311801
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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302 pages. Book dimensions: 21.55 cms x 1.4 cms x 27.9 cms.

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Liverpool The 5th Beatle is a perspective on the rise of the Liverpool Mersey Sound and the Beatles by someone who drank in the same pubs and played in the same clubs as the Beatles. Mr Pitts delves much deeper than the average rock journalist to present an amazingly original comparison of Liverpool with Black America of the 50's and 60's, giving us an insight into how the social and musical conditions in our African-American community found a direct heart-beat amongst the Liverpool youth who were singularly responsible for the rise of the Mersey Sound and the incredible success of the Beatles. Not only is his book inspiring to minority groups throughout America but his novel insight into the Beatles and the ghetto conditions in which the Mersey Sound began has stirred avid interest in age groups who are quite mesmerized by the truth behind the Beatles' legend.

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JPGR&B SUBS 12th Jun 2023		Prem Willis-Pitts died on 13 January 2022. From the author: The details which form this book are drawn from my childhood in the Irish ghetto of Liverpool 8 and my first-hand experience of the Beatles and the rise of the Mersey Sound. Typical of my background, I was totally unaware of politics and the social movements which were taking place around me. However, after spending 18 years in the USA and getting myself two degrees, I now possess two languages: that of the street and that of the educated researcher. The truth is, it is the language of the street which best illustrates the theme of this book. But by itself, though colorful, that would not communicate the message. So you will find the book is laid out in more or less alternating chapters: a learned chapter of social research is followed immediately by a real-life street anecdote from actual experience which fleshes out the more studied chapter. When I first wrote the street anecdotes, modesty as well as self-preservation made me write in the third person - partially to conceal the identity of the not-so-innocent. My publisher persuaded me to change these anecdotes to the first person for the sake of the reader, and I do hope it doesn't come across as pure egoism. Some readers may find the language, the sex and the violence in this book disturbing. I cannot help this. It is not gratuitous. As black comedians from Richard Pryor to Chris Rock have demonstrated, violence, sex and obscenity are part of the ghetto experience and you cannot enter into a description of ghetto life without them. Why this should be so is a basic tenet of this book. The fact remains that some of the world's finest music and humor have sprung unexpectedly from the most sordid conditions, whether it be in Liverpool, Harlem or Watts. This somewhat original format is an attempt to show how two very different oppressed ethnic groups on opposite sides of the globe made a way out of no way and, in doing so, changed the history of the world.

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