The Beatles Are Here!
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Joe Queenan is the author of eleven books, including, most recently, One for the Books.
Penelope Rowlands, the author of Paris Was Ours, A Dash of Daring, and other books, is the editor of this collection.
Tom Rush is a singer and songwriter with roots in folk music and the blues. His albums include the folk-inspired What I Know.
Anthony Scaduto, Bob Dylan’s first biographer, has also written biographies of Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra, and others.
Carolyn See, author of nine books, is a regular book reviewer for the Washington Post. She is working on a memoir.
Lisa See’s new novel, China Dolls, will be released by Random House in May 2014.
Leah Silidjian is a student at Mahopac High School in Mahopac, New York.
Gay Talese’s many books include the memoir A Writer’s Life. He’s now at work on one about his half-century marriage to the well-known book editor Nan Talese.
Laura Tarrish is a designer/illustrator in Portland, Oregon. Her company is Bridgetown Papers.
David Thomson writes about movies. His numerous books include the frequently updated classic The Biographical Dictionary of Film.
Vicky Tiel is a fashion designer and the author of the memoir It’s All About the Dress.
Amanda Vaill is the author of the bestselling Everybody Was So Young and other books. Her Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War, is due out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2014.
Véronique Vienne, a design critic and teacher, is the author of the bestselling The Art of Doing Nothing, among other books.
SOURCES AND PERMISSIONS
(alphabetical by author)
The letter by Vickie Brenna-Costa, as well as her comment on Facebook, are reprinted with her permission.
The diary excerpt by Anne Brown is reproduced with permission of its author.
The Bruce Springsteen excerpt is from Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin. New York: Touchstone, 2012
Barbara Ehrenreich’s paragraph is from Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.
America’s Beatlemania Hangover was originally published online on BBC.UK.com and is reprinted with the kind permission of the Estate of Debbie Geller.
Excerpt from “1976: These are the Days, My Friends” from Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes. Copyright © 2011 by Will Hermes. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
The quotations from Billy Joel—excerpted from a class discussion that took place on October 1, 1994—are reprinted here with the permission of the Trustees of Columbia University.
My Four Friends by Cyndi Lauper is reprinted with the permission of Atria Publishing Group, a part of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, by Cyndi Lauper and Jancee Dunn. Copyright © 2012 by Cyndi Lauper. All rights reserved.
The email dated 1/18/13 from Phillip Lopate is reproduced with the permission of its author.
The Greil Marcus text is from an interview with him in the L.A. Review of Books, 4/27/12
The Back of the Album is Copyright © 2005 by David Michaelis. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Rereadings, edited by Anne Fadiman. Reprinted with permission by Melanie Jackson Agency, LLC.
In Love with Gorgeous George by Penelope Rowlands was first published, in somewhat different form, in the August 2007 issue of Vogue.
Anthony Scaduto’s excerpt is from his Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.
Chic and Shriek Mingle at Paramount Benefit Show by Gay Talese, is Copyright 1964 by New York Times Company. Reproduced with permission of New York Times Company via Copyright Clearance Center.
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