STUART MACONIE - With A Little Help From Their Friends

Bestselling author and broadcaster, Stuart Maconie on the extraordinary characters who helped raise The Beatles to superstardom.

We’ve long been huge fans of Stuart Maconie’s writing and broadcasting so it’s a true joy to welcome him to Walthamstow Trades Hall to talk about Fab Four. With A Little Help From My Friends is - as you would expect from Maconie - an engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs is a tale that has become one of the core stories we tell about ourselves as a nation. The Beatles narrative has both shaped and reflected the country we live in today. Four lads from Liverpool have taken a seat alongside Shakespeare as one of our key cultural exports to the world, a world they changed and re-made in their own image in a blaze of creativity. But these four distinct personalities changed the world not in isolation but with more than a little help from their friends. Like all the best stories there’s an incredible supporting cast, and all the most compelling elements of the great dramas: ambition, power, triumph, disaster, heartbreak, tragedy, drama, intrigue, lust…and of course, love.
Stuart Maconie tells the epic tale of the people who made the band who made Britain, and along the way adds his own experiences, encounters and conversations that show the Beatles like you’ve never seen them before.

Stuart with be in conversation with Sian Pattenden & there will be time for audience questions and book signing plus DJs.

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