Shout!

Philip Norman's SHOUT! is the original definitive work on the Fab Four - brilliantly written, encapsulating an era, and reflecting close personal working relationships with each of the protagonists.

PHILIP NORMAN has an international reputation as a chronicler of pop music and culture. Shout!, his ground-breaking biography of the Beatles, has remained continuously in print, selling more than one million copies, and was recently listed by Waterstones bookshops as one of the 100 best biographies in any genre. He has since written acclaimed books about the Rolling Stones. Elton John, Buddy Holly John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Sir Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. Philip is also an award-winning fiction-writer (included among the first Top 20 'Best of Young British Novelists') and a playwright whose works have appeared on BBC2 and Radio 4. He has also written two musicals. Philip currently lives in London.

Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements Section - ii: Prologue September 2001: Across the Universe Unit - i: Part One: WISHING Chapter - 1: 'He was the one I'd waited for' Chapter - 2: 'Quarry Men, strong before our birth' Chapter - 3: 'If I'd just said a few more words, it might have saved her' Chapter - 4: 'The bass drum used to roll away across the stage' Chapter - 5: The Great Freedom Chapter - 6: 'Hi, all you Cavern-dwellers. Welcome to the best of cellars' Unit - ii: Part Two: GETTING Chapter - 7: 'What brings Mr Epstein here?' Chapter - 8: 'Elvis's manager calling Brian Epstein in Birkenhead' Chapter - 9: 'Somebody had to pay for those 10,000 records Brian bought' Chapter - 10: 'Four frenzied Little Lord Fauntleroys who are earning £5,000 a week' Chapter - 11: 'Even the jelly babies are symbolic' Chapter - 12: 'They've got everything over there. What do they want us for?' Unit - iii: Part Three: HAVING Chapter - 13: 'One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life' Chapter - 14: 'This is it. This is the last one ever' Chapter - 15: 'I don't think there was any hope for him since the day he met the Beatles' Unit - iv: Part Four: WASTING Chapter - 16: 'We've got to spend two million or the taxman will get it' Chapter - 17: 'Your finances are in a mess. Apple is in a mess' Chapter - 18: 'The Beatles are the biggest bastards in the world' Chapter - 19: 'Everybody saw the sunshine' Unit - v: Part Five: LASTING Chapter - 20: 'I just believe in me. Yoko and me' Chapter - 21: 'The freaks was right when they said you was dead' Chapter - 22: 'It don't come easy' Index - iii: Index