A career-long professional writer and PR consultant, Tony Barrow
was The Beatles' publicist between 1962 when they issued their
first single "Love Me Do," and 1968, when they set up their own
management company.
Barrow coined The Beatles' nickname the "Fab Four," wrote the
sleeve notes for a number of the group's album covers, set up their
huge international press conferences, selected their media
interviews and fixed up their photo shoots at home and abroad
during the touring years, and finally collaborated with Paul
McCartney in 1967 to compile the cartoon-strip story booklet that
came with The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour recordings. He is one
of a tiny handful of surviving eyewitnesses able to write a
first-hand account of life within The Beatles' close-knit entourage
and the only remaining professional writer from that circle.
Few were closer to The Beatles than Tony Barrow, and this is not
merely a biography of the Fab Four, but a unique and vividly
personal memoir by an author who knew John, Paul, George and Ringo
as friends throughout the height of their fame.
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