The man who gave the Beatles away

By Jamie BlairJeffrey SlaterJohn Tobey, et al.

Book by Allan Williams, William Marshall This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345270746
• ISBN13: 9780345270740
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lost Treasure

I don't think this obscure title ever made it into hardcover. Its circulation life must have been very short before having gone out of print. What a shame. I consider it one of the best books about the Beatles I've ever read, maybe the best (and I've read quite a few). This title weighs the creative influences that went into the Fab Four pre-fame, a story not told anywhere else. For example, what did John & Paul learn in...

Five Stars?? But Yes!!

How could I give 5 stars to a boozy little clod of memoirs like this? Easy. Since there are probably thousands of books written about the Beatles, it stands to reason that there must be a few good ones in the bunch: and I've looked for them. THIS is one of those few: it actually tells stories we haven't heard before, with the impressive authority of Allan Williams, a clubowner and crucial promoter of Merseyside Beat music...

1 of a few books on this fascinating period

I first heard of this book back in 1976, John Lenon said in an interview how the Hamburg days were his funnest as a Beatle, & if anyone wanted to know about them they should get this book. Since then 2 other books have come out about the period,"Beatle", by Pete Best, & "The Beatles Live", by Mark Lewisohn. Taken all together, the 3 books paint a vivid picture of one of the greatest stories in rock n roll history,(a side...

Should be reprinted every week

Full of lovely sentimentality and regrets and selfpity - a first hand document written by one of very few people who were right in the epicentre at the scruffy start of the neverending everfascinating Beatles saga. And Allan certainly has a sense of humour. His memory may be not completely focused on all accounts, but he was there, which most weren't (for example the endless list of pompous stamp collecting biographers...

Looking back in anger- *%$~^++@!!!

Allan Williams was the Beatles' first manager in Liverpool. He helped John, Paul, & George keep body and soul together as they were learning to play their instruments, struggled to keep finding drummers for them, and took them to Hamburg where they became the frenzied on-stage performers soon to conquer the world. After some disputes over unpaid debts, he grew disgusted with their ingrate attitudes and gave them to Brian...