Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Philip Norman is the author of classic rock biographies The Stones and Sir Elton and the highly-acclaimed memoir Babycham Night . He is also an award-winning novelist and writes regularly for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail.