Kessler narrates all of this in her nine-part series on Lennon, which uses a novel format to Lennon's biography...her series of books are thoroughly researched, factual and annotated, she said.
"I started in 1986, it published in 2008, that was doing research, editing, going to Liverpool for seven years to do the interviews. The second book took another three and a half years after that. And now I'm working on the third book."
It's a project she estimates will take 46 years to complete. She's planned a nine-book "factional" series to document Lennon's life in a novel format.So...putting together this project will take 6 years longer than Lennon's actual life lasted. Hmm.
Anyhoo, I reckon that's all fine and good, and I don't wanna be "that guy" but then I see this:
"The Beatles are a perfect example of that kind of 'overnight success,'" Kessler said. "On the 8th of February, 1964, they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show; 73,700,000 people tuned in, the largest television audience that had ever watched a program before in the United States. They played three songs, then went to commercial, then played one more song. So if you total that up, that comes to about 10.5 minutes," Kessler said.
"Not one single crime was committed (in New York) during that 10 minutes. Everybody was tuned in to that show. The next morning the papers read: 'Beatles: Overnight success.' But you know what? That overnight success started with ... John Lennon in 1957."Umm...they played FIVE songs on Ed Sullivan that night, not four. All My Loving/Til There Was You/She Loves You/I Saw Her Standing There/I Want To Hold Your Hand. Enjoy the full story HERE (as well as the 1999000 books written about them.) So this woman has dedicated her life to studying every minute detail of John Lennon's life, and she gets THIS wrong? Really?
On a side note, their concert in DC a few days later is coming to movie theaters! :)
On February 11, 1964, two days after their record shattering appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," The Beatles traveled by train through a snowstorm to Washington, D.C. to perform their first-ever concert before an American audience at The Washington Coliseum, before an overbooked audience of 8,092 screaming (mostly female) teenagers. Their 12-song set that lasted a little over a half-hour and included both chart-topping originals like "She Loves You" and high-energy covers like "Twist and Shout." Professionally filmed by an eight-camera crew and mixed live on location, the show was broadcast a month later via closed-circuit to movie theaters across America to two million teenagers. The film of the concert was then lost and remained unseen in its entirety by audiences for over 47 years! The original master tapes have now been restored and re-mastered and the entire concert, the ONLY complete Beatles concert available to fans, is included in The Beatles: The Lost Concert.Reminds me of when I saw A Hard Days Night at the Film Forum, complete with people yelling and screaming at the screen. Awesome.
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