STEVEN GAINES

Las entrevistas más personales, reveladas por primera vezAll You Need Is Love retrata a uno de los grupos musicales más emblemáticos de todos los tiempos desde una perspectiva incomparable. Peter Brown, amigo intimo de los miembros de The Beatles, y el escritor Steven Gaines recopilan en este libro una serie de entrevistas unicas y sinceras con Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, sus familias, amigos y socios comerciales ademas de Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison Clapton y Maureen Starkey, realizadas entre 1980 y 1981. El resultado es un mosaico de narraciones esclarecedoras, contradictorias, complejas y absolutamente fascinantes que dan forma a una obra de valor historico, cargada no solo de anecdotas y experiencias de los Fab Four, sino tambien de pautas para entender su devastadora ruptura.

With his signature elan, Gaines weaves a gossipy tapestry of brokers, buyers, co-op boards, and eccentric landlords and tells of the apartment hunting and renovating adventures of many celebrities -- from Tommy Hilfiger to Donna Karan, from Jerry Seinfeld to Steven Spielberg, from Barbra Streisand to Madonna. Gaines uncovers the secretive, unwritten rules of co-op boards: why diplomats and pretty divorcees are frowned upon, what not to wear to a board interview, and which of the biggest celebrities and CEOs have been turned away from the elite buildings of Fifth and Park Avenues. He introduces the carriage-trade brokers who never have to advertise for clients and gives us finely etched portraits of a few of the discreet, elderly society ladies who decide who gets into the so-called Good Buildings. Here, too, is a fascinating chronicle of the changes in Manhattans residential skyline, from the slums of the nineteenth century to the advent of the luxury building. Gaines describes how living in boxes stacked on boxes came to be seen as the ultimate in status, and how the co-operative apartment, originally conceived as a form of housing for the poor, came to be used as a legal means of black-balling undesirable neighbors. A social history told through brick and mortar, The Skys the Limit is the ultimate look inside one of the most exclusive and expensive enclaves in the world, and at the lengths to which people will go to get in.

From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knowsa tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decades best works of social portraiture.Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part drifter-mecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. In Miami Beach its often said that "if youre not indicted youre not invited." But the citys mad, fascinating complexity resists easy stereotyping.Fools Paradise is more than just a present-day profile of a dark Eden. Gaines journeys back into the citys social and cultural history, unearthing stories of the resorts past that are every bit as absorbingand jaw-droppingas those of its present. The book begins with a snapshot of the citys current excess (this is, after all, a sun-washed hamlet that boasts, on a per capita basis, more barsand breast implantsthan any other place in America), then plunges into the Beachs origins, chronicling the audacious rise of such hoteliers as the Fontainebleaus Ben Novack and the Eden Rocs Harry Mufson, the sharp-elbowed tactics of Al Capone and Frank Sinatra, and the Mac-10 shooting sprees of the Marielito and Colombian drug lords.From there, the narrative shifts to two wildly eccentric souls who gave their lives to preserving the citys architectural dazzle and creating its color palette, introduces us to "the Most Powerful Man in Miami Beach," and arrives finally in the modern day, where we meet, among others, a kinky German playboy who once owned a quarter of South Beach and publicly flaunts his sexual escapades; a fabulously successful nightclub promoter whose addictive past seems to have given him a portal into the night worlds id; and a gaggle of young sexy models, dreamers, and schemers on a mission to achieve significance.Evoking the Beachs surreal blend of flashy Vegas and old Hollywood glamour, as well as its manic desperation and reckless wealth, Gaines persuasively demonstrates that though the Beach isin the words of its most famous drag queen"an island of broken toys . . . a place where people get away with things theyd never get away with anyplace else," it casts an irresistible spell.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed, astonishingly intimate biography of the Beatles, as told by the band and their inner circlefeaturing 32 pages of rare photosTHE BEST BACKSTAGE BEATLES BOOK.TIMETHE DEFINITIVE BOOK ON THE BEATLES.NEW YORK POSTFINALLY, THE REAL STORY.ROLLING STONEThe Love You Make is an in-depth account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the bandand the best man at John and Yokos weddingteamed up with journalist Steven Gaines to present a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century.Written with the full cooperation of each of the groups members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairsfrom the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. Hailed by Newsday as the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives . . . of the oft-scrutinized group, The Love You Make reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDaily Mail - BOOK OF THE WEEKThe Observer - BOOK OF THE WEEKI can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown. -Pattie Boyd HarrisonInterviews so controversial they were locked in a vault for 40 years -The TimesA fascinating snapshot of the tensions still festering between The Fab Four in 1980 -TelegraphIt truly is a jaw-dropping read - Daily ExpressAll You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.

UMA HISTÓRIA ORAL DOS BEATLES A PARTIR DE ENTREVISTAS NUNCA ANTES REVELADASAll You Need Is Love é uma história oral inovadora de um dos atos musicais mais duradouros de todos os tempos. Esta obra é composta por entrevistas ineditas e exclusivas com Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, suas familias, amigos e parceiros de negocios, conduzidas por um personagem do circulo intimo dos Beatles, Peter Brown, e pelo autor Steven Gaines, durante os anos de 1980 e 1981. As fitas dessas conversas estavam guardadas a sete chaves, literalmente trancadas em um cofre - ate agora.So entrevistas unicas e sinceras, um documento inedito para a historia da musica. Voce vai descobrir os Beatles falando sobre si mesmos com uma franqueza surpreendente, como se no estivessem sendo gravados. As informaçes, historias e experiencias revelados aqui, e a autoridade das pessoas que com elas se relacionam, tem um valor incomparavel para a compreenso dos Beatles em um de seus momentos mais importantes. Nenhuma coleço de conversas como esta podera ser reunida novamente.Alem de entrevistas com Paul, Yoko, Ringo e George, Brown e Gaines tambem conseguiram longas entrevistas com as ex-esposas Cynthia Lennon, Pattie Harrison Clapton e Maureen Starkey, bem como com as principais figuras sociais e empresariais que viveram o dia a dia dos Beatles do lado de dentro. Elas revelam por elas mesmas os motivos da separaço dos Beatles.