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Ever since I was a child, The Beatles have been my favourite
band. In the mid-1990s, at the height of Anthology fever, I got the chance to
write a book about them.
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the mid-1990s The Beatles were very much in the spotlight, due to their Anthology
project. I had been a Beatles fan since the late 1960s, and the publisher Tiden
asked me to put together a Beatles biography for the Swedish market. The end result
was the book Beatles Beatles, which was published in the autumn of 1996. The following
is a translated extract from an article I wrote in issue 19/1996 of the Swedish
book trade magazine Svensk bokhandel:
"Born in 1965 and raised in
Jakobsberg just north of Stockholm, I spent a great deal of my childhood and teenage
years listening to records. I was particularly fond of The Beatles, and I can,
despite my relative youth, claim that I liked them while they still existed as
a group. There is a tape recording from 1968 where one of my older sisters 'interviews'
me and I state that Lady Madonna by The Beatles is my favourite song at the time.
Out of all this listening to their music grew a desire to know more about
the group, and in 1972, when I was seven years old, I got my first Beatles book,
The Beatles, by Hunter Davies. The realisation that I myself 24 years later will
become one of the few authors to get books published about the group in Swedish
fills me both with pride and with a certain awe.
My book, Beatles Beatles,
unlike the more analytical work that has been translated from English in recent
years, reads like a basic biography about the group. It is a straightforward account
of their story, beginning with the day in July 1957 when John Lennon and Paul
McCartney met each other, up until the group's 'reunion' during the past year.
In the book I put The Beatles' visits to Sweden in 1963 and 1964 in the spotlight,
and I also make a few comparisons between 'then and now', in the hope that younger
readers will find it easier to understand the story of The Beatles. I can only
hope that this group, that I have loved all my life, has been done justice by
my book."
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Published by Tiden, autumn 1996. Swedish language. 188 pp. 23,5
x 16 cm. ISBN: 91-88876-26-8. Out of print (copies
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