It captures the Beatles' comfort with each other. They're drinking and smoking and swearing throughout - not something Brian Epstein probably wanted conveyed to the young fans and their parents. Love Me Do is a fun read because it captures them on tour in the moment - and captures how they interacted and how they spoke to each other, and to the press. So the Salon writer is clearly an idiot - by definition. (But then, that Salon piece praises both Peter Brown's heavily fictionalized book and Philip Norman's wildly inaccurate Shout and harshly criticizes Mark Lewisohn's careful, well-written Tune In. They just sound like young and unpolished men. He makes it sound like it's a negative portrait or something. That Salon writer mischaracterizes the book. I ordered it secondhand off Amazon in 2012 for, according to Amazon's records of my purchases (a bit scary to peruse) a grand total of $18.48.
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