Do You Want to Know a Secret: A Fab Anthology of Beatles Facts

I've met them. Delightful lads. Absolutely no talent.'-Noel Coward, 1964 'In twenty years' time, nothing of them will survive.-New Statesman, 1963 26 July 1957; St Peter's parish church, Woolton; a garden fête: an unlikely venue for rock'n'roll revolution, but, at 4:15 p.m., a performance by schoolboy skiffle band the Quarry Men (later rechristened Johnny and the Moondogs, then the Silver Beetles and finally...well, you know

who) will alter the course of musical history.

Do You Want to Know a Secret? takes a trivia-tastic look at the Beatles' life and legacy: from strange-but-true facts to urban myths shattered; from legendary radio and TV appearances to what you can hear if you listen really closely to their recordings; from important figures in the Beatles

lives to rampant surrealism in their 1yrics. It's all here-the drugs, the madness, the MBEs . . . but above all the music. Packed with fascinating

and offbeat facts and trivia, Do You Want to Know a Secret? is an accessible and original guide to a

1960s popular beat combo who just happened change the world of music...forever. And a splendid time is guaranteed for all.