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            JUST PUBLISHED - JOHN'S NEW BOOK

        AVAILABLE HERE

 

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The Closest Thing in History explores the surprising similarities

that exist between the biggest band in music – The Beatles –

and another fab four – the Younger Romantic poets Keats,

Byron, Leigh Hunt and Shelley – who were responsible for

shaking up the cultural zeitgeist in the early nineteenth century.

 

Both drew on inspirational figures who then turned on them,

(that's William Wordsworth and Elvis Presley!),

Lord Byron generated an early form of Beatlemania,

and both had interlocking creative relationships that yield

genuine insights when placed side by side.

 

And then, as we can trace the actual impact of the Younger Romantics

on history there is the chance to consider - if the comparison between

them has been accepted - how the Beatles' afterlife could unfold.

 

A fascinating must-read for all those with a

passion for music, poetry and cultural rebels!

 

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