en-US Mon, 16 Feb 2015 13:33:13 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 18128234 The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting, tragic, and ultimately inspirational human story about the struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Brian himself died painfully lonely at the young age of thirty-two, having helped The Beatles prove through Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that pop music could be an inspirational art form. He was homosexual when it was a felony to be so in the United Kingdom, Jewish at a time of anti-Semitism, and from Liverpool when it was considered just a dingy port town.]]> 144 Vivek J. Tiwary 1616552565 Jan 2 3.96 2012
author: Vivek J. Tiwary
name: Jan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2012
rating: 2
read at: 2015/02/16
date added: 2015/02/16
shelves: m-press, biography, documentary, gender, globalization, historical, mass-media, music, pop-culture, civil-rights, fandom
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