Sam Leach - KEEP
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Sam Leach/Real Madrid remains 53 points on top this morning.
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Sam Leach:
Hi Cesar (Cbimbi). Real Madriod of websites !! That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me about my website. But will I now have to put up a Beckham page ?? Dave's okay.....but Posh?? Ugghh !! Cheers. Sam.
Hi, Sam... and I hope to say in a near future " the Liverpool F.C. of the websites " and congrats for 3X1 against Bolton and I still recommend one or two brazilian players [ search in Santos ] to start winnnig again cheers,
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Sam Leach:
Hi Mike Yes it is a good idea to re-read the book because you'll spot things you may have missed, especially now you've seen many of the places. And met the people of Liverpool who inspired the groups. Cheers. Sam.
Although my book still in some post office I already consider Sam´s book the best Beatle book of all ( didn´t read but liked a lot ) heh heh
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Hi Cesar. Your books will go out on Monday as I didn't want them mixed up with a huge backlog of mail. And thanks for your nice comments...even before you're read it !! And we could do with a few Brazilians but our Manager if biased on the French, Cheers. Sam.
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hi, sam 2003 was a terrible year for Gremio supporters.. at the time I sent Gremio stuff we were the last one on the table almost slipping to 2nd ddivision but then we won 5 of the last difficult 6 games ( against Corintians, Santos ) drew one and manage to escape from the hell... hufff... shock shock shock
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hi everyone! I have just now listened LIBN that was one of the Christmas gift.. wow... how nice it became " Long and Winding " !!!! and " 2 of Us" !!! great how much can a producer spoil a musician art, Mr Spector ( miles away from him Oliver !!! ) lol lol
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"Sam Leach" wrote Your books will go out on Monday as I didn't want them mixed up with a huge backlog of mail. Great Sam.. since I´m leaving to the beach for summer hollydays I´ll have them only when Im back so no danger of mixing the book with sand or a splitting beer on it heh heh wink
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Hi cesar I'm glad there'll be no beer or sand on them. And that Gremio escaped the drop. Have a nice holiday. Cheers Sam.
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Hi Sam how's your weekend so far? Mine's good, just put on Back in the USA cd of Paul's, it's great!
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Hi Sara Yes it's been good with all the family and plenty of eating...and drinking. Love and hugs Sam
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sounds like a good weekend Sam!!
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Hello!!
Hi Beaky (Buckbeatbaby). So you've got over your pre-Christmas dinner then ? Just in time for another one tomorrow. All the very best to you and yours for Christmas and 2004. Cheers. Sam.
Yes, I recovered. And ate just as much on Thursday!! I got 2 CDs Driving Rain and Band on the Run! And a Sgt Peppers Tshirt, which is really cool. And the Beatles Anthology Book. (Now I have the book, the DVDs and the CDs!!) Oooh, and best of all, a laptop! I'm using it right now, and it's soooo cool!! I saw the documentary on Discovery today about the Beatle Festival, and, of course, you!! I'm really, really, really looking forward to dragging my friends around to all the sites in August!! 21st Century Paul
Yeah, Queen played at the Cavern and lived in Penny Lane!. It's written in their official biography.
Very cool. I've heard some really early Queen stuff from my friend, and the Beatles were a big influence. You can hear it ... I never knew this before, but I'm being educated in the ways of Queen by her, and she's recieving a very extensive education in all things Beatle from me. All my loving! 'Beaky xxxooo
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That should be interesting -- it's not a surprise that she's tight with Norman Yoko book on Beatles By THOMAS WHITAKER YOKO Ono is planning to lift the lid on her marriage to John Lennon and the break-up of the Beatles. She has agreed to help top author Philip Norman, 64, with a book about her murdered husband. Yoko, 70, gave her blessing at a secret meeting with the writer, who made his name with the best-seller Shout The True Story Of The Beatles. A source said ?Yoko has agreed to help Philip because they are friends. ?She has said she will check the book when it is written, having given the project her tacit approval.? The source added ?It?s being compared to the way Prince Charles left it to his chums as to whether they co-operated with the Penny Junor book Victim Or Villain. ?The Prince didn?t give it official approval but raised no objections.? Norman declined to comment last night. And a spokesman for Yoko said ?As executor of John?s estate, she does check things quite often for accuracy.? Lennon was 40 when he was shot by obsessed fan Mark Chapman in New York in 1980. The murder came 11 years after he married Yoko Ono and ten years after The Beatles split up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Hi Beaky. Glad you got plenty of food and pressys for Christmas. And that you liked the Discovery show. Have one on me on New Years Eve. Hi Mike Thanks for that info on Y & Norman's book on John. It will be interesting. Cheers. Sam.
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I want to thankyou Sam for your work and efforts in giving the world The Beatles. Vince
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Hi Vince. Thank you for your kind comments. They're really appreciated. I am honoured to be a stepping stone in The Beatles career. Cheers. Sam.
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Hi Sam It looks like it's a Norman collobration with Yoko so Yoko can tell her side of the story. Yoko really and her pals -- the editor of Rolling Stone, etc -- have made it a goal it seems to elevate Lennon partly by diminshing Macca's rep. It doesn't seem suprising that Norman who in his book plays down Macca's rep -- and in another article basically says that the Beatles were all Lennon -- with them being nice and giving Macca an occasional song -- will be helping her produce the book. It makes me suspect that it will be another Lennon is God, Macca is nothing story. My whole point with this post is next time you see Macca or his people -- I'd encourage him to write his own book (he's toyed with the idea but hasn't followed up) and set the record straight. Macca I am sure would be fair and wouldn't take shots at Lennon. That's not his style -- unlike his detractors. I think it would make quite an interesting read. Sorry for a post like the thread from last year and know we are off on different things -- but every now and then the Yoko bashing Macca stuff bugs me -- becuase some people do buy her pals like the Rolling Stones attacks. Cheers! Mike
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I guess what I was trying to say would be I'd hate to see Yoko being the only one who gets to tell her side of the story which will live on in history --and nothing from Macca.
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Actually, ironically just found this article -- don't know if you know this book -- actually yours Sam isn't biased either. But, it covers the pre-hit years like it sounds this one does. It would be nice for Macca to talk about the hot Beatle years. Inside scoop on the Fab Four Neil Garscadden Special to The Daily Yomiuri The Beatles have probably been written about more than any other band--I think even Paul, the modest one, has added to the number of books about the group. While I don't consider myself a "fan," and I was too young to even be aware of their existence when they were together, I think I, like everyone, has a bit of interest in their story. I've read or heard various things about them, but it has always been difficult to know what was the true story, what had been made up, and what wasn't being told. So, while I was visiting an English friend earlier this year I was pleased to find he had a copy of The Love You Make An Insider's Story of The Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines. Brown was a member of the initial inner core of Beatles associates when the band was just getting started. He was with them when they became superstars, and was able to maintain friendships with the group's members even after they broke up. Unlike some other books on the band, this account is not slanted toward any one member. It doesn't pull any punches either, and each member is presented with his assets and his negatives. It's well researched, balanced, pleasurable reading, and you'll come away feeling more in touch, and having more respect for those four lads from Liverpool. Garscadden is the editor of "Charisma Man, 1998-2002 The Complete Collection." Ordering information may be obtained by contacting charismabook@yahoo.com.
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Oops found another review of that book which wasn't flattering. I guess we still have your book, Sam, which doesn't have a slant. Reviewer John Crawford (see more about me) from Terrace BC Canada Of all the Beatle books I've read, this is the most disappointing. Peter Brown gained immortality when he was mentioned by name in "The Ballad of John & Yoko", and I expected to get a good feel for what it was like to be inside the maelstrom of Beatlemania -- and for what the Fab Four were like in person. But Brown's portraits are one-sided and facile. John Lennon is described as relentlessly sarcastic and drug-crazed. We never see the warm side Paul and George often talk about, nor do we glimpse the creative man behind the songs. In this book, Paul is a sex-crazed skirt chaser, George an ignorant lout who is called "his lectureship" behind his back, and Ringo a lovable incompetant -- a "poor little man" who lucked into the bigtime, but was no longer good enough to play regularly for the band in the latter years. Brian Epstein is even more pitiable in Brown's descriptions, and we're told (without proof) of a sexual encounter between Epstein and Lennon. We're also told (again without proof) of an affair between George Harrison and Ringo's first wife, Maureen. Road manager Neil Aspinall also doesn't escape Brown's condescention -- his efforts to compile a Beatles retrospective from archival films is described as "pitiful" as he watched flickering images of his younger self during the heights of Beatlemania. (Wouldn't I love to be able to look at films of myself in my 20's cavorting with the Fabs!) The book is also full of inaccuracies, making me wonder if Brown ever actually listened to Beatle music. Sorry Peter, John does NOT say "I buried Paul" at the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever", he says "Cranberry Sauce"; and George does NOT play a "neo-Indian raga" at the end of "Rain". When you're presented with "facts" like this that you know are wrong, you're never sure how much else is right. Certainly, this book is not as sensationalistic or smutty as Albert Goldman's "The Lives of John Lennon", but then, Goldman wasn't pretending to give an "insider's view" of the band. After reading this, I can fully understand why Paul and Linda McCartney burned their copy in the family fireplace.