Book DetailsCountry: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Date: 2003
Fictional Artist: The Beatles
Genre: Rock, Pop
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: The Beatles
Jacket Blurb:
What would have happened if the Beatles had broken up in 1962?
It’s 1987, and the Beatles are gathering in Liverpool for a reunion. It has been twenty-five years since John Lennon walked out of EMI studios during the recording of ‘Please Please Me’, taking George and Ringo with him. Paul has since become the world-famous Las Vegas entertainer Paul Montana and he returns to a changed Liverpool for the first time since 1962, hoping to reunite with his boyhood chums. Father George, now a Jesuit priest, is recovering from a nervous breakdown; John is embittered and on the dole – his son Julian is a member of the semi-fascist National Front. Ringo lives on the earnings of his entrepreneurial hairdressing wife, while he and John sit in weekends with old rivals, Gerry and the Pacemakers. The streets are uneasy – the National Front has recently gone into government with the Tories. It is Lennon’s curse that he can imagine what might have been. Liverpool Fantasy is a blackly comic meditation on the enduring hazards of a friendship, the alchemy of collaboration, life as a musician, and what a world without the Beatles looks like.
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