Three Memoirs, Three Reviews
More leftover from my Brückenau days: book reviews. One of the books in question I’d browsed through before but hadn’t read it properly, the other two were new to me. What the three have in common is, aren’t you surprised, a Beatles connection; otherwise they’re widely different, though each struggling with the opening sentence ofDavid
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Indeed, and George was by no means untypical or over the top (looking at you, Mick Jaggers) for his day or profession, but that doesn't change the fact he did what he did.
Pattie also says many positive things about George - as I said, there are three Georges in her book, and two of them are wonderful people. Though again, I think she's naive when saying she should have fought harder for the marriage because to me it's clear that after a certain point George didn't want to be married to her anymore, though he still wanted her in his life to some degree, and the fact they got on so well after the divorce and he was so great towards her post-divorce depended on him no longer having any obligations, which freed him to treat her as a friend instead of a wife.
All memoirs - the Beatles context or in general, and since history is something of a passion, I've read a lot from many different ages - are incredibly subjective, and you don't read them for fair portrayals of anyone, including their authors. You read them to get one particular person's account of how they experienced certain years and people. The fact these can be quite contradictory only make the puzzle that is life more fascinating. (Hence Rashomon being a classic.)
The George and Paul relationship is one of the most intriguing and least written about to me. I have a couple of theories, of course. :)
Re: George and John, do you know the passage in May Pang's Loving John that describes George's spectacular "I always did everything that you wanted/where were you when I needed you?" outburst?
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