"Tune In" is the first book in a series of three volumes
that aims to be the definitive history of the Beatles by a famed Fab
Four historian.
In a photograph in the new biography of the Beatles, "Tune In"
by historian Mark Lewisohn, John Lennon stands in a Hamburg street in
his underwear in the middle of the night, reading a copy of the Daily
Express dated October 1960.
"One of the things he read in that
paper was that when Eddie Fisher stayed with Elizabeth Taylor when she
was in the London Clinic, he slept on the floor in the same room," Mr.
Lewisohn said in an interview. "And in 1970, John did the exact same
thing with Yoko, in the London Clinic. He slept on the floor."
Mr.
Lewisohn could just make out the headline "Castro Seizes Envoy" in the
photo, so he tracked it down, hoping it would help date the picture.
Knowing that John Lennon generally read the Daily Express every day
cover to cover, Mr. Lewisohn read that issue, too, wanting to know what
Mr. Lennon would have seen. He says he loves the coincidence that Mr.
Lennon, unwittingly or not, re-enacted a scene he would have read about a
decade before. "I like the parallel that he read it, and then 10 years
later did the same thing," he says.
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