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Beatlemania Is Back: New Book ‘John & Paul’ to Arrive Following Beatles Biopic Announcement
Journalist and author Ian Leslie traces the emotional and artistic relationship of John Lennon and Paul McCartney through the songs they wrote
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Following the news that not one but four Beatles biopics will land in April 2028, Beatlemania is back. Or, should we say, it never left. In the intervening half century since the Fab Four went their separate ways, the band’s esteem has only grown, and the backbone of the band’s success was the collaborative (and at times contentious) songwriting partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
A new book, John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs, traces the band’s journey through the lens of the legendary creative partnership. It’s available for preorder now from retailers like Amazon, Bookshop.org, and Barnes & Noble and drops April 8.
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The book’s chapters are broken up by song, tracing the songs written by, with, and about each other. The last chapter focuses on McCartney’s heartbreaking 1982 song “Here Today,” written following Lennon’s murder. Author Ian Leslie digs deep on other tracks like “A Day in the Life,” “Get Back,” and “Two of Us.”
Notably, journalist and writer Ian Leslie is not a music historian. Leslie’s other work, Born Liars, Curious, and Conflicted, focuses on human nature, which is what gives John & Paul the tender, human element that goes beyond the raw talent of Lennon and McCartney.
Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield provided a blurb for the book, writing, “No writer has ever gotten to the heart of the John/Paul saga as brilliantly as Ian Leslie.”
As for the upcoming Beatles’ biopics, the films will star Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, with each film slated to arrive in April 2028.
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