A is for Apple is the name of a new book that, in the words
of its authors, aims to offer “…the most complete story of Apple and the people
involved ever assembled as well as a saga of the final Beatles years and
formative solo years.”
The books home page, borrowing from John Lennon, offers this
tantalising tag line; ‘A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.’
The website offers some advance pages, one of which touches
on one of my favourite subjects, when John met Yoko. Of real interest is that
the books authors state that the date of this fateful meeting was November 7,
1966, rather than the oft-quoted November 9. Furthermore, they confirm that it
was John Dunbar who contacted Lennon urging him to come down, despite Lennon
having only arrived back in the country, having been in Spain filming ‘How I Won
the War’, the day before.
The book also confirms that Miss ‘I never heard of the
Beatles’ Ono had not only met McCartney, the book cites the date of their
meeting as September 5, 1966, the day John flew out to Spain, but that she had
had contact with Brian Epstein as he had booked her to appear at the Saville
Theatre.
We have to ask the obvious questions; why is she so adamant
that she had never heard of the Beatles? And why does the date of the 9th
November always get quoted?
Another interesting snippet concerns a deal done by Terry
Doran, the used-car salesman, that resulted in him selling the rights to George
Harrison’s songs to Terry Melcher for nothing.
Hopefully the published book will reveal plenty more
nuggets.
