learn even more when Volume
2 is released next year. Often
overlooked is the fact that Mar-
tin was only 43 when the Beatles
broke up. He would go on to live
another 47 years before passing
away in 2016.
Volume 1 takes us up to Rubber
Soul, leaving us anticipating the
stories of the incredible albums
ahead for the band and how
Martin dealt with the increasing
drug use and internal conflicts.
Womack says the next book also
dives into Martin’s work with the
band America and other proj-
And that’s where The Beatles
ects. While Martin will be forev-
come in.
er tied to his work with The Bea-
While music fans are likely to
tles his career did not end there.
more interested in the Beatles
“At a certain level, Martin’s story
story than what precedes it,
Womack provides a breezy read is the same as the four former
that is quite interesting, especial- Beatles in the sense that after
they last see each other in Au-
ly since most of it will be com-
pletely new to the average mu- gust 1969 as a unit - they’re the
sic fan. But the book truly takes sum of their parts and none of
off once the four lads from Liver- them ever reach those levels of
excellence again,” said Womack.
pool enter the picture. We will
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