Window Fishing
The night we caught Beatlemania
- Publisher
- Hidden Brook Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2015
- Category
- Rock
- Recommended Age
- 15 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 10 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781927725146
- Publish Date
- Mar 2015
- List Price
- $19.95
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P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none">Blurbs:?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none"> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>46 Words: P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Window Fishing: The Night we caught Beatlemania SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">is so populare it is now in the second edition with new stories and poems. It will be cherished by anyone that lived in the Beatles eara or wants to understand the significance of the pop fanomenon called Beatlemania. P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT color=#000000 size=3> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>97 Words: P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>If you are a Beatles lover, a music eficianato, or just a rock and role fan you should have Window Fishing: The Night we caught Beatlemania in your collection. This fine book of poetry and prose, edited by John B. Lee, the worlds greatest Beatles fan, will fill you in on what was going on in the hearts of Beatles fans around the world. So populare it is now in the second edition with brand new content. It will be cherished by anyone that lived in the Beatles eara or wants to understand the significance of Beatlemania. P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT color=#000000 size=3> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>120 Words: P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT size=3>FONT color=#000000>The release of Window Fishing: the night we caught Beatlemania, just in time to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the appearance of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sunday, February 9th, 1964,is an important cultural event. The book encapsulates a significant historical period with its impact upon the sensibilities of a number of writers from around the world for whom the Beatles were a major inspiration. The British band, banned in China and the Soviet Union, managed to sing its way into the hearts of millions. This book celebrates how important Beatlemania was for the entire world. Understand the significance of this pop fanomenon from the eyes and ears of writers from around the world, here, between these covers. P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">FONT color=#000000 size=3> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none">
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Excerpt: Window Fishing: The night we caught Beatlemania (edited by John Lee)
P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">SPAN lang=EN-US>FONT face=Calibri>We were born in an age of assassins. Our childhood martyred almost all the heroes that we’d had. Forbidden means to desperate ends have stolen every voice we’d loved as best. When petty monsters took up guns and shot the poets of our youth, the papers mourned an old romance. Who knew a time would come to name the sudden dead as ours. I was but a callow baseball-playing lad when Miss Myrtle Downie closed the classroom door to tell us that America had murdered hope. And then we saw the film. We witnessed television horror come on Sunday to a Dallas basement jail. That was the wincing day when I turned twelve. Then Memphis woke us weeping with the news of fatal balconies. We’d grieved, we thought, enough, until we fell like kitchen dishes dropped from shock too great to bear. The brilliant brother broke upon the floor as well. The list is overlong. It will not end. My younger heart surrounds a tragic hour. I talk of fallen names. I nudge at corpses and am saddened by a private grief for public shame. Who killed these men killed innocence. I remember J.F.K. I remember Martin Luther King. I remember Robert F. Kennedy. I remember them all alive when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed. I remember them well and fond and lost my adolescence blinking in their funeral smoke. That was the time the Beatles sang my life awake. Imagine that, this death of dream, with unanticipated mourning yet to come. ?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt">SPAN lang=EN-US>FONT face=Calibri>Editor - John B. Lee