Aaron, Arthur – see Bernstein, Sid and Arthur Aaron

Acevedo, Gus (1980), All My Loving: A Poetic Tribute to John Lennon and the Beatles, Island Heights, New Jersey: Broken Heart Publishing. This text appears to have been published as a very limited edition.

Achard, Maurice (1998), Pour John Lennon, France: Flammarion. A guitar tutor text from one of France’s leading guitar teachers, this is devoted solely to the music of John Lennon.

Acker, Steve (1981), ‘John Ono Lennon’, in Lyn Belanger, Michael Brecher, Jo Kearns, Nicholas Locke and Mike Shatzkin [eds.] (1981), A Tribute to John Lennon 1940-1980, London: Proteus. This Lennon tribute article was originally published in The Capital Reporter newspaper of Jackson, Mississippi.

Adams, Lee – see Strouse, Charles and Lee Adams

Adams, Mike (1991), Apple & Beatle Collectibles: An International Guide to Values of Beatles & Associated Records Including Full Solo Career & Apple Label Discographies, London: Perry & Perry Publishing – illustrated. This is an interesting volume from the series of ‘Neil Perry Guides’ aimed at the innumerable Apple label collectors out there. As one might imagine, it is in constant need of updating, which ultimately renders it something of a collectors’ item in its own right. These days this is a rather difficult text to obtain, other than via dealers.

Adams, Roy (2004), Hard Nights: My Life in Liverpool Clubland – High Dives to Low Dives, the Cavern and Nightlife, www.cavernmanpublications [UK]. This is a moderately interesting piece of work from the owner of club-land properties in Liverpool’s Mathew Street, site of the Cavern Club where the Beatles and many other groups played. Adams was involved in establishing the New Cavern (following the demise of the original Cavern club in the early 1970s), plus the clubs, Revolution and Eric’s, at the same premises on that famous Liverpool side street. Following the demise of Eric’s, Adams opened the short- lived Adam’s Club in Wood Street (in the newly-developed Ropewalks area of the city – see Gilmore, A. below for more on Ropewalks). The text is illuminating for its insight into Liverpool’s nightlife and ‘gangster’ fraternities, but is in all likelihood of only passing interest to Beatles collectors. It is of far greater use to the researcher of Liverpool’s varied popular music scenes, which informs the reader of the intricate web of property holdings and alliances in Liverpool’s city centre (irrespective of the actual club operating on the premises) that have always had a great bearing on the music purveyed and performed in the area over decades. However, overall the work is (sadly) rather poorly written, and required serious rewriting and sub-editing. This lack of proofing causes it, at times to be a little unrewarding and repetitive: this is a pity, for much is to be learnt here.

Adler, Bill [comp.] (1964), Love Letters to the Beatles, London: Anthony Blond; 2nd edition, also 1964, New York: GP Putman & Sons. This was originally published as a hardbound edition with drawings by Robert Osborn. Apparently, the source material – letters to the Beatles from their fans – was selected from a stockpile of over 250,000 letters stored in a New York warehouse. The project is a good idea and is of great use to the researcher interested in popular music fandom, and in particular the Beatlemania phenomenon in America; as such it is a recommended text. [MD]

Adler, Bill [comp.] (1966), Dear Beatles, New York: Grosset & Dunlap. The second volume of the collection above; illustrations by Ernest Marquez.

Adón, Pilar – see Aguirre, Leonardo, Miguel Antonio Chavez, Pilar Adón and Rodrigo Fresán

Agajanian, Rowana (1988), The Film A Hard Day’s Night, Bachelor of Arts thesis for Middlesex Polytechnic. This is an unpublished dissertation, included here because British historian Arthur Marwick states that he was ‘greatly helped by Agajanian[s], ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ (1998:835).

Agostini, Roberto (1996), ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. Un analisi.’ [Analyzing ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’], in Rossana Dalmonte [ed.], Analisi e canzone, Trento [Italy]: Dipartimento di Scienze Filologiche e Storiche, Università degli Studi di Trento

Aguilar, Art (1981), ‘The Walrus Was John’, in Lyn Belanger, Michael Brecher, Jo Kearns, Nicholas Locke and Mike Shatzkin [eds.] (1981), A Tribute to John Lennon 1940-1980, London: Proteus 1981. This article-cum-tribute was originally published by the East LA Tribune newspaper.

Aguirre, Leonardo, Miguel Antonio Chavez, Pilar Adón and Rodrigo Fresán, et al (2009), 22 Escarabajos: Antología hispánica del cuento Beatle [Hispanic Anthology of the Beatles], Madrid: Painas de Espuma

Alcini, Fabio (2004), Yoko Ono. La Donna che uccise i Beatles, Italy: Bevivino

Aldersley, Peter (1964), ‘Pop Weekly News: Overseas Dates for Searchers – Liverpool Party For Fans; No Beatles Break-Up; Beatlemania Goes On’, Pop Weekly 14 (week ending 30th November), London: Milward. It is not the policy of this bibliography to enter every single article on the Beatles, for this would be an impossible and rather pointless task. However, here and there, several small items are of some historical interest. In this case we have a page of pop tidbits associated with Radio Luxembourg deejay Peter Aldersley (but probably written by magazine editor Albert Hand) recognising the growing significance of the Beatles and Merseybeat. It was written for the relatively short-lived British publication Pop Weekly. This was a magazine of small dimensions, published in London, but edited and printed in the Midlands of England (Heanor and Nottingham, respectively) to serve a regional readership. It was in its second year awarded wider circulation. For our purposes,

‘Aldersley’s’ small piece concerning George Harrison leaving the Beatles (‘No Beatles Break-Up’) is one of the very first seen by this writer to speculate on the disintegration of the group. Albert Hand ran the first Elvis fan club in Britain. He published in 1957 the first British-based Elvis monthly magazine entitled Elvis Monthly, which was aimed at the younger fan, sold for 1/- (one shilling) and according to Elvis expert Mick O’Toole ‘read as if it was written by a 15 year old’.

Aldridge, Alan (1967), ‘A Good Guru’s Guide to the Beatles’ Sinister Songbook’, Observer Magazine, 26th November. This historically significant article was basically an interview with Paul McCartney conducted by one of the most successful commercial British artists of the 1960s, Alan Aldridge. Intrigued by the Beatles’ lyrics, Aldridge had commenced illustrating a selection of them in his own inimitable psychedelic-meets-graphic art style. This item was published by the (then) very trendy Observer Sunday Magazine.1 Accompanying the article were several Aldridge illustrations and the public response was so approving that Aldridge decided to compile two volumes of illustrated Beatles lyrics and contributed several of his own illustrations to each volume.

Aldridge, Alan (1969), ‘Beatles Not All That Turned On’, in Jonathan Eisen [ed.], The Age of Rock; Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, New York: Vintage Books

Aldridge, Alan [ed.] (1980), The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics Volumes One and Two, London: Macdonald/Futura; New York: Delacorte Press (Delta/Seymour/Lawrence). This is a re- issue of both Aldridge-edited tomes, this time retailed as a two-volume set. The publication of this set prompted a re-appraisal of the originals and duly set in motion the collectability quotient of the first, if not the second, among dealers and collectors. Combined with the death of Lennon in December 1980, the prices of both editions rose exponentially.

Aldridge, Alan [ed.] with Ray Connolly (1969, 1980, and 2002), The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics, London: Macdonald Unit 75; Black Dog & Leventhal. This is an excellent period piece edited and partially illustrated by Alan Aldridge with many of the headers written by Beatles correspondent and authority Ray Connolly (see further on). The work displays a good deal of late-1960s sexuality. For example, a great emphasis is placed throughout on the naked female form – especially via the breast. There are also an additional 44 illustrations including, most notably, works by Ronald Searle and David Hockney. Aldridge’s illustrations in volume one were for ‘Nowhere Man’,’ Sexy Sadie’, ‘Taxman’, ‘Tell Me What You See’, ‘There’s a Place’, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, ‘What Goes On’, ‘Yellow Submarine’ and ‘You Won’t See Me’. Aldridge stated that he was inspired to set in motion such a project when he noticed how many disparate meanings the lyrics of the Beatles seemed to generate. He thought the line in ‘Eleanor Rigby’: ‘keeping her face in a jar by the door’ to be ‘pure surrealism’.

Aldridge, Alan [ed.] with Ray Connolly (1971), The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics Volume Two, London: BCI. Volume two’s illustrations were for the songs ‘Instant Karma!’, ‘Across the Universe’, ‘Cold Turkey’, ‘I Don’t Want to...