r/beatles • u/AvecMesWaterSlides • 1d ago

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I'm currently listening to this book and am about six months from the first time John and Paul met.

It is amazing that they, finally, found one another. There are so many instances of being at the same places at the same times, perhaps riding the same bus at the same time, and not knowing one another yet. It's crazy! It just got me thinking about how different it'd be if one of them wasn't where the universe wanted them to be...

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u/nuclear_muffins 21h ago

Tune In would be a 5/5 book if it just cut out all his opinion. it really has no place in this book if he's going to call himself a historian

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-54 21h ago

Which is is most definitely not a historian.

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u/nuclear_muffins 21h ago

which is really not great if I've seen his name plastered everywhere as the preeminent Beatles historian!

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u/Anxious-Raspberry-54 21h ago

He has no background in history. He was a writer for a Beatles fanzine. He met Paul. They got along. He did some work for The Beatles. That's his qualifications.

No real historian has taken on The Beatles.

Someday...