Baby's in Black (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Baby's in Black A fascinating, exhilarating portrait of the Beatles in their early years in a gorgeous, high-energy graphic novel through the eyes of Astrid Kirchherr: a photographer and girlfriend of the Ofifth Beatle, O Stuart Sutcliffe.
Full description- Publisher: FIRST SECOND
- Published: 18 May 2012
- Format: Hardback 208 pages
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- Categories: Rock & Pop Music | Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups | Graphic Novels, Anime & Manga | Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs | Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781596437715 ISBN 10: 1596437715
- Sales rank: 183,720
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Reviews for Baby's in Black
Little-Known Touching Story of the "5th Beatle"
Reason for Reading: I love this publisher. I love graphic biographies. I love The Beatles.
The publisher's summary does a more than adequate job of describing what this book accomplishes, even to the point of telling you how it ends. Of course, this is a true story and many will know the ending before they start to read anyway, but it would be nice for them to have left that off for the few of us new to this part of The Beatles' history. I knew about Pete Best and was vaguely aware of there being a friend of John's in the group at the beginning but had no idea of the Stuart Sutcliffe story. This was an interesting tidbit for me to add to my Beatles trivia. The story is bittersweet, sad and lovely all at the same time. Stuart seems to have been a very nice guy. The Beatles may have been quite a different group if Stuart hadn't decided to follow his dream to be a painter, but then time was against him from the start and we will never now what he may have accomplished.
This book is very much about Stuart, his love Astrid and the German friend Krauss. The Beatles themselves are background characters and used for there place within the tragic romance of Stuart and Astrid. Hardly a John and Yoko affair, everyone was happy for the young couple and wished them the best. The group was just hitting the ground running at the time Stuart left not leaving any time for sadness, regrets or bad feelings. This book will not really tell you much more about The Beatles than you already knew but it will open up a small hardly known touching story that shaped the lives of The Beatles in their very young beginning days (George is only 17 at this time). by Nicola Mansfield
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