(1998 HELTER SKELTER PUBLISHING)

The 1969 Get Back recording sessions were an attempt to re-energise The Beatles
with a retrn to their stripped down rock 'n' roll roots, but quickly the project
turned into the 30 saga of a group in freefall. Carping and sniping, trudging
through sloppy versions of old hits, the fab four were coming apart.

Published in an earlier incarnation in the US as Divorce, Drugs and the Slipping
Image, this is the no-holds-barred account of the power struggles, the bickering,
and the bitterness that led to the break-up of the greatest band in the history of
rock 'n' roll. The Beatles would survive long enough to make their triumpant Abbey
Road swan song, but the damage that caused their eventual split was already done.

Get Back is a singularly candid look at their ultimate moment of crisis. It puts
the reader in the studio as John cedes power to Yoko, Paul struggles to keep things
afloat, Ringo shrugs and George quits the band. There has never been another book on
any musical group more intimate, thorough or revealing. ******* 7 Rating