
Another Beatles book? (Eye-roll.) Honestly, do we need it? Yes we do, when it’s as revelatory as Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. If you think you know all you need to know about Lennon and McCartney, this analytically sharp, vaultingly written book will make you see and hear things you’ve missed, and send you straight back to that heady moment when everything they did, as Leslie puts it, “felt surprising and unignorable and fresh”.
又一本關於披頭士的書?(翻白眼。)說真的,我們還需要嗎?答案是:需要——尤其是當這本書像伊恩•萊斯利(Ian Leslie)的《約翰與保羅:歌曲中的愛情故事》一樣充滿啓發時。如果你以爲自己對藍儂與麥卡尼已經瞭解得夠多了,這本犀利、文筆優雅的著作會帶你重新發現他們曾給予世界的驚喜與魔力,讓你再次沉浸於那個令人陶醉的時刻,正如萊斯利所寫:「那個一切都令人驚喜、不可忽視又充滿新鮮感的時刻。」