All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines review - from best man to muckraker

In this 'director's cut' of their 1983 book, which Paul McCartney burned, a former Beatles employee and a music writer appear preoccupied with stirring up scandal around the band's split The biannual Journal of Beatles Studies was launched by Liverpool University Press in October 2022. The peer-reviewed publication aims to "inaugurate, innovate, interrogate and challenge narrative, cultural historical and musicological tropes about the Beatles"; as such, it is a natural byproduct of the MA in Be...