Love and Let Die by John Higgs - ISBN: 9781399600163
Hardcover
Bond vs. The Beatles: A clash of culture and identity.

Love and Let Die

Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche

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  • Hardcover

    528 pages

  • Release Date

    20 December 2022

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Summary

The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and ‘Love Me Do’, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday, 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. For Britain to produce two on the same windy October afternoon is unprecedented.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399600163
ISBN-10:1399600168
Author:John Higgs
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:528
Release Date:20 December 2022
Weight:774g
Dimensions:238mm x 158mm x 46mm
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Critics Review

A daring, dazzlingly entertaining pop cultural critique … smart analytical and enormously good fun. There’ssomething provocative or revelatory on every page

– Stuart Maconie * MAIL ON SUNDAY *Strikingly insightful … [Higgs] gives us page after page of glorious anecdotes about Bond and The Beatles, revelations about one sparking insights into the other * i NEWSPAPER *Ingenious … Love and Let Die starts with a perfect coincidence [and] conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades * THE SPECTATOR *A highly evocative picture of the 1960s … Love and Let Die is a book to leave you shaken and stirred * INDEPENDENT *This is more than just a book about those two cultural colossi, the Beatles and Bond. It is that, and magnificently so, but it is also about class, art, masculinity, entitlement, politics, love and death. Humane, droll and wise, there is some brilliant apercu, revelation or connection on every page. A dazzling, daring, recondite and immensely readable pop culture critique – STUART MACONIEIf you take popular culture seriously, this is the book for you – JEREMY DELLERPoignant and entertaining … sharp and pacy… Higgs is a lively writer and has assembled many intriguing nuggets from six decades of British popular culture * OBSERVER *In pairing these pop-cultural phenomena, Mr Higgs is onto something. A brilliant meander through the British male psyche … excellent and illuminating * WALL STREET JOURNAL *A triumphant work of truth, heart and soul. Love and Let Die is revolutionary, spirited, shaken and stirred – SALENA GODDEN, author of MRS DEATH MISSES DEATHBrilliant – Frank Cotterell-Boyce * OBSERVER *Entertaining … an eccentric jaunt through the interwoven histories [of the Beatles and Bond] * SUNDAY TIMES *Here is an author who constantly reaches out to the reader, grabs their attention and doesn’t let go, finding connection in the most unexplored places … I was gripped throughout … Higgs finds beautiful threads everywhere … packed with small details and big ideas * THE PSYCHOLOGIST *Persuasive … The story of the power struggle between the working class and the establishment, as seen through the lens of the Beatles’ records and the Bond films, is a fascinating one … entertaining * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Lives up to the hype … both captivating and thought-provoking. A riveting read * SHINDIG! *

About The Author

John Higgs

John Higgs is the author of I HAVE AMERICA SURROUNDED, THE KLF, STRANGER THAN WE CAN IMAGINE, WATLING STREET, THE FUTURE STARTS HERE, WILLIAM BLAKE NOW, WILLIAM BLAKE VS THE WORLD and LOVE AND LET DIE. He lives in Brighton.

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