![]() That did it…like my father’s, “God hates a coward.” view…had to be done with it one way or another. Finally coming out and stating it was my intent to never finish the thing…a monument to how I felt toward the title. Each witnessed me picking it up, sporadically, reading a scant few pages before tucking it back in bed. Certainly, took two other very important women in my life, my wife and daughter, to finally get me off my see-saw treatise with the hardback. What she’d have made of it anyone’s guess. “Peter Doggett’s book about the Beatles split is a real page-turner” Even the Annie Lennox quote gracing the book’s appropriately fashioned Apple Records vinyl label cover art was spot on: Would have told her it wasn’t the case, in all honesty. The, “Life’s too short to read bad books.”, argument she’d espouse. The voracious reader that she was, no doubt mom would simply have told me to abandon something that didn’t interest me enough to finish it back in 2014. If my mother was alive, and took a gander at my Goodreads page, wonder what she’d have to say about this: The English music journalist, author and magazine editor who took a very intense year to write on the break up of my all-time favorite band. Had never taken this long to get through a tome in all my years of reading. ![]() “I don’t want to be on the other side of this.” ~ My wife quoting me as to why it took so long to finish this bookĭon’t know what it means to reach this point, in life or with Peter Doggett’s book. ![]() Book Review – You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup ![]()
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