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Sedition
and Alchemy
A Biography of John Cale
Tim Mitchell
Written
with the full cooperation of John Cale and incorporating exclusive interviews
with important figures from all phases of the musician’s 35-year
career, this new biography by Tim Mitchell, author of There’s
Something About Jonathan: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers,
explores the man who has successfully transcended the boundaries between
classical and popular music. Cale’s music—from the Velvet Underground
onwards—has been a series of passionate assaults on accepted musical
forms, and his processes of deconstruction and reconstruction are illustrated
by detailed accounts of his albums, live shows, and relationships with
other artists, such as La Monte Young, Brian Eno, and Lou Reed. Exhaustively
researched, this work includes the first full discography of Cale’s
work to date and many never before seen photographs. A special cloth edition
with a signed and numbered CD of an unreleased Cale song is available
directly from Peter Owen Ltd.
October
2003, photographs, 5½ x 8½, 224 pages (Peter
Owen)
ISBN 0-7206-1132-6 Paper $29.95 xCan
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At the
Apple’s Core
The Beatles from the Inside
Denis O’Dell with Bob Neaverson
Introduction by Martin Lewis
Insider’s portrait of the Beatles during the Apple years
“Denis O’Dell was a valuable friend during some of the craziness
that happened in our Apple years, a man with a heart as big as his smile.
I remember our association with great pleasure.”—Paul McCartney
“A vivid account.... A must-buy if only for O’Dell’s
own previously unpublished photographs. Its strength lies in its portrayal
of a day in the lives of the biggest band that ever was.”—Variety
“Will be of special interest to Beatles fans mostly because of
O’Dell’s accounts of working on various unproduced Beatles film
projects.... A welcome insight into a small but crucial part of the Beatles’
artistic legacy.”—Publishers Weekly
Denis O’Dell, one of the original Apple Corps directors and head
of Apple Films as producer or associate producer of a number of Beatles’
films, including A Hard Day’s Night (just released on DVD),
Magical Mystery Tour, and Let It Be, has at last written
the account of his relationship with the Fab Four, from when he first
met them in 1964 to the group’s demise. A longtime friend, collaborator,
and business associate, O’Dell was on location in Spain with John
during the shooting of How I Won the War, hosted the press conference
with the Beatles in New York for the Apple launch, was invited by the
group to join them at the Maharishi’s meditation academy in India,
worked with Ringo on The Magic Christian, and witnessed first-hand
the band rehearsing, performing, and recording many of their hits.
At the Apple’s Core is full of new stories, anecdotes, and
insights into the dynamics of the group, as well as many previously unpublished
photographs taken from O’Dell personal collection: a remarkable account
of the making of A Hard Day’s Night; the story behind the
making of Magical Mystery Tour; the Beatles’ 1968 plan to
make a movie of The Lord of the Rings; producing the “Hey
Jude” and “Revolution” videos; how Let It Be came
into existence and its filming; the arrival of Allen Klein and the end
of the Beatles; and much more. Denis O’Dell has had a long and illustrious
career as a writer, producer, and assistant director and has worked closely
with some of the finest actors and directors of our time: Anthony Hopkins,
Sean Connery, Alec Guinness, Sidney Lumet, Michael Cimino and, of course,
John Lennon. Among his movie credits are Petulia, Heaven’s Gate,
and The Bedford Incident. Bob Neaverson is the author of The
Beatles Movies. Martin Lewis is a Beatles historian and producer of
the DVD edition of A Hard Day’s Night.
Available, 5½ x 8¾, 64 color and
black & white photographs, index, 220 pages (Peter
Owen)
ISBN 0-7206-1116-4 Cloth $29.95 xCan
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