Today, the mustache beneath Mark Lewisohn’s nose is all his own. Pepper “while trying not to dislodge the cardboard mustache clenched under his nose,” he was last seen as “a serious young man of twenty-two who holds the title ‘Beatle Brain of Britain,’ so labyrinthine is his knowledge of their music and history.”īut within a decade of Norman’s book, the “serious young man” had achieved broad renown as the acknowledged world authority on All Things Beatle. First glimpsed as an eight-year-old in the summer of 1967, dancing in the back yard to Sgt. Reading Philip Norman’s Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation in 1982, I was slightly disoriented, yet nonetheless taken, by its references to a British youth and Beatles fan named Mark Lewisohn-disoriented because I, like most Americans, hadn’t heard of him.
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