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Unusual Beatles Resources

Unusual Beatles Resources

Sure it was a million years ago, but the Beatles are still interesting. Some of the Beatles resources in the Internet Archive are outside the mainstream and pretty worthwhile.

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Scott Fitzgerald • by Andrew Turnbull

Scott Fitzgerald • by Andrew Turnbull

Borrow for free. As a child, acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd actually knew the young F. Scott Fitzgerald, who rented a house on Ackroyd’s family estate.

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Zanies: The World’s Greatest Eccentrics • by Jay Robert Nash

Zanies: The World’s Greatest Eccentrics • by Jay Robert Nash

Borrow for free. The dozens of profiles of great eccentrics include many well-known people such as W.C. Fields, Henry Ford, J. Edgar Hoover, Nikola Tesla, and Edgar Allen Poe, along with people you’ve never heard of who have done zany things, such as Matthew (Lord Rokeby) Robinson, who spent every day, from dawn to dusk, immersed in the sea.

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Are You Anybody? Conversations with Wives of Celebrities • by Marilyn Funt

Are You Anybody? Conversations with Wives of Celebrities • by Marilyn Funt

Borrow for free. A collection of interviews with wives of celebrities, focused on the challenges of being in a marriage with someone who’s much more celebrated than you are, but covering a lot of interesting territory.

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I, Fellini • by Charlotte Chandler

I, Fellini • by Charlotte Chandler

Borrow for free. “Everyone lives in his own fantasy world, but most people don’t understand that,” says film director Federico Fellini. “No one perceives the real world. Each person simply calls his private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world. I prefer it that way and resent anything that disturbs my vision.”

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Interviews with Icons: Flashing on the Sixties • by Lisa Law

Interviews with Icons: Flashing on the Sixties • by Lisa Law

Borrow for free. Lisa Law is a skillful interviewer who brings out the shining personalities and wild reminiscences of these counterculture trailblazers, as she talks to them about the 60s.

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The Norton Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day • edited by Christopher Silvester

The Norton Book of Interviews: An Anthology from 1859 to the Present Day • edited by Christopher Silvester

Borrow for free. Over 80 interviews with people prominent in fairly recent history: Thomas Edison, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Mao Tse-Tung, William Burroughs, Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Groucho Marx….

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