
Another Beatles book? (Eye-roll.) Honestly, do we need it? Yes we do, when it’s as revelatory as Ian Leslie’s John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs. If you think you know all you need to know about Lennon and McCartney, this analytically sharp, vaultingly written book will make you see and hear things you’ve missed, and send you straight back to that heady moment when everything they did, as Leslie puts it, “felt surprising and unignorable and fresh”.
又一本关于披头士的书?(翻白眼。)说真的,我们还需要吗?答案是:需要——尤其是当这本书像伊恩•莱斯利(Ian Leslie)的《约翰与保罗:歌曲中的爱情故事》一样充满启发时。如果你以为自己对列侬与麦卡特尼已经了解得够多了,这本犀利、文笔优雅的著作会带你重新发现他们曾给予世界的惊喜与魔力,让你再次沉浸于那个令人陶醉的时刻,正如莱斯利所写:“那个一切都令人惊喜、不可忽视又充满新鲜感的时刻。”