Can't seem to get away from Monty or Rommel!

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  1. RemeDesertRat

    RemeDesertRat Very Senior Member

    Whilst browsing the books in a charity shop last weekend, it occurred to me that I had not read a book that wasn't connected to WWII in North Africa since before christmas.
    So, spying a copy of Philip Normans book Shout! about the Beatles I parted with 50p and looked forward to reading it.
    Reaching page 211 I read that; "Field Marshall Lord Montgomery, hero of Alamein, who, speaking from his garden where he still kept Rommels caravan, threatened to invite the Beatles for the weekend to see what kind of fellows they were"

    Its a conspiracy I tell you!! :D
     
  2. 4jonboy

    4jonboy Daughter of a 56 Recce

    A little bit here
    The Beatle image
    Rock'n'roll music, of course, annoys most parents, which is one of the main reasons why millions of youngsters love it. But the Beatles couldn't possibly hope to outdo Elvis Presley in appalling parents. Instead of open opposition, the Beatles practice an amiable impudence and a generalized disrespect for just about everybody. They succeeded, happily, in getting themselves denounced in some pretty high adult places. The Lord Privy Seal indicated his annoyance. And Field Marshal Lord Montgomery growled that the Army would take care of those mop-top haircuts if the Beatles were ever conscripted.
     
  3. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

  4. Red Goblin

    Red Goblin Senior Member

    Its a conspiracy I tell you!! :D
    Naah ;) must be a practical consequence of "the fundamental interconnectedness of all things" (Dirk Gently) !
     
  5. Cee

    Cee Senior Member Patron

    Reme,

    I was reminded of another Beatle book by Philip Norman, his biography of John Lennon, in which he recounts Aunt Mimi's memory of John's birth on October 9th 1940. It turns out she got it a bit wrong, but still it was interesting passage describing the intense bombardment of Liverpool at the time "that helped give the scene its apocalyptic quality in her memory".
     

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