author: Vivek Tiwary
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2014/02/18
date added: 2014/02/18
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
The Fifth Beatle is a graphic novel about Brian Epstein and how he became the manager of The Beatles. It's told at times in a surreal fashion, and there is even a character that may or may not have even existed. This is told in an afterword of the book by Vivek Tiwary, who weaves an interesting story about a man that so few no much about.
Brian Epstein was from wealth, and this allowed him the ability to find this band and help boost them into legendary status. By promoting singles, and even buying large numbers of them to help promote them. By creating the clean cut look of the early band and by just believing in what they could do. Brian was also gay in a time when that was taboo. There are secret meetings and affairs, even a hinted at dalliance with John Lennon. And there are the prescription narcotics that Brian used, and abused, and which ultimately led to his fate.
It's told so well, and the art by Andrew C. Robinson is absolutely gorgeous, transporting the reader right back to the 1960s from the opening panels of a rainy, gloomy Liverpool, right through to the end of The Beatles as a band. Of interesting note is the strange adventure the band had touring the Philippines, which was a horrible adventure. It's told here in a similar style to the old Beatles cartoon series. Good story, great art, and I'm glad I got to read it.
I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this book.
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