‘Some kind of innocence’: The Beatles Monthly and the fan community

Michael Kirkup

doi:10.1558/pomh.v9i1.27620

‘Some kind of innocence’: The Beatles Monthly and the fan community

Michael Kirkup

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The Beatles Book has been overlooked in both academic research and popular biographies of the Beatles. Over 77 monthly issues between 1963 and 1979, the magazine told the Beatles story at it happened, giving modern readers a unique chance to follow the story without hindsight. This article looks in detail at the content of the magazine and its historical and social context: its beginnings as a form of ‘pop propaganda’, issues of fandom and the communication between fans and the band and the treatment of the change in the Beatles image in early 1967.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	-
Journal	Popular Music History
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v9i1.27620
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2015

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