The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider Account of the Beatles & the Wild Rise and Fall of Their Multi-Million Dollar Apple Empire, Paperback Book - Softcover

DiLello, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1470615177 ISBN 13: 9781470615178

Publisher: Alfred Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Apple Records was a noble experiment created in the spirit of the 1960s by four musicians who came to represent everything that was best about those tumultuous, experimental, and liberating times. The Beatles started out with the greatest of intentions, but reality soon got in the way. Much has been written about this period in the history of The Beatles' evolution and dissolution---some of it true, some of it wildly exaggerated, but not much of it first-hand. The Longest Cocktail Party is a rare exception. Written by Richard DiLello, who served as Apple Record's """"House Hippie"""" from 1968 to 1970, this unusual first-hand glimpse into The Beatles' empire humorously chronicles the stranger-than-life stories that were to become legendary, including visits by the Hell's Angels and endless tales of celebrity antics. Alfred Music is proud to offer this latest edition, which features a new and insightful foreword by the author. Originally published by Playboy Press in 1972, The Longest Cocktail Party has proven itself a timeless chronicle of this most colorful period in pop history.

About this title

Review:

"It's a fast-paced, witty read that even Noel Gallagher raved about." (Sunday Express)

"incisive, evocative and hilariously funny. The Beatles are shadowy figures, but this is a fine view of rock's most inspired folly." (Mojo)

"Marvellous. If you want to know what Apple was like, this is the book." (Alastair Taylor, Former General Manager, Apple)

From the Back Cover:

"Marvellous. If you want to know what Apple was like, this is the book."
Alastair Taylor, former General Manager, Apple

Richard DiLello worked at the London headquarters of Apple, The Beatles' erratic enterprise in business and music, from the summer of 1968 until August 1970, advancing from the undefined position of 'House Hippie' to a brief and final role as Director of Public Relations. The Longest Cocktail Party is his candid account of the dramatic chaos within Apple, from the Hell's Angels who took up residence in the building to The Beatles' final concert on the roof of 3 Savile Row, and the group's slow and painful dissolution.

First published in 1972 and now considered a classic, The Longest Cocktail Party is an immensely poignant portrait of the demise of The Beatles, a social document of pop culture and a narrative of the death of the '60s dream.

"A fine view of rock's most inspired folly." Mojo

"Vivid . . . it views the band's disintegration with the same excluded bafflement with which Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern follow the plots of the Danish court." Guardian

Cover design & typography / mail@EstuaryEnglish.co.uk
Cover photograph / Don McCullin
Reverse photograph of author / Richard DiLello

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1470615177
• ISBN 13: 9781470615178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376