The Beatles Vs. James Bond (ele-king Books) ([text])

A highly engaging story about The Beatles and James Bond, perfect for adults tired of the same old rhetoric.

This groundbreaking nonfiction work, acclaimed by the British media, offers a provocative portrayal of two of Britain's greatest pop culture icons of the 20th century, still immensely popular and influential in the 21st century.

On the very same day, October 5, 1962, The Beatles' debut single hit stores and the first Bond film, "Dr. No," was released. These two titans of British pop culture, released on the same day, were polar opposites in every way: one focused on love, one on "License to Kill," one on "the working class," one on "fiction written by an upper-class author," one on "mop hair" and one on "7:3 parting"...and yet, surprisingly, they also intersected.

Bond and the Beatles clearly embody different attitudes toward class, privilege, violence, masculinity, and Britishness. But Higgs goes further, arguing that they are engaged in a kind of enduring "struggle for the soul of British culture." --From a book review in The Guardian

Author: John Higgs

British author, novelist, journalist, and cultural historian. Born in Rugby in 1971, he became a writer after working as a television director. He is best known for his 2013 books, "The KLF: How the Legendary House Music Unit Burned a Million Pounds" (translated by Yuka Nakajima, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha) and his 2016 book, "The 20th Century: From Einstein to Super Mario to Postmodernism" (translated by Ayumi Kajiyama, published by Intershift Publishing). His 2019 book, "William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever," about the poet William Blake, has also been praised. His writing has appeared in newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent, and The Daily Mirror, as well as music magazines such as Mojo. His book, "Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche," was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2022 to critical acclaim. Higgs currently lives with his family in Brighton.

Translator: Takuya Asakura

Writer and translator. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo. He became a writer after working as a director of the Western music department at a record company. Her books include "Four Days of Miracles" and "The Remains of You" (both published by Takarajimasha) and "Yellow Butterflies Dance" (PHP Institute), and her translations include "Disco Queen of the Cheap Apartment: Tracy Thorn's Autobiography" and "Face It: Deborah Harry's Autobiography" (both published by ele-king books), Matt Haig's "Midnight Library" (HarperCollins Japan), and Taylor Jenkins Reid's "When Daisy Jones and the Six Were Seriously Great" (Sousosha).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Start the Countdown 1945: No One to Talk to on a Rainy Day 1952: All the Darkness Within 1956: If Only I Could Watch Them Grow Up 1960: The Notorious Whorehouse 1961: Shamelessly for Pleasure and Money 1961: Overloaded

Part 2: Let It Blow 1962: Better Than the Beatles? 1962 Sean Connery (1930-2020) 1963 The Truth Lies in That Scream 1964 Ian Fleming (1908-1964) 1964 A Movie About Four Long-Haired Idiots 1965 Blowing Away Everything Else 1965 Not As Great As James Bond 1965 More Than the Sum of Its Parts 1965 All for England 1967 So What Should I Say? 1967 More Extensive Than Reality Gari 1967 007 (Shanty Town) 1967 Trying to Control Me with Magic 1968 On the Banks of the Ganges 1968 Yoko and Billy 1969 John, Paul, and James's Marriage 1969 George Lazenby's Hairstyle 1969 Paul Is Already Dead

Part 3: Aftermath 1970 Answer: No 1970 "Mother" or "Love" 1970 The Best 1970 Phil and Alan 1970 I'm Denying the Nonsense That Love Is Nice If it weren't for that 1973 Christopher Lee (1922-2015) 1973 The Problem is Bond 1974 In the Material World 1977 Even Risking Life for Entertainment 1980 Unbranded 1980 John Lennon (1940-1980) 1981 For a True Artist, the Way You Live is the Art

Part 4: Grow Up, 007 1983 A Symbol of the True Values ​​of the Liberal World 1984 A Red-Faced Good Job Sign 1995 Good Times The gap between them is just too long. 1999 Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999) 2001 George Harrison (1943-2001) 2002 Whatever happens to the pixels after that? 2003 Come on, Putin, join us! 2008 The Death of Strawberry Fields 2012 A common theme, striving for a single goal. 2015 The world's new great evil. 2021 Time to be dead. 2021 Ringo and Paul. 2022 See you in the next film.