I find all of John Higgs books to be deeply connected in what is it is to be human, his work is candid and clever, enriching and wise, Love and Let Die is revolutionary, spirited, shaken and stirred” - SALENA GODDEN I believe it could be used as a teaching tool for where we have been, where we are and what tomorrow never knows. “Love and Let Die is a triumphant work of truth, heart and soul. A dazzling, daring, recondite and immensely readable pop culture critique” - STUART MACONIE
Humane, droll, wise, there is some brilliant apercu, revelation or connection on every page. It is that – and magnificently so – but it is also about class, art, masculinity, entitlement, politics, love, and death. “This is more than just a book about those two cultural colossi, The Beatles and Bond. This book is an excellent and oddly illuminating way to pass the time between installments” - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Both franchises will pump out the product for eternity. All things must pass, but Bond cannot die and the Beatles’ music still plays. “An often brilliant meander through the British male psyche, the place where Bond the well-bred assassin blends with the self-made moptops from Liverpool. “Brilliant” - FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, THE OBSERVER Looking at these touchstones in this new context will forever change how you see the Beatles, the James Bond films and six decades of British culture. Told over a period of sixty dramatic years, this is an account of how two outsized cultural monsters continue to define our aspirations and fantasies and the future we are building.
It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond, and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end. LOVE AND LET DIE is the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage.
For Britain to produce two on the same windy October afternoon is unprecedented.īond and the Beatles present us with opposing values, visions of Britain, and ideas about male identity. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day – Friday 5 October 1962. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been.
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