The Longest Cocktail Party
An Insider Account of The Beatles & the Wild Rise and Fall of Their Multi-Million Dollar Apple Empire
[The Beatles] By Richard DiLello
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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.
Contents
| Title | |
| Part One | |
| 1968 | |
| The English at Work and Play | |
| 1 The House Hippie | |
| 2 More Money Than God | |
| 3 "Who?" | |
| "The Man Who Designed the Apple Label." | |
| "Who?" | |
| "You Know, Michelangelo, the Guy Who Painted the Mona Lisa." | |
| 4 The Declaration of Innocence | |
| 5 Who's Who in the Zoo: Some of the Players | |
| 6 Pre-Apple Apple | |
| 7 The Fun Begins | |
| 8 Derek Taylor of the Hoylake and West Kirby Advertiser | |
| 9 The Early Days of a Record Company's Struggle to Reach the Top; The Acquisition of Apple Talent | |
| 10 The Fun Continues | |
| 11 You Learn Something New Every Day | |
| 12 A Hot Breeze in July | |
| 13 For a Penny You Can Buy a Book of Matches and Set Yourself on Fire | |
| 14 "Because I Don't Love the Queen But I Do Love Yoko." | |
| 15 The Lamps Go On | |
| 16 LSD Conditions and Beautifies Troubled Hair in Seconds | |
| 17 Diamonds in the Rough | |
| 18 Back at the Sandbox | |
| 19 If It Looks Good, Buy It! | |
| 20 Once Around the Piazza, Driver! | |
| 21 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 22 Progress Report | |
| 23 The Black Room 24 The Pineapple Archives | |
| 25 Art Is Long, Life Is Short, Judgment Difficult, Opportunity Fleeting | |
| 26 Fact | |
| 27 There Has Got to Be More Than Love to This | |
| 28 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 29 Repertoire Entendre | |
| 30 Intermezzo | |
| 31 Like Brinsley Schwartz over Troubled Waters | |
| 32 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 33 The Women in Black | |
| 34 Double White | |
| 35 Double White Again | |
| 36 Popular Photography for Fun and Profit | |
| 37 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 38 Play the Album Cover and Throw the Record Away; Beatle Demystification | |
| 39 The Procession of the Papparazzi | |
| 40 A Double-Decker Ace Blue Meanie | |
| 41 News Items | |
| 42 Samantha | |
| 43 A Well-Stocked Cupboard | |
| 44 And Don't Forget to Light a Candle for Me When I'm Gone | |
| 45 A Ghost from the Past | |
| 46 "When We Do Right, No One Remembers When We Do Wrong, No One Forgets" | |
| 47 Our Motto: Pleasure Before Business | |
| 48 Lost a Son But Gained a Daughter | |
| 49 100 Easy Street | |
| 50 The Battle for the Largest Turkey in Great Britain | |
| Part Two | |
| 1969 | |
| "Hey, Man, How Do I Get in Touch with Ringo Starr?" | |
| 51 Call Me Up in Reno | |
| 52 Will You Love Me in Walla Walla Like You Did in Sing Sing? | |
| 53 Good-Bye My Fiji Island Baby | |
| 54 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 55 Chopped Liver, Wherever You're Going, I'm Going Your Way | |
| 56 Jack the Ripper-Offer Strikes Again | |
| 57 What's Shakin'? | |
| 58 Where? | |
| 59 Can You Spare a Sixpence for a Steak Dinner? | |
| 60 While You Were Out . . . | |
| 61 In the Name of the Father (John Lennon) and of the Son (John Lennon) and of the Holy Ghost (John Lennon) Amen | |
| 62 The Laughter, the Heartache, and the Pulse-Pounding Excitement of the Golden Age of Scottish Gorbals Rock-White Trout---Fresh Daily! | |
| 63 The Bright Lights of Savile Row | |
| 64 Fact | |
| 65 The Titanic Passing the Andrea Doria in the Night | |
| 66 And Now It Is Our Pleasure to Announce This Year's Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature | |
| 67 Showdown! | |
| 68 Some People Will Believe Anything | |
| 69 Where Progress Is Never Our Most Important Product | |
| 70 Business as Usual | |
| 71 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 72 Qwert | |
| 73 In Which the Truth Is Revealed in the Hard Light of Day | |
| 74 Let It Bleep | |
| 75 Introducing | |
| 76 Mary Hopkin at the General Post Office Tower and a Barrel for Beatle John | |
| 77 In Order to Comply with Accepted Community Standards | |
| 78 Bad Timing and Who's Been Reading Oliver Twist? | |
| 79 No, No, a Thousand Times No! | |
| 80 There Is Still No Truth to the Rumor that Paul McCartney of the Beatles Will . . . | |
| 81 A Triple-Decker Ace Blue Meanie | |
| 82 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 83 The Amsterdam Bed-In | |
| 84 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 85 There's a Hot Dog Stand on the Corner of the United States of America and It's Calling Me Back Home | |
| 86 Allen Klein and the Deoppilation of Apple | |
| 87 It's a Great Place to Get Stoned But I Wouldn't Want to Work There | |
| 88 Further Details Available from Apple / Regent 8232 | |
| 89 Toreador, Don't Spit on the Floor | |
| 90 John and Yoko Forever! | |
| 91 Jesse James, the Famous Train Robber, Said: "I'm Gonna Rob All Your Women and Rape All Your Men!" A Startled Victim Protested: "Jesse, Aren't You a Bit Confused? Shouldn't It Be the Other Way Around?" One of Jesse's Henchmen Lisped: "You Leave Jesse Al | |
| 92 Ten Pounds a Week and All You Can Steal | |
| 93 A Galaxy of Stars | |
| 94 A Good Spot of PR for John and Yoko | |
| 95 Rumble in the Cathedral | |
| 96 Join Apple and See the World / The Montreal-Bahamas Bed-In | |
| 97 How Green Was Our Valley | |
| 98 The House of the Open Door | |
| 99 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 100 Say Please | |
| 101 Give Peace a Chance | |
| 102 "Listen, If You Can Get the Papers Drawn up Real Quick I've Got Someone Who Is Ready to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge" | |
| 103 The Salvatore Guliano Commando Unit of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Reggio Calabria and the Sundance Kid | |
| 104 Press Office Release | |
| 105 Screwed Again | |
| 106 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 107 Play It Again | |
| 108 Conspectus | |
| 109 The Pulse-Pounding Excitement of the Golden Age of Scottish Gorbals Rock Continues | |
| 110 Wait Till You Hear This One! | |
| 111 With Love and All Good Wishes | |
| 112 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 113 Bad News and Wildcat Publicity | |
| 114 Give Us Our Daily Sponge | |
| 115 This Grisly Rumor Receives "The Press Offices of the World Award" for Being the Biggest Pain in the Ass of 1969 | |
| 116 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 117 The Last of the Sundance Kid | |
| 118 Bombshell | |
| 119 Look Who's Talking Now! | |
| 120 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 121 But Who Murdered Britain? | |
| 122 Arrivederci 1969 | |
| Part Three | |
| 1970 | |
| "We Do Not Wish to Add Any More to the Dialogue Already in the Media" | |
| 123 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 124 Roller Coaster | |
| 125 The Flame Flickers | |
| 126 Sentimental Journey | |
| 127 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 128 When Sophia Loren Was Asked About the Similarity Between Her Looks and Those of Gina Lollobrigida, She Replied, "It Is Like the Difference Between a Fine Race Horse and a Donkey But I'm Not Saying Who Is What" | |
| 129 Dialogue / Dialogue / Dialogue | |
| 130 From Apple | |
| 131 John and Pablo | |
| 132 The Flame Flickers Some More | |
| 133 Let's Go to the Moving Pictures | |
| 134 Three Little Indians Sitting on a Fence | |
| 135 And Then There Were Two | |
| 136 The New Press Officer Gets It On | |
| 137 A Swan Singing a Song Flew Past the Press-Office Window and No One Even Noticed | |
| 138 Oops! | |
| 139 The End | |
| 140 News Item | |
| Part Four | |
| 1971 | |
| Silence in the Court Till the Judge Blows His Nose | |
| 141 The Last Chapter / La Rêve N'est Pas Finie! | |
| Appendix I | |
| Appendix II | |
| Appendix III | |
| Appendix IV | |
| About the Author |
Additional Information
| Artist: | The Beatles |
| Author: | Richard DiLello |
| Format: | Paperback Book |
| Page Count: | 376 |
| Item Number: | 00-42714 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1517-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1517-8 |
| UPC: | 038081482910 |
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