Kenneth Womack: Last News

Kenneth Womack told The Post. “Please Please Me was about to be their first No. 1 single [in the UK].

The Beatles’ longtime roadie, manager and general acquaintance, who featured prominently in Peter Jackson’s docuseries The Beatles: Get Back – have announced the publication of an authorised biography set to cover his storied life and career.HarperCollins’ Dey Street Books imprint will publish it in 2023, with Evans’ estate working closely with author Kenneth Womack – himself an accredited Beatles scholar and, per his own website, “one of the world’s leading authorities on The Beatles and their enduring cultural influence” – to tell his story in resounding detail.The biography, as yet untitled, will be followed in 2024 with a sprawling compendium of Evans’ personal archives, which Rolling Stone reports will feature diaries, manuscripts and

John Lennon biographer Kenneth Womack claims that the late Beatle would have given Donald Trump “hell” if he was still alive today.Lennon would have celebrated his 80th today (October 9). He was shot dead by Mark Chapman on December 8, 1980.“I see no reason why he wouldn’t still be here,” Womack, the author of John Lennon 1980: The Last Days In The Life, told The Mirror.“I think in a lot of ways he would have been like David Bowie, very moved by the internet.

Beatles scholar believes they have solved a decades-long mystery of the inspiration behind John Lennon‘s ‘Grow Old With Me’.The song was released a month before the legendary artist was shot dead in December 1980, and it was known to have been influenced by a film about baseball that Lennon saw during a visit to Bermuda earlier that year.Kenneth Womack told The Observer he had watched dozens of films before realising that the key inspiration was A Love Affair: The Eleanor And Lou Gehrig Story, a 1978 movie about a baseball player who died after battling a rare nervous system disorder.“I wanted to know what film had inspired him to compose such a beautiful song,” Womack explained.