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The relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney was the dynamic centre of all that the Beatles did, of all they achieved as musicians and as cultural icons. Noted rock biographer Geoffrey Giuliano delves into the little-known details of John and Paul's friendship to reveal how what was happening in…

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1 author picked Two of Us as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was too young to really appreciate the Beatles when they stormed the world, but I learned to appreciate what they did to the culture of rock and pop.

The two mainstays, John and Paul, had such a volatile love/hate relationship and I never got into the story until I was gifted this book. As with most biographies, it opened a world of unknown truths about them, some truths that I really didn't want to know. But for the die-hard Beatles fan, you have to read this book.

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