When actress Eleanor Bron touched down at Heathrow with the Beatles, she thought that a flock of starlings had alighted on the roof of the terminal, only to discover that the birds were in fact young women screaming at the top of their lungs. Part anthropology and part memoir—winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and widely hailed as a Best Book of 2020—this witty, irresistible book from English columnist Craig Brown offers a kaleidoscopic examination of the Beatles' effect on the world, enriched by the recollections of everyone from Tom Hanks to Bruce Springsteen. It is a humorous, elegiac, at times madcap take on the Beatles' role in the making of the Sixties and of music as we know it.