Beatles - The Beatles in America: the 50th anniversary

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: The Beatles prepare to take Manhattan, 1965. KEN REGAN / CAMERA5

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JONATHAN GOULD , a former studio drummer, spent 17 years writing (excerpted), which was published in 2007.

CAROL BEDFORD was one of the hard-core Beatles fans who used to congregate outside the offices of Apple Corpsan Apple scruff, in George Harrisons term. Her memoir, , was published in 1984.

Before co-founding Ms. magazine in 1972, GLORIA STEINEM wrote for a variety of publications, including Cosmopolitan, which in December 1964 published her .

Music journalist CHRIS HUTCHINS helped engineer the 1965 meeting between the Beatles and Elvis Presley, and then wrote about it in in 1994 with his colleague PETER THOMPSON .

STEVE TURNER , a biographer of Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye and Johnny Cash, has also written extensively on rock n roll and religion, including in , published in 2006.

JON WIENER teaches 20th-century history at the University of California-Irvine. His six books include , published in 1984.

ED SANDERS , a poet, singer, activist and member of the legendary avant-garde band the Fugs, published , the first authoritative account of Charles Mansons criminal life, in 1971.

MARC FISHER has been a reporter, columnist and editor at the Washington Post. His book , published in 2007, describes the role of radio in postwar American culture.

ROBIN DENSELOW covers both music and politics for the Guardian. His book , published in 1989, ranges from the McCarthy era forward and from the United States to Europe to Africa.

MIKAL GILMORE is a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone. His account of appears in Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents, published in 2008.

PETER DOGGETT has written several books on music and cultural history. His narrative of the aftermath of John Lennons death opens his book , published in 2009.

LESTER BANGS (1948-1982) was one of the most influential rock critics of his generation, writing for Rolling Stone, Creem, the Village Voice and other publications. His assessment of John Lennons legacy appeared in the on December 14, 1980.

ROBERT SANTELLI , who for this publication, is the executive director of the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and the author of books on Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Woody Guthrie, among other musicians.

JON WILDE has written for a wide variety of magazines in both the U.S. and the U.K. His first appeared in the British music magazine Uncut in 2004.

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