Tales from the Fab Four

Montecito author Mark Brickley, who wrote the music biography Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories two years ago, has re-issued the book of Fab Four vignettes with five new chapters and two dozen new photos of the mop-topped rockers.

The book’s new edition includes a chapter on how to collect, grade and value classic Beatles vinyl records, and an interesting back story on how an unlikely 30-year-old British pop singer by the name of Engelbert Humperdinck, kept two of the group’s greatest singles from reaching the top of the 1967 U.K. charts.

Mark will be presenting a PowerPoint multi-media show, The Beatles Road To Stardom, on September 18 at the Montecito Library.

Having seen both the Beatles and Engelbert Humperdinck at the same venue, the ABC Northampton, in the ‘60s, it should make interesting viewing…