Brian Epstein: A Life from Beginning to End

The Beatles came onto the scene like a force of nature. Their songs became the anthems of generations of fans, and their emergence marked a high-water mark of popular music. But beyond the Beatles themselves, there is one man who can be credited with engineering this perfect maelstrom of musical majesty, and that man is former Beatles manager Brian Epstein.

Epstein discovered the Beatles at just the right time and then proceeded to pull just the right strings to gain them the recognition they deserved. Without Epstein’s efforts, the Beatles perhaps never would have moved much further beyond being local Liverpool heroes. Like Paul McCartney often said, “If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was Brian.” This book takes a look at the life that Brian Epstein led both before and after he discovered the Beatles, as well as the events that eventually led to his tragic death at age 32.