Books by Ken McNab

2. Ken McNab, Shake It Up, Baby! The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963 .  At the beginning of that year, John and Paul despaired of making it as a rock band, and expected to end up as songwriters for other people, much like Goffin-King at the time.  By the end of the year however…  This is the story of how that happened.  Very well done.

2. Ken McNab, And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles xxx.  I regularly opine that sports and entertainment books — provided you already have familiarity with the topic area — provide better management lessons than do management books.  This volume, as I read it, presents the Beatles story as a tale of two sequential founders — first John (who had most of the early excellent songs), and then Paul, the turning point in my view being when Paul commandeered the engineering of “Tomorrow Never K...