Böcker av Ray Connolly

The intimate yet unsparing biography of the world's first and most iconic rock star.

On January 30, 1969, John Lennon ended the Beatles' filmed concert on the roof of their Apple headquarters in London by joking 'Thank you very much. We hope we passed the audition' It was the last time the four would be seen playing together.But what would have happened if six and a half years earlier, in the summer of 1962, the Beatles hadn't impressed at their all-important last chance to sign a record deal with Parlophone? What would the future have held for John, Paul, George and Ringo if producer George Martin had said 'No'? A 'what if' novella.

An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century.

The campaign of terror in London begins with a televised death-threat and climaxes in a spectacular, on-the-air takeover of capital radio. One man has been following the terrorists from the beginning. John Huckleston, one of their first victims, is also a top reporter after a hot story - and a lonely man, more than half in love with their seductive, ruthless woman leader. He will be with them at the death...

Kathy, a luscious Californian blonde, arrives in Paris looking for the gay life. There, she soon falls prey to the advances of the enigmatic Ille, an exotic Eastern beauty skilled in the sensual arts. A passionate romance develops. Together they share everything. But it is not long before they discover that the intensity of the relationship demands more than either girl alone can offer. They want desperately to be a family. They want a baby. So, ironically they need a man. A man who's willing to play their sexual-games and become their unsuspecting stud...Trick or Treat is a frank, outspoken novel about erotic game-playing and romantic taboos, but above all, it is a story of sinister sexual manipulation.