It Was 50 Years Ago Today: The Beatles During and After the Summer of Love – Talk by author Kenneth Womack
In this multimedia presentation, Ken Womack traces the band’s creative and personal reactions to the international onslaught associated with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Summer of Love.’
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Readings from Whatever Happened to Billy Shears by author Steven Goddard
After gaining a degree in theology, Steve recorded an album of his own songs Waiting for Goddard in the late 70s. In 1987 he moved from his home town of Croydon, Surrey to St Helens, Merseyside and established a public relations consultancy serving publishers, exhibition organisers and film productions.
He also worked as a sub-editor on the sports pages of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo and won a national Excellence in Marketing Award from the British Council of Shopping Centres for creating ‘Professor Prescot’ – a theme character promoting the Merseyside town of Prescot.
He was appointed director of communications for the Church of England Manchester in 2000 but returned to running his own PR consultancy in April 2002, joining forces with freelance writer and designer Simon Jenkins to create www.shipoffools.com – a web magazine and online community.
His first novel, Rattles and Rosettes, followed a fictitious Burnley fan on the club’s famous 1914 FA Cup run to the final at Crystal Palace. His second novel, Whatever Happened to Billy Shears?, will be published by Marylebone House on April 20.
In his spare time he sometimes pays tribute to a musical hero, bashing out the hits as Beltin’ John on a stage piano, in local pubs and clubs.
Maximum Volume: Producing the Beatles with Sir George Martin Talk by author Kenneth Womack
In this multimedia presentation, Ken Womack discusses Beatles producer George Martin’s signal role in defining the band’s artistic direction and its culmination with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Summer of Love.’
Author signings after these events
Event Date: Sunday 2nd July 2017
Categories: Accessible event | Free | Liverpool | Liverpool Library | Reading | Summer of Love
