Kieran McGovern

Writer of graded readers (OUP, Macmillan, Penguin) Brief Lives: ( & Beatles FAQ (

[Kieran McGovern @eslreading]

Just been declared 'a top writer in Music' on Medium. To read more, visit and follow my undefined profile: https://t.co/E97MQvpVx9 Presume I'm now listed here: https://t.co/kSijo3CWyx

[Kieran McGovern @eslreading]

@girlsurge Abbey Road was released before but Let It Be but recorded after. Get Back covers the the recording of Let It Be so watching that first makes sense.

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@dcsandbrook I adapted Dorian Gray for Penguin. It’s remarkable but there are longeurs - luckily for me as I had to shorten it! Plus openly gay - can’t see how it could have been read in any other way.

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@MaryKenny4 Fabulous, Mary. As my ten-week old granddaughter has just started smiling I’m especially responsive. 🙏

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Roll Over Beethoven - one of the few rock lyrics to merit a place in the songbook. And Chuck an amazing performer - but promoters needed to make sure that brown envelope contained every last cent. If not would walk off, mid song.

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Happy Birthday Clint Eastwood, rock on! Your movies are still better than 90% of what they’re putting out these days.

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I published “The Filth and the Fury” on @Medium https://t.co/jwGodkg027

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@t0mbstoneblues Will walk on stage with an acoustic guitar, strum the chords to Blowing in the Wind, smile and say, ‘Remember this one, guys.’

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“The first Beatle in America” Six months before the Ed Sullivan Show, George Harrison visited his sister in Benton, Illinois. @thebeatles @BeatlesTweets @FabFourFacts @BeatlesArchive2 @BeatlesEarth @BeatlesClub_JP @BooksBeatles https://t.co/M3YC3on3NA

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@KillVStardust @SovernNation @DeclanHyland They all helped each other - but George did show Ringo how to complete Octopus. He was brilliant at identifying additional elements (guitar breaks etc) that often made a key difference.

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@SovernNation @DeclanHyland (Wrong imo) - as was his referring to it as ‘Lennon-McCartney)

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@SovernNation @DeclanHyland Plus co-credits, and key contributions to other songs: see here: https://t.co/WYfSxXeHOr George wrote several fine songs but perhaps his inflated in the fall out from the break up. Sinatra (who hated the Beatles) called Something ‘the greatest love song’

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@DeclanHyland Would that we all could be such ‘weak’ songwriters: https://t.co/WYfSxXeHOr

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@patrickxwest Wifedom completely misreads Orwell’s relationship with Eileen. I write about his here: https://t.co/H4v93CZcVt

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I published “Miles in Madrid - eyewitness account of an infamous gig” on @Medium https://t.co/TqW3QsFV1K

[Kieran McGovern @eslreading]

I published “Perhaps some judicious audio editing would be handy - dialling the volume down from eleven, for a…” on @Medium https://t.co/TtTVn2qQAk

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I published “This feels strangely time constricted to me.” on @Medium https://t.co/LZCvKQUALv

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@MaryKenny4 Yes but it’s so long! Bennett foolishly boasted about being paid by the word and his reputation has suffered.

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@girlsurge I think they just didn’t pay attention to lyrics. It became the centerpiece of the Ringo Spot in their live act but they weren’t consciously trying to make a statement.

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@dnarbecurb @BeatlemaniaUK Yes, puzzled by this. The line Paul takes on Man on the Run is that he didn’t realise that she could sing until the post-Beatles period. (and before any cheap gags her voice harmonizes well with Paul’s)

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@BeatlemaniaUK False. Pretty sure Cynthia beat her to the punch on back up vocals for Hey Jude. Pattie also sang on Birthday https://t.co/ghfmV3HL8Z