Posted February 24, 200916 yr Beatles author denies Clifford claims Tuesday, February 24 2009, 12:02 GMT Digitalspy.com By Mayer Nissim The Beatles' only official biographer has denied the implication from Max Clifford that he had a key role in success of the band. Hunter Davies wrote to The Guardian following an interview with the publicist. He claimed that Clifford's work at EMI would have amounted to shifting handouts about all acts on the label from 1962 and 1963. Davies said: "I have about 500 Beatles books, plus about 2,000 magazines, programmes and articles about the Beatles, yet I have not read one reference in them to Mr Clifford's contribution. "During the '60s, I was with The Beatles for 18 months, working on their authorised biography, and from none of them, or from Brian Epstein, did I hear the words 'Thank God for Max, we would not have done it otherwise'. "The real publicity work on the Beatles was done by Epstein himself, who, from as early as 1961, had a full-time publicist (Tony Barrow) working on The Beatles. "The truth, of course, is that no PR person made them. They made themselves." The official website for Clifford's public relations company states: "Next stop was the EMI records press office in 1962, where practically his first assignment was to promote an unknown band from Liverpool called The Beatles. The rest is history..." Are you surprised by this or not?
February 25, 200916 yr Author Her was the reply: The Beatles and me * The Guardian, Wednesday 25 February 2009 I have always described my working relationship with the Beatles in the same way that I do in my own biography, published in 2005 (Letters, 23 February). I've made my position clear to anyone and everyone that's ever asked me about this, no matter whether it was media or public. I was just very lucky to be at the right place at the right time and of course their success was only down to themselves, with a lot of help initially from Brian Epstein. I quote from page 48 of Read All About It, which I co-wrote with Angela Levin. "'My part in their success story was nonexistent', Max admits. 'But their part in mine was huge. They became famous so quickly that almost from the start journalists wanted to talk to them and in those very early days they all had to come through me at the EMI press office.'" I hope Hunter Davies's biographies are more accurate then his references to me, and trust that he enjoys and benefits from the publicity he has achieved by misrepresenting me. Max Clifford London
February 25, 200916 yr If, and its a big if, he was there he probably just answered the phones. And made the tea possibly. But to be honest I have never heard him being associated with them in any way whatsoever. Sounds like he's trying to gain some credibility from them, since he's just a bloodsucker by day and a total twat at night.
March 1, 200916 yr Author If, and its a big if, he was there he probably just answered the phones. And made the tea possibly. But to be honest I have never heard him being associated with them in any way whatsoever. Sounds like he's trying to gain some credibility from them, since he's just a bloodsucker by day and a total twat at night. That is exactly my thoughts.
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