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🌙🎸 Authors & Songwriters.
In the Shadows of The Beatles, we found each other.
A transatlantic love story, acclaimed by Mary Hopkin & Angie McCartney.
📖 www.shadowsofthebeatles.com
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**Tonight we drop “Holidays of Wonder” —
Gary’s childhood summers, steam trains, seaside magic…
and the day he unknowingly shared Margate Beach with The Beatles. 🌊🎸✨
Full episode premieres tonight.
Make sure you're subscribed so you don’t miss it:
👉 youtube.com/@shadowsofth...
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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🎬 “He wanted to touch music… but not like this.”
Our new short captures the moment a child’s curiosity collided with the magic of sound — and began a lifelong journey through song.

💿 Watch the short — then step into the full story:
➜ youtu.be/lTJAZ6M6Mg8
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November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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🎬 The Shadows of the Beatles Playlist is now live — the true story comes alive on screen.
New episodes every week from our memoir of love, music & destiny.

This Thursday: “Flash Over Penistone” ⚡
A haunting, beautiful chapter from our real lives.

👉 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
October 20, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Our book Shadows of the Beatles keeps finding new wings — and we’re so deeply grateful to Mary Hopkin for her beautiful words that helped it soar. 🌸
With love to Ruth & Angie McCartney, Eric Idle and Mike Read for sharing the love too.
🎬 youtube.com/@shadowsofthebeatles
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October 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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NEW EPISODE! Was it really THEM? Follow the clues on our latest YouTube video youtu.be/daOt0hGCPWk
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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I was ten years old when I looked out my window and saw two men singing under the streetlight.

Decades later, I realised who they might have been.

🎬 The Beatles at My Window — premieres tomorrow.
🔗 youtube.com/@shadowsofth...
BUY THE BOOK: shadowsofthebeatles.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🌟 Shadows of the Beatles 🌟
“Evocative and beautifully written.” — Mary Hopkin
“I loved the way you wove your stories.” — Angie McCartney (Paul’s step-mum)
Liked by Eric Idle, Mike Read, Les Dennis and Kate Rusby

📚 Book: mybook.to/ShadowsOfThe...

▶️ YouTube Series: youtube.com/@shadowsofth...
September 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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“Beautifully written and thoroughly enjoyable"
— Andrew, @parlogram.bsky.social
Thank you, Andrew, for this wonderful endorsement of Shadows of the Beatles.
Beatles friends @beatlespod.bsky.social @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social — we think you’ll love this journey too.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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September 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Shadows of the Beatles
A transatlantic memoir of love, music & mystery—
Liked & cheered by Eric Idle, Mike Read UK, Les Dennis, Kate Rusby
📚 Read & Listen
Kindle & Paperback ➡️ mybook.to/ShadowsOfThe...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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The Beatles are trending—perfect time to dive into the magic - and Paul's step Mom loves it!
Our memoir Shadows of the Beatles takes you from JFK’s Dallas to Miami sunlight—through every echo of Beatlemania.
📖 Paperback & Kindle (US & UK): mybook.to/ShadowsOfThe...
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September 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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💫 A Love Story Written in the Echo of a Revolution
Shadows of the Beatles follows two lives—Gary in Yorkshire, Val in Chicago/Miami—until music and destiny draw them together across oceans.
📖 Shadows of the Beatles
➡️ mybook.to/ShadowsOfTheBeatles
🌐 shadowsofthebeatles.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Not just a Beatles story — our story.
Love, loss, music, mystery, and the shadows of history.
Shadows of the Beatles — memoir + soundtrack 👉 shadowsofthebeatles.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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✨🦉 The night has wings. A little light, a little shadow… and a journey begins.
Our Gryffin Media logo has taken flight—and soon, so will our YouTube channel - based on our book!
Stories, mysteries, memories… all waiting just beyond the lamplight.
Stay tuned.
Buy our Memoir shadowsofthebeatles.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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When Val met Gary - From shadowsofthebeatles.com Check it out!
September 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Not just palm trees—CIA safehouses, Cold War shadows, whispers of Havana. My father vanished into it all. Spy? Scholar? Something else?
📖 Shadows of the Beatles a memoir of love, music & secrets.👉 mybook.to/ShadowsOfThe...
#BeatlesMemoir #ColdWar #MiamiHistory #Cuba1960 #EspionageHistory #TrueStory
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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💜 A huge thank you to the Faculty of Creative Writing for this beautiful review of Shadows of the Beatles.
🎶 “A lyrical, unforgettable memoir—part Beatles chronicle, part love story, part ghost story.”
We’re humbled & excited to share our story with the world 🌍
👉 shadowsofthebeatles.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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💔 The hardest words I ever had to write. The last chapter of Shadows of the Beatles.
A farewell to the man who shaped my life, and the love that carried me through the loss.
“Goodnight, Daddy. And still, I miss you every single day.”

📖 shadowsofthebeatles.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The hour before our meeting for the first time. shadowsofthebeatles.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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“The store fell oddly silent… ‘President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas, Texas…’”
An excerpt from Shadows of the Beatles: A Transatlantic Memoir of Love.
Where history and heartbreak meet memory, and one mother’s cry makes the past echo still.

#JFK #HistoryMatters

👉 shadowsofthebeatles.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🌙 In the Miami heat, he was just a beautiful stranger called Johnny - a pirate at heart.
A spark. A shimmer. A fleeting chord in the middle of a much larger song. 🎶
Not the ending—just part of the story.
Shadows of the Beatles is where the rest unfolds…
👉 mybook.to/ShadowsOfThe...
August 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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True story from Shadows of the Beatles ✨
“Val… you do know who that was, right?”
I didn’t.
“That’s Mike Skill from The Romantics.”
Dive into a memoir where music + fate collide.
👉BUY NOW on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0FHXW759K
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August 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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The Beatles Anthology is the legend—
but every legend has its shadows. 🌙🎸
Shadows of the Beatles is our memoir of love, memory & music
the perfect build-up to get in the mood NOW. 🚂🎶
👉https://amazon.com/dp/B0FHXW759K
#BeatlesAnthology #Beatles #Memoir
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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From our book shadowsofthebeatles.com . Yep, there is a few more revelations in there! definitely worth a read.
August 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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liked the way you wove your stories. I will be watching your progress and hope you achieve great sales.’
— Angie McCartney, Paul’s stepmother ❤️

We’re honored beyond words.
📖 Shadows of the Beatles is out now: shadowsofthebeatles.com #Beatles #Memoir #MusicHistory #PaulMcCartney #Books
August 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM