Sean MacLeod - Behind the Wall of Illusion

Sean MacLeod - Behind the Wall of Illusion
April 11

The Beatles brought colour, joy, freedom and love to a grey,
post-war world. But the most successful group in popular music
history also harboured hidden, sometimes darker worlds and
influences that are often downplayed by their biographers. In their
career, the Fab Four were to cross paths with many spiritual
movements, religious groups, esoteric philosophies and mystical
teachings. Inevitably, their thinking was affected by the ideas
they encountered. These ideas in turn helped shape their music and
– given their vast popularity – the public consciousness. Behind
the Wall of Illusion examines the spiritual inspirations that the
Beatles brought to the changing cultural landscape of the 1960s.
--- From the popularization of the new religion of rock ‘n’ roll,
Beatlemania (the ‘new Cult of Dionysus’) and John Lennon’s
explosive statement that the Beatles were ‘bigger than Jesus’, Sean
MacLeod takes us on a tour of Indian ashrams, questionable gurus
and hallucinatory drugs. He also studies the secreted ‘clues’ in
the Beatles’ album covers and films; the growing rumours that Paul
had been killed in a car crash and covertly replaced; and the
tragic assassination of John Lennon and the unknown perpetrators
behind the crime. This is an indispensable book for any lover of
the Beatles.

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