1, 2, 3, 4: los Beatles marcando el tiempo

The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noël Coward despised them. J. R. R. Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. Leonard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them "sissies." John Updike compared them to the sun rising on an Easter morning. British prime ministers fawned over them. Vladimir Putin said that listening to them when he was young in the Soviet Union was "a breath of freedom." Bruce Springsteen stated: "I never wanted to meet the Beatles. I wanted to be the Beatles"... No one has remained unaware of their music. As Queen Elizabeth II observed at her golden wedding anniversary: "Think of what we would have missed if we had never listened to them." 1, 2, 3, 4: The Beatles Marking Time traces the fortuitous fusion of the four key elements that made up the group: fire (John Lennon), water (Paul McCartney), air (George Harrison) and earth (Ringo Starr). It also tells the strange and often unfortunate stories of the people who orbited the Fab Four, such as Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the quirky trickster "Magic" Alex, Phil Spector, the psychedelic dentist John Riley or Police Officer Norman Pilcher -his failed nemesis-, among many others.