Title: The Roof Pdf The Beatles' Final Concert
Author: Ken Mansfield
Published Date: 2018-11-13
Page: 288
"Ken Mansfield and I unknowingly shared the experience of the famous Apple rooftop session. Ken was not only working for the Beatles through their heyday, he was also their trusted friend. There is no one better equipped to tell the Beatles' story truthfully—and more important—factually, from the inside." Author: Alan Parsons, Alan Parsons Project, Multi-Platinum producer and engineer to the Beatles/Pink Floyd"Ken Mansfield worked in our offices in London and we crashed at his pad in Hollywood. We all hit it off immediately and he became an instant member of the Apple team. Even the Beatles took to him straight away. He is one of the few insiders left that bore witness to the highs and lows of those insane days when we ruled the world." Author: Jack Oliver, former president, Apple Records (1969-1971)"Ken Mansfield brings us a new and closely personal perspective not only on the Beatles, but on a whole cast of characters. I lived through those Apple years with Ken and we became friends. It is a pleasure to experience so much of it all again through the accuracy of his storytelling and the clarity of his memory." Author: Peter Asher, Peter & Gordon/A&R chief, Apple Records/producer-manager (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King)"Ken has a unique gift. He can take you in the room and you sit with the folk he knows and make you one of the gang, part of the plan. And considering these folk include the Beatles, that is some doing. I respect the affection he has for our game, and what he brought to it will get you." Author: Andrew Loog Oldham, manager and producer, Rolling Stones Ken Mansfield has experienced a life that most people have only read about. He was in the heart and heat of the music industry when it was young and vibrant—back when creativity and passion made the music. A simple young man from the Indian reservation lands in Northern Idaho, Ken found himself propelled into the center of a Rock ‘n’ Roll whirlwind when as a Capitol Records executive the Beatles asked him to be the US Manager of their Apple Record label as well as acting as their personal liaison between the UK and the US. When the Beatles breakup seemed inevitable, he moved on to become a Vice President at MGM Records and then President of Barnaby Records a CBS label owned by Andy Williams. Wanting to fly even higher and faster, he left the corporate world to set up his own company, Hometown Productions Inc., where he produced famous artists of that era such as Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Don Ho, David Cassidy, Claudine Longet, Nick Gilder, The Flying Burrito Bros. and more. Ken is the author of six books including the top selling The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay (Broadman and Holman) and The White Book (Thomas Nelson). Other titles include, Between Wyomings (Thomas Nelson), Stumbling on Open Ground (Thomas Nelson), Rock and a Heart Place (Broadstreet) and Philco (Post Hill Press.) Ken now lives, loves and writes on the beautiful Florida gulf coast with his wife Connie.
HE WAS THERE! Apple Records former US manager Ken Mansfield takes a touching and comprehensive look back on one of Rock’n’Roll’s most significant events, while bringing an insider’s perspective to the days leading up to those 42 fascinating minutes of the Beatles monumental Rooftop Concert.
There are moments in time that cause us to stop and take notice of where we were and what we were doing when they happen in order to commit the experience to memory—how it made us feel, who was there with us, why it felt important. January 30, 1969 was one of those moments.
There are those who were on the periphery of the event that day and heard what was going on; but as one of the few remaining insiders who accompanied the Beatles up onto the cold windswept roof of the Apple building, Ken Mansfield had a front row seat to the full sensory experience of the moment and witnessed what turned out to be beginning of the end. Ken shares in The Roof: The Beatles Final Concert, the sense that something special was taking place before his eyes that would live on forever in the hearts and souls of millions.
As the US manager of Apple, Ken Mansfield was on the scene in the days, weeks, and months leading up to this monumental event. He shares his insights into the factors that brought them up onto that roof and why one of the greatest bands of all time left it all on that stage. Join Ken as he reflects on the relationships he built with the Fab Four and the Apple corps and what each player meant to this symphony of music history.
Touching memoir told as if to an intimate I just completed Ken Mansfield's "The Roof: The Beatle's Final Concert". It reads with the kind of honesty and sincerity of a friend recounting a special chapter in their lives. I found it open, funny, touching.In this case your hypothetical friend is telling the story about his time with the Beatles and in close proximity. Not as a girlfriend, a fellow musician, or a fan but as someone who had professional working responsibilities as well as comradery with these four idolized giants of music.One is more tested and, in effect, entitled when one is accountable in such high profile relationships and not simply a social friend or acquaintance. This perspective, in my opinion, brought me into the experience as a vicarious participant. You never know where life takes you until you get there. That's how Ken seems to tell his story and others at Apple. He clearly makes his story anyone's story as in "Had I been here or there at this time or that, I might have worked for The Beatles, I might have ended up on that rooftop."Ken is at once speaking to the reader and to himself at times. He seems amazed, nostalgic, moved and even self critical at times. And isn't this what most of us do later in life and rare times of our lives that have now passed. I felt I had lived just a little bit of that time thru Ken's expressed memories with real people who became The Beatles, unexpectedly, and knew they were on an adventure of "how about we try this now?" like any other young artists in motion.And if anything expresses how much he loved that group of cohabitants it is in his touching reflection on his friendship with Mal Evans. The piece on Mal near the end of the book is a place where you will read the clues that go backward thru the whole preceding narrative.So I would recommend reading this as an honest unburnished memoir by someone who was close to The Beatles et al, uniquely for a fleeting moment. Fleeting in a similar way as the moment The Beatles came and went as a group.A little bittersweet at times while also being funny and celebratory about a once in a lifetime (once in a century?) experience. The close of the story includes a moment of recorded self-discovery by the author, elements of which informed my own perspective on my life with its collection of experiences, albeit at a fair distance from "a day in the life" at Apple.There are plenty of books about The Beatles with facts, figures, biographies, lyrics, etc. These are all inevitable by-products of fascination, respect, honor, inspiration, obligations to posterity. But if I wanted to hang out with a glass of wine in front of a fireplace with an academic or fan versus a friend with personal reminiscences, I would choose the reminiscing friend every time.Excellent Memoir From Someone That Was Lucky To Be In the Right Place At The Right Time This is the first book of Ken's that I've read, but won't be the last. The writing style is engaging and fun. It provides a rare look into the people behind the Beatles that you so often see in the various pictures scurrying around the band (most clearly in the video documentary "Let It Be") while at the same time giving insight as to how the FAB Four interacted with each other and the people that keep the business running. I can't say I'd really care to read about just any Band's activities behind the scenes, but Ken does a great job of taking you into a world that most anyone would have loved to experience, but at the same time, come out realizing what a long and winding road it was. I was initially interested in learning about what happened that day on a roof top when one of the greatest show on Earth took place. I learned not only what I was interested in, but also some really interesting history about England, and how the various individuals that made up Apple fit together.One question I would have loved to ask Ken is, "Who is the individual that pops in an out of the 'Let It Be' video documentary that has the spitting image of Woody Allen?" He appears in various scenes on the roof top, specifically, when the British Police make there way onto the roof, and appears earlier in the film while the recording of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is filmed as providing the talent for the hammer "bang bang" sounds earlier in the video. Caught my attention and I was hoping there would be a clue in the book. :)Update: After reading the entire book, I believe the individual that is standing by the entrance to the roof and, as I said, looks (to me) like Woody Allen, is Mal Evans, Apple Executive. As I mentioned before, he can be seen in the "Let It Be" documentary film banging the hammer during the filming of the Beatles recording "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". I thought at first that Woody Allen was in the studio that day and always wondered if it was Woody Allen. So, although I am green with envy, I have believe I have found the answer. Now, if only Ken would confirm it is Mal :) Crazy I know, but putting together the history behind some of the 60's bands can be interesting. Ken's book is certainly a great book in my opinion!Update (2). I just read one of the review postings confirming my suspicions. I can now sleep :) Thanks to that individual (Ken?). As I said, this book is great and a fun read.FIVE STARS FOR A GREAT READ! Undoubtedly, the best book on the events surrounding the Rooftop concert! Ken takes the reader right to the "core of the Apple" with insights on everyone that was there in 68/69 and the very day that the Beatles performed. I loved every chapter and all the fresh insights-which i had never read before in any Beatle book. It's humorous and touching. Don't miss out on Ken's story- you will love it!
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