Our Hearts Went Boom , The Beatles invasion of Canada by Kendall , Brian - 1997

Toronto: Viking, 1997. STILL SEALED 1997 HARDCOVER book in dust Jacket ... BRAND NEW from 1997 publisher ... Never opened , Never marked . Still sealed in original publisher's shrinkwrap ; you'll be the first to unwrap it . Book size : 8-1/4" wide x 8-1/4" tall x 3/4" thick ; 200 pages illustrated with many historical black and white Photographs throughout . Excited Canadian youngsters lined up for as long as 73 hours in the cold & rain for tickets to the Beatles concerts in Vancouver, Toronto & Montreal . The countdown to B-Day, the day the Fab Four would finally land in Canada, continued with mounting urgency all that spring & summer of 1964 . Rock 'n Roll radio stations across the country played almost nothing but their music . No act in entertainment history had ever equalled the impact of the Beatles - not Frank Sinatra , not even Elvis Presley when he exploded on the scene several years before . Even Canada's famed media guru Marshall McLuhan jumped on the bandwagon ; McLuhan said " There is about them, something that is new & radical. They really do speak with the authority of the electronic age " . This book Our Hearts Went Boom tells the story of the Beatles' invasion of Canada in a lively anecdotal narrative and through an evocative selection of memorabilia and photographs culled from archives throughout the country . Included are the reminiscences of Trudy Medcalf , then president of Canada's largest Beatles fan club ; Paul White , the Capitol Canada record executive who had the foresight to sign the group months before his counterparts in the U.S. did ; ..... Red Robinson , the fame Vancouver hall of fame radio personality who hosted the show at Empire Stadium ... ( and who some fans dremember being told to ' get the f--- off the stage ' by an impatient John Lennon ) ... Michelle Finney ... the starlet from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC , who interviewed the Beatles backstage in Toronto .... and, of course, many of the fans who saw the Beatles concerts and who will never forget their adventures seeing the Liverpool lads . Rare and little-known history of the Beatles , including a very rare photo of John with Cynthian Lennon, who accompanied them on a trip to Toronto, anonymously, of course, and who wasn't even identified in the press photo , for fear John's fans would find out he was married and thus ruin the mystique . ... A beautiful book about those magic days ; in excellent untouched condition . This book is : " Our Hearts Went Boom - The Beatles' Invasion of Canada " by Brian Kendall , 1997 Hard cover book in dust jacket , published by Viking, Toronto, Still Sealed in original publisher's shrink wrap . *** Secure packing for Safe Shipping since 1965 *** . Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. New/New. Illus. by Photos. 8-1/4 x 8-1/4 x 3/4 ".