Description: Did you know that there’s a Beatles monument in Kazakhstan? Jack Marriott didn’t, and he thought he knew everything there was to know about the storied band from Liverpool, England. He did some investigating and found that there were Beatles monuments, statues, and shrines all around the world, from Brazil to Mongolia, Peru to Japan.

Verdict: Meanwhile, his life in England was quickly deteriorating into drunkenness, the staff of his bar having walked out and his girlfriend having left him. So he did what anyone would do: borrowed a press pass and set off on a two-year quest through 23 countries, relying on the kindness of fellow fans to help him find these Beatles monuments and connect with the communities that built them.

His goal: to find new stories about the Beatles, win back his girlfriend, and remind an increasingly insular post-Brexit Britain what the Beatles mean to the world. He just needed to push through the hangovers to do it. How hard could it be?

Thus, here in the truly innovative and highly fascinating new book Beatles Blackouts: Trips Around the World in Search of Beatles Monuments, we find out just how hard it actually was in this real-life account of one man’s quest to find every Beatles monument.

From the very off, this book reads like a personal journal from a man who, at least at the beginning, seems like one of the most unlikeliest would-be authors you could ever put your faith in to bring together any amount of entertaining, let alone coherent and cohesive prose (on any subject).

Yet here in Beatles Blackouts, a title that you will get to soon realize is as aptly-named as most any other book you might have read beforehand, author Jack Marriott weaves his magical mystery tour as perfectly, as seamlessly, and as profoundly as the most elegant of seamstresses.

Also containing a plethora of black and white photos, hand drawn pictures and other informative visuals, in all my days having scoured throughout and over many Beatles books (for whatever reason), this one stands loud and proud, tall and towering as the stand out go-to for such a most delicious, and undersold of Beatles subject matters to date.

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