You can hear an intimate account of the band that changed pop music culture when the Ocean County Library’s Toms River branch hosts John Paul Groom’s presentation, “The Beatles: Success, Superstardom, and Separation,” on Wednesday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m.
Groom will explore the rise of Beatlemania on both sides of the Atlantic as he discusses their many albums and tours, entry into film, and rapid growth as creative songwriters who expanded the boundaries of popular music.
Born and raised in Liverpool, England, Groom attended the same high school as Paul McCartney and George Harrison; was…
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
