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As Time Goes By

Derek Taylor

What The Reviewers Say

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Based on 3 reviews

As Time Goes By

Derek Taylor

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Bob Stanley,
The Guardian
First published in 1972, now with an excellent introductory essay by Jon Savage, Derek Taylor’s As Time Goes By was the first, and remains the sharpest, memoir written by one of the Beatles’ inner circle.
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D.J. Taylor,
The Wall Street Journal
'Well,' he writes, 'being as how I brought Klein to Apple, by making sure the way was clear, I owe someone, somewhere something, that’s for sure.' That sentence gives a good idea of Taylor’s slightly tripped out, conversational and—it must be said—quintessentially 1960s style, in which judgment comes by way of situational incongruity and the humor is by turns wry, impressionistic, tongue-in-cheek, buried and laconic.
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John Harris,
The Guardian
Unlike most of the hotshots who were then establishing what we now know as the global PR industry, Taylor had one big advantage: he could write. And in the late 60s and early 70s, he snatched time to record opinions that would not quite cohere into a memoir, but still evoke his dazzling working life and the era in which it happened. In his sparse, lyrical prose style, there are echoes of Joan Didion, another writer born before the so-called Love Generation, but who wrote about its rise and fall with authority.