Steven Gaines Books

The national bestseller that Newsday called “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group,” from the author of All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words. In The Love You Make, Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—presents a complete look at the dramatic offstage odyssey of the four lads from Liverpool who established the greatest music phenomenon of the twentieth century. Written with the full cooperation of each of the group’s members and their intimates, this book tells the inside story of the music and the madness, the feuds and the drugs, the marriages and the affairs—from the greatest heights to the self-destructive depths of the Fab Four. In-depth and definitive, The Love You Make is an astonishing account of four men who transformed the way a whole generation of young people thought and lived. It reigns as the most comprehensive, revealing biography available of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Includes 32 pages of rare and revealing photos A Literary Guild® Alternate Selection

A quirky cast of eccentrics vies for a slice of the Hamptons--on land still inhabited by families that have farmed and fished the regions for generations.

For more than 20 years, Calvin Klein has been a fascinating and dazzling mystery. Now authors Gaines and Churcher combine the unreserved truth with genuine admiration to deliver an unforgettable portrait of America's most brilliant purveyor of style. 16 pages of photos.

Set in the decadent late 1970s Manhattan, this sequel serves as a sharp, satirical love letter to a bygone era. It explores themes of nostalgia and transformation through the lens of a unique home for wayward boys and girls, blending humor and poignancy. The narrative promises a rich tapestry of characters navigating a vibrant yet tumultuous cityscape, reflecting on the complexities of love and identity against the backdrop of societal change.

All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.

A stunning, revelatory new book about the final years of the Beatles based on extraordinarily frank, never-before-published or heard interviews with all the people involved, including George, Ringo, Paul and Yoko.