Taxman, Paperback Writer
Come Together Bruce Spizer: Taxman, Paperback Writer By E. Phelps Gay 322 February / March 2011 hen The Beatles arrived Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter and at John F. Kennedy Inter- Johnny Mercer, to name a few. When all national Airport in New the stories of their Liverpool childhoods, York City on Feb. 7, 1964, their happy or unhappy marriages, and Wthey were asked: “What do you think of their internal jealousies and dramas have Beethoven?” slipped from view, the music will be there, “Great,” Ringo responded. “Especially and it will live on. Their gift for melding his poems.” lyrics and melody, and their singular tal- And they were off. At the time, if you ents as singers and players, will bring joy were 11 years old (as I was) or 8 (as Bruce and pleasure to music lovers everywhere Spizer was), your world had already been and forever. rocked. Before the end of the year, no What does all this have to do with the fewer than six Beatles’ songs would climb Louisiana Bar Journal? Only that we to #1 on the Billboard charts: I Want to have among our ranks one lawyer who, Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Can’t when not practicing in the field of tax Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, A Hard Day’s and estate planning, writes books about Night and I Feel Fine. With due respect to The Beatles and knows more about them Elvis, whom The Beatles adored, he had than possibly anyone on the planet. So been completely eclipsed by the four lads minutely knowledgeable is this Beatles David (Bruce) Spizer from Liverpool.
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